From nitin.gizare at wipro.com  Thu Jan  1 02:08:33 2009
From: nitin.gizare at wipro.com (nitin.gizare at wipro.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:38:33 +0530
Subject: Power consumation information
Message-ID: <8068EA5DFF3D964CB9B957236985862B0A597398@BLR-EC-MBX06.wipro.com>

HI



WISHING ALL SUN LOVERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR !



As u might be aware of Green IT as part of this activity we need to
calculate  power consummation for  models E450 , E250 , V880r  many
other models of SPARC

I would like know how can we calculate same , Do we have any ready made
information about this,



Rgds

Nitin




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From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Fri Jan  2 00:30:02 2009
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Fri,  2 Jan 2009 00:30:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Message-ID: <20090102053002.2D6E759C08D@apps0.cs.toronto.edu>

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                    SunManagers Frequently Asked Questions

   This is collection of common questions posted to the sunmanagers
   mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System
   Managers and reduce traffic to the list by providing quick answers to
   common problems. Keeping with the style of a similar FAQ for
   comp.windows.x, questions marked with a '+' indicate questions new to
   this issue; those with significant changes of content since the last
   issue are marked by '*'

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

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

                                   Questions

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

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

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

   4. Window Systems
   4.1) + What Window system GUIs are supported by Sun?

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

   6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning
   6.1) How do I tell what caused my machine to crash?
   6.2) What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs?
   6.3) How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has? 
   6.4) How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How
   can I tell if I need more memory? 
   6.5) Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied? Why
   are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?

   7. HTTP and Anonymous FTP
   7.1) * How do I set up anonymous ftp on my machine?
   7.2) + Where can I get a Web server for Solaris?

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

   9. Sun models and OS Versions
   9.1) * Which Sun models run which version of SunOS? 
   9.2) How can my program tell what model Sun it is running on? 
   9.3) How do I find out a Sun's boot prom revision?
   9.4) * Which hardware/software is capable of 64-bit? Which is only
   64-bit? How can I tell which is running?

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

   11. Miscellaneous Hardware
   11.1) * How come my mouse occasionally doesn't work?
   11.2) How can I turn my old sun into an X-Terminal?
   11.3) * How can I use an SVGA monitor on my Sun?
   11.4) Where can I find alternate pointing devices for my Sun?

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

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

   14. Printing
   14.1) + How do I get started with LP-style printing in Solaris?
   14.2) How do I configure a non-postscript printer for postscript?

   15. Misc System Administration 
   15.1) I've forgotten the root password; how can I recover? 
   15.2) How do I disable/remap STOP-A/L1-A?
   15.3) How do I manage services in Solaris 10 and later? Do I still
   make links in /etc/rc*.d?

                                    Answers
     _________________________________________________________________

   1. The Sun-Manager's Mailing list
     _________________________________________________________________

   1.1) How do I read, join, post to, or remove myself from the
   sunmanagers mailing list?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Solaris on Intel-based (x86) machines
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/
   Old list archives at: http://www.egroups.com/list/solarisonintel/

   Auspex: managers of Auspex NFS file servers
   auspex-request at princeton.edu - add/remove requests
   auspex at princeton.edu - submissions

   Solbourne: managers of Solbourne SPARC systems "info-solbourne" list
   majordomo at acsu.buffalo.edu - add/remove requests
   info-solbourne at acsu.buffalo.edu - submissions
   ftp://ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu/pub/misc/info-solbourne.tar.z archives

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

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

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

   For Web pages, see the answer to question 2.4.
     _________________________________________________________________

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

  <mailto:sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org?subject=unsubscribe>
  List-Archive: <http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/>
     _________________________________________________________________

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

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

   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 <Casper dot Dik at Holland dot Sun
   dot COM>. 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 <meltzer at villagenet dot
   com> 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 <ead at ixian dot com> suggests the BigAdmin site run by
   Sun, at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin

   Alan Pae <alanpae at ilkda dot com> 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:  <enter old passwd>
        Please enter the login password for root:       <enter new passwd>
        {root}5%

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

   4) Change the system's /etc/.rootkey:
        {root}5% keylogin -r
        Password:                               <enter new passwd>
        Wrote secret key into /etc/.rootkey
        {root}6%

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

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

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

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

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

   To change the keys for the root master server do as follows:
  1. use these commands in this order:

         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. groups_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. domain.name.

         (This CLEARS the public key for the HOST "master.server.name" in this
  directory.)

  2. Kill rpc.nisd and restart it at security level O then run this command:

         nistbladm -R cname=master.server.name. cred.org_dir.domain.name.
         nisaddcred des

         <This deletes the old credential and creates a new one.>

  3. Shutdown and restart any replicas of org_dir.domain.name. at run level O

         nisping org_dir.domain.name.

  <This propogates the new key pair to the replicas.>

         nisdupdkeys domain.name.
         nisupddkeys org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys groups_dir.domain.name.

         <This puts the new credential in the effected directory objects.>

  4. Kill and restart all rpc.nisd servers at level O to security level 2.

   Note that changing a server's key affects all directory objects
   containing the key.

   Thanks to Rogerio Rocha <rogerio at bvl dot pt> 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 <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */
        char *dgettext(domainname, msgid)
        char *domainname;
        char *msgid;
        { return(msgid); }

        void *dlopen(pathname, mode)
        char *pathname;
        int mode;
        { return((void *)NULL); }

        void *dlsym(handle, name)
        void *handle;
        char *name;
        { return((void *)NULL); }

        char *dlerror()
        { return(NULL); }

        int dlclose(handle)
        void *handle;
        { return(0); }
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   4. Window Systems
     _________________________________________________________________

   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.
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   5. Disks, Tapes and SCSI
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   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.
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   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.
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   5.3) Is it okay to disconnect or connect SCSI devices while powered
   on?

   On older machines (without onboard SCSI controllers), it is never a
   good idea to do this. You risk blowing a fuse on the CPU board, or
   part of the SCSI hardware. On newer machines (sparcstations and
   later), many people have done this regularly without problems. Halt
   the machine (sync;L1-A), remove or add the device, then continue.
   However, it is possible to blow the SCSI termination power fuse on the
   motherboard. If your machine hangs immediately on powerup unless the
   SCSI bus is externally terminated, this fuse may need to be replaced.
   Caveat Emptor.
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   5.4) How do I configure my sun to use Exabyte 4mm DAT tape drives?

   Add the following to /kernel/drv/st.conf:
    tape-config-list =
      "EXABYTE EXB-4200", "Exabyte 4mm EXB-4200", "EXBT-4200",
      "EXABYTE EXB-4200c", "Exabyte 4mm EXB-4200c", "EXBT-4200c"

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

   Exabyte also recommends that their 4mm tape drives have firmware
   revision levels of at least the following when used on suns:
     * EXB-4200 No restriction, but revision 148 or higher is recommended
     * EXB-4200c Level 149 minimum (mode select for compression)

   Thanks to Dave Hightower <hightowr at afwc dot af dot mil>.
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   5.5) Why is tagged queueing a problem on my third-party disk?

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

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

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

   set scsi_options & ~0x80

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

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

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

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

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

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

   For more information about third-party CD-ROMS on Suns, consult the
   CD-ROM FAQ, maintained by Mike Frisch <mfrisch at saturn dot tlug dot
   org> and Martin Hargreaves <martin at datamodl dot demon dot co dot
   uk>. It can be found on the World Wide Web at
   ""http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq". A UK mirror is available at
   ""http://www.datamodl.demon.co.uk/suncd/".
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   5.7) What size and density parameters should I use for ufsdump with a
   high-capacity tape drive?

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

   Thanks to Niall O Broin <nobroin at esoc dot esa dot de>
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   5.8) My floppy/cdrom device says "device busy". What do I do?

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

   If you need to access a floppy or CD-ROM special device, however, you
   may need to turn off the volume manager. As root, type
   "/etc/init.d/volmgt stop". To turn it back on, type
   "/etc/init.d/volmgt start".
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   5.9) What software is available for CD-R/CD-RW?

   Commercial Software:

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

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

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

   Thanks to Mark Belanger <mjb at ltx dot com>
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   5.10) Where is my disk space? The "du" and "df" commands disagree.

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

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

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

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

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

   Brian Poole <raj at cerias dot purdue dot edu> writes:
           Another possible cause of df & du disagreeing is if the files are
           being 'hidden' under a mount.  I ran into this recently where I
           had a large number of files in /tmp (from adding patches in single
           user mode) that were on the root partition.  Thus when I was
           looking for them in multiuser mode, I couldn't find them because
           of the tmpfs overlay. I exported the root partition via NFS and
           upon mounting it found the hidden files and deleted them.
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   6. Resource Management and Performance Tuning
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   6.1) How do I tell what caused my machine to crash?

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

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

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

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

   Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs dot toronto dot edu>
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   6.2) What can I do if my machine slows to a crawl or just hangs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Use the L1-A sequence to crash the system. If you are on an older
   system, type "g0" and you will get the message "panic: ... syncing
   file systems". When you see the word "done", hit L1-A again and
   reboot. On systems with the "new" prom, type "n" to get into the new
   command mode and type "sync".
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   6.3) How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has?

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

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

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

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

   A perl script "memconf" is also available that identifies the sizes
   and locations of SIMM/DIMM memory modules installed in a Sun system.
   It also works on several SPARC clones and with Sun Explorer data. It
   is maintained by Tom Schmidt <tschmidt at micron dot com>. Download
   memconf from http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html
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   6.4) How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How
   can I tell if I need more memory?

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

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

   An easy way to determine whether or not your machine needs more memory
   is to run vmstat and examine the po (page out) column and the sr (scan
   rate) column. If these columns consistently show large numbers, this
   suggests that your machine does not have enough memory to support its
   current workload, and frequently needs to write pages belonging to
   active processes to disk in order to free up enough memory to run the
   current job.
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   6.5) Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied? Why
   are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?

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

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

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

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

   GNU tar has an "-S" option which preserves holes, and Joerg
   Schilling's "star" has "-sparse" and "-force_hole" options which can
   be used to preserve and re-insert holes, respectively. star is
   available for download at ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star
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   7. HTTP and Anonymous FTP
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   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".
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   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.
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   8. Consoles, Keyboards and Key Remapping
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   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 <marg at manila dot cc dot columbia dot
   edu>
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   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 <marg at manila dot cc dot columbia dot edu> suggests
   editing $OPENWINHOME/etc/keytables/US5.kt. There are two places where
   keys 119 (CapsLock) and 76 (Control) should be swapped: the MODMAP
   section and the KEYSYMMAP section. The latter is most important,
   because that's where the "Pseudo-Lock" function (which controls the
   locking behaviour of the key) is defined.

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

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

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

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

   Thanks to Dan Pritts <danno at ans dot net> 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 <harvey at mdacorporation dot com >
     _________________________________________________________________

   9. Sun models and OS Versions
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   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 <mcooper at magnicomp dot com>
   "sysinfo" program, which provides all sorts of information about a
   given system, including the machine type. sysinfo is available on the
   web at http://www.magnicomp.com/, although it is now a commercial
   product that is free only for educational and non-profit
   organizations.
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   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 <mcooper at magnicomp dot com>
   "sysinfo" program, which provides all sorts of information about a
   given system, including the prom revision. sysinfo is available on the
   web at http://www.magnicomp.com, although it is now a commercial
   product that is free only for educational and non-profit
   organizations.
     _________________________________________________________________

   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/<platform-name>/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 <Eric dot Boutilier at Sun dot COM>

   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
   <kevin at inscoe dot org>
     _________________________________________________________________

   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 <anders at hmi dot de> points out that LAOLA (a Perl4
   package that can read Word6 and Word7 format is available on the web
   at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/.

   Another option (suggested by Thomas <tunixlists at gmail dot com>) 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 '/^\///' <abspath.tar

   Or you can use chroot and a statically linked version of tar, as
   follows:
        cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp/restore
        # cd /tmp/restore
        # cat abspath.tar | chroot /tmp/restore /tar xf -

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

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

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

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

   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 <swhitby at legato dot com>
     _________________________________________________________________

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

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

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

   Thanks to Stuart Whitby <swhitby at legato dot com>
     _________________________________________________________________

   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 <andreas at apsfilter dot org> for
   this information.

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

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

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

   PROM passwords:

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

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

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

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

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

    /* Enable or disable abort sequence.  John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/ioctl.h>
    #include <sys/fcntl.h>
    #ifdef FILENAME_MAX
    #include <sys/kbd.h>
    #include <sys/kbio.h>
    #else /* !FILENAME_MAX */
    #include <sundev/kbd.h>
    #include <sundev/kbio.h>
    #endif /* !FILENAME_MAX */

    #define ERR -1
    #define DISABLE 0
    #define ENABLE 1
    #define KEYBOARD "/dev/kbd"

    main(argc,argv)
    int argc;
    char *argv[];
    {
            static struct kiockey k;
            int fd, mode=ERR;

            if(2==argc){
                    switch(*(argv[1])){
                    case 'e':
                            mode=ENABLE;
                            break;
                    case 'd':
                            mode=DISABLE;
                            break;
                    }
            }
            if(ERR==mode){
                     printf("Usage: %s [enable|disable]\n", argv[0]); exit(1);
            }
            if(0>(fd=open(KEYBOARD, O_RDWR))){ perror(KEYBOARD); exit(1); }

            k.kio_tablemask = KIOCABORT1;
            k.kio_station=mode;
            (void)ioctl(fd, KIOCSETKEY, &k);
            printf("Abort sequence is now %s.\n", mode?"enabled":"disabled");
    }

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

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

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

   set abort_enable=0

   into /etc/system, and rebooting.

   Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs dot toronto dot edu>
     _________________________________________________________________

   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] <FMRI>". 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] <FMRI>". 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 <FMRI>"

   As an alternative to using "ps" to check service processes, you can
   now use "svcs -p <FMRI>" 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 <neil at quiogue dot com>

From pg at the-wire.com  Fri Jan  2 10:26:24 2009
From: pg at the-wire.com (Paul Gotter)
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:26:24 -0500
Subject: Solaris 10: sar - keeping logs past 10 days
Message-ID: <20090102102624.20411rh3pzqtx2xs@webmail.the-wire.com>

Hello,

I currently have sar enabled on a Solaris 10 server, using the default  
entries in user sys's crontab.  Is there any way to retain more than  
10 days of data in /var/adm/saXX?

Is there a config file I can edit so that I can retain 30 days worth  
of sar info?

Thanks.


Paul

From Rob.Brown at ioko.com  Sat Jan  3 17:41:17 2009
From: Rob.Brown at ioko.com (Rob Brown)
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:41:17 -0000
Subject: Static URL for SXCE
Message-ID: <69BDA7A26D2FA04C9228F8607181553C09FD4716@intyodc01.uk.ioko365.com>

Hi,

I want to have a server automatcally built with that latest solaris express edition.  Its easy to do if there was a static URL for downloading the current ISO.  Does anyone know if there is URL that you could use wget to download it?


Rob

From sengork at gmail.com  Mon Jan  5 02:53:09 2009
From: sengork at gmail.com (Sengor)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:53:09 +1100
Subject: WWNNs and WWPNs
Message-ID: <8417e52e0901042353x4f84688r5c7ebce780aea0e3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi colleagues,

Let's assume I've got a single HBA card with 2 fibre ports on it (in
this case Emulex card). From what I've understood World Wide Port
Names on such a card should be different and World Wide Node Name
shold be the same according to the theoretical rules.

# luxadm -e dump_map /devices/pci at 15d,600000/SUNW,emlxs at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
Pos Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN Node WWN Type
.....
3 1f0027 0 10000000c95d21eb 20000000c95d21eb 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host
Bus Adapter)

# luxadm -e dump_map /devices/pci at 15d,600000/SUNW,emlxs at 1,1/fp at 0,0:devctl
Pos Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN Node WWN Type
.....
3 b0055 0 10000000c95d21ec 20000000c95d21ec 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host Bus Adapter)

Does anyone know why the WWN Node numbers are different on the
physically same card?
Is this a Solaris driver issue or the manufacturer has not followed
the theoretical standard of WWN Node being the same on each port of
the same physical card?

-- 
sengork

From kev.smith at rbs.com  Mon Jan  5 07:16:44 2009
From: kev.smith at rbs.com (kev.smith at rbs.com)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:16:44 +0000
Subject: pro's / con's of multi-terabyte filesystems
Message-ID: <B9288174DCC97D43855CD6E05DA2148A03FB0792F0@LONMC01028.rbsres07.net>

All,

I am looking into the pro's and con's of say a 5tb filesystem for example [for
Oracle archive logs] against a bunch of smaller [Say 1TB filesystems]
utilizing Solaris 10 and VxVM & VxFS 5
I'd appeciate peoples comments on each solution including whether a large FS
is a good idea or not.

Thanks in advance

Kev Smith




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From: kev.smith at rbs.com (kev.smith at rbs.com)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:03:25 +0000
Subject: pro's / con's of multi-terabyte filesystems - Summary
In-Reply-To: <496225BD.3030309@pitt.edu>
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Thanks to George Cebulka, Damir Delija, Rachel Polanskis, Stan Horwitz, Joe
Fletcher [ Hello Joe(ex citi) ! ] for their informative responses which
included:

Comments on ZFS' useability for large filesystems and the use of RAIDz,
caveat's for UFS [logging, restoreability ETC]. Various mount caveats for
i-node allocation over 1TB etc.
Informative Reading :
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/ac5fb46
07ab7677b/488c46f504793e76

>> Given that the exisiting volume is a 1TB EMC/VxVM BCV braid we will be
going to a 2TB VXFS Filesystem rather than 2 x 1TB Filesystem's.

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From gloomtin at gmail.com  Mon Jan  5 16:13:55 2009
From: gloomtin at gmail.com (Tim Longo)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:13:55 -0500
Subject: Possible error
Message-ID: <fce404c20901051313h4fdec379q857056f7cc6eb2ce@mail.gmail.com>

When I open the front "doors" on my 220R systems, I see that to the right of
each disk drive, I see a green light. One 220R system has an orange light.
I've checked logs, dmesg, and prtdiag but see no errors. Also, the orange
warning light below the green power indicator is *not* illuminated.

Any suggestions as to why these two disk indicators might be orange?

From Crist.Clark at globalstar.com  Mon Jan  5 20:34:06 2009
From: Crist.Clark at globalstar.com (Crist Clark)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:34:06 -0800
Subject: ARP Reply is Broadcast on Solaris 10
Message-ID: <4962448B.33E4.0097.0@globalstar.com>

Finally getting around to asking about some weird stuff
we've seen on our network for ages. We have Solaris systems
sending out ARP replies to the Ethernet broadcast address,
but having a normal Ethernet unicast address as the hardware
target address. Here is an example,

ETHER:  ----- Ether Header -----
ETHER:
ETHER:  Packet 3 arrived at 17:07:29.92988
ETHER:  Packet size = 42 bytes
ETHER:  Destination = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, (broadcast)
ETHER:  Source      = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a,
ETHER:  Ethertype = 0806 (ARP)
ETHER:
ARP:  ----- ARP/RARP Frame -----
ARP:
ARP:  Hardware type = 1 (Ethernet (10Mb))
ARP:  Protocol type = 0800 (IP)
ARP:  Length of hardware address = 6 bytes
ARP:  Length of protocol address = 4 bytes
ARP:  Opcode 2 (ARP Reply)
ARP:  Sender's hardware address = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a
ARP:  Sender's protocol address = 207.88.152.92, 207.88.152.92
ARP:  Target hardware address = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7
ARP:  Target protocol address = 207.88.152.55, 207.88.152.55
ARP:

(That's "snoop -rv" output.) This is in response to a normal
ARP request from the other host. The other host sends another
ARP request after the above goes out, and this one then
responds normally,

ETHER:  ----- Ether Header -----
ETHER:
ETHER:  Packet 4 arrived at 17:07:29.99135
ETHER:  Packet size = 42 bytes
ETHER:  Destination = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7, Sun
ETHER:  Source      = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a,
ETHER:  Ethertype = 0806 (ARP)
ETHER:
ARP:  ----- ARP/RARP Frame -----
ARP:
ARP:  Hardware type = 1 (Ethernet (10Mb))
ARP:  Protocol type = 0800 (IP)
ARP:  Length of hardware address = 6 bytes
ARP:  Length of protocol address = 4 bytes
ARP:  Opcode 2 (ARP Reply)
ARP:  Sender's hardware address = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a
ARP:  Sender's protocol address = 207.88.152.92, 207.88.152.92
ARP:  Target hardware address = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7
ARP:  Target protocol address = 207.88.152.55, 207.88.152.55
ARP:

The handful of hosts that do this are all Solaris 10. Is this
some "feature?" If so, how do I turn it off? Is there a patch
for this if it is a bug? My Google and SunSolve-fu are not
finding anything on this today.

From computing at bookscape.co.uk  Tue Jan  6 06:23:59 2009
From: computing at bookscape.co.uk (Computing)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:23:59 -0000
Subject: Sun Cluster 3.2.2 Apache HA failure, or cludge? 
Message-ID: <008f01c96ff1$468b8540$42e0a69d@DELL>

               2 related problems on the same Apache cluster:


               [Problem 1:]
               clsetup error:  ERROR: Failed to get connection to node 
localhost
               SunOS netra1 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4u sparc 
SUNW,UltraAX-i2
               lo0: 
flags=2001000848<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
                    inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
               lo0:1: 
flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 
1
                    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000


               [Problem 2:]
                       2 node cluster running Apache 2.0.63
                       nslookup ApacheOnlyFailoverHostName_1 (answer) 
10.10.10.250
                       eri0:1: 
flags=1040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 
2
                               inet 10.10.10.250 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 
10.10.10.255

               clresourcegroup show OnlyCluster-harg
                         Resource Group: 
OnlyCluster-harg
                         RG_description: 
<NULL>
                         RG_mode: 
Failover
                         RG_state: 
Unmanaged
                         Failback: 
False
                         Nodelist: 
netra3 netra1



               [Long description] (An apache failover workaround functions.)
               Having natively only eri0/1 I have used lo0 as my second 
private adapter and
               aliased lo0:1 as 127.0.0.1 but clsetup will not connect to 
the aliased interface.
                   Scdsbuilder packaged an apache GDS with apachectl 
stop/start. All works fine
               on the logicalhostname addressed to 10.10.10.250 fails over 
perfectly well from node2
               to node1. (ie apache failover does work.)
                     But, (and it's a big but,) I believe in truth I only 
have a failover ipaddress.
               At each boot sequence: Apache Listen 10.10.10.250 port 80, 
only works on node1 if I
               delay /etc/rc3.d/S90apache for three minutes until failover 
ipaddress 10.10.10.250
               is "configured/up/available", else apache dies "could not 
locate ipaddress"
                     And, apache will only work on node2 if I configure 
apache Listen *.80 (listen any)
               Effectively what I've done is configure a failover ip 
10.10.10.250 which works perfectly
               between the two hosts, failing backwards and forwards. But 
apache, on the other hand
               must be "workarounded" or "bodged" to fail backwards and 
forwards, but at the cost
               of adding cludges to my /etc/rc3.d scripts, (and cludging one 
httpd.conf to listen any)
                     Ideally I would have liked to add the apache service 
using clsetup. But it
               won't add an apache service on my setup.

               Given this scenario, is there a more elegant way of getting 
my apache to failover?
               Or have I done the best possible job given my constraints and 
circumstances?


 Andrew

From gchien5k at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  6 09:10:58 2009
From: gchien5k at yahoo.com (Jim Goh)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:10:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: type of on-board system clock for T5120 ?
Message-ID: <291063.1951.qm@web52901.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi,
 
I have been asked a specific question regarding the T5120 System Clock.  What
kind of on-board clock does T5120's have?
 
We are just looking to project clock stability. Does any one know the
manufacturer part number of the clock?
 
Thanks for your help!

From gloomtin at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 09:24:30 2009
From: gloomtin at gmail.com (Tim Longo)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:24:30 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Possible error
Message-ID: <fce404c20901060624w3154814fqa59b06a6a9e049cf@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you very much to all that replied.

Everyone suggested that I run iostat -e.

This revealed a small number of soft errors on the second disk in the system
(mirrored with svm). I plan to replace that disk and see if the led's turn
green.


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Tim Longo <gloomtin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> When I open the front "doors" on my 220R systems, I see that to the right
> of each disk drive, I see a green light. One 220R system has an orange
> light. I've checked logs, dmesg, and prtdiag but see no errors. Also, the
> orange warning light below the green power indicator is *not* illuminated.
>
> Any suggestions as to why these two disk indicators might be orange?

From angelommsousa at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 09:19:34 2009
From: angelommsousa at gmail.com (Angelo Sousa)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:19:34 +0000
Subject: sar question
Message-ID: <a87fb66a0901060619t7a77db1cwedf205a6ac625257@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gurus,

I have to use SAR em my machine with Solaris 8

SunOS Machine_name 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

:# sar -u
sar: not found

:# which sar
no sar in /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin



But it seems that is not installed by default with operative system (
strange ), I already try to download the package at sunfreeware.

How can install/get sar in my system ?

Thanks in advance


Regards;
AS

From oussama.babasaci at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 01:54:22 2009
From: oussama.babasaci at gmail.com (oussama baba saci)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:54:22 +0100
Subject: Sun Storedge 3510 FC secondary controller failure detected
Message-ID: <a03327820901052254s3f4b96f0i628c32acbbe0c585@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gurus,
We just installed a new SE 3510FC with redundant controllers connected
to a Sun Fire V440, the primary controller parameters are as follow:
caching parameters
Write-back cache enabled
optimization for sequential I/O
Fiber connection option: loop only
We created one logical device RAID 5 stripe size 64k, and two
partitions, We mapped each partition to both HBA on the Sun fire
server.
We installed STMS and configure it for both HBA with auto-failback,
and load balancing enabled
We mount the partitions on the server. and all worked fine.
We tested the storage by copying medium size that worked fine.
We did heavy copy (40 GB), an alert is sent:   "Redundant Controller
failure detected" and the controller LED is amber.
your help is appreciated
Regards

From Crist.Clark at globalstar.com  Tue Jan  6 17:46:26 2009
From: Crist.Clark at globalstar.com (Crist Clark)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:46:26 -0800
Subject: UPDATE: ARP Reply is Broadcast on Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <4962448B.33E4.0097.0@globalstar.com>
References: <4962448B.33E4.0097.0@globalstar.com>
Message-ID: <49636EBE.33E4.0097.0@globalstar.com>

I've only had one response, but it's had an interesting outcome.
The respondent was kind enough to check to see if he was seeing
any of this on his networks, and whaddya know, he's seeing this
exact same thing from a variety of Solaris 10 systems, both
Sparc and x86. It's not something particular to my environment.

Are your servers generating this weird traffic too? Here's a
snoop command line that only will catch this strange stuff.
Seeing it from anything besides Solaris 10 boxes? See any
thing that the machines have in common besides the OS?

snoop -vr 'arp and ether[20:2] == 2 and ether dst host ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff'

I'd like to know if you're seeing this too.

On 1/5/2009 at 5:34 PM, "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark at globalstar.com> wrote:
> Finally getting around to asking about some weird stuff
> we've seen on our network for ages. We have Solaris systems
> sending out ARP replies to the Ethernet broadcast address,
> but having a normal Ethernet unicast address as the hardware
> target address. Here is an example,
>
> ETHER:  ----- Ether Header -----
> ETHER:
> ETHER:  Packet 3 arrived at 17:07:29.92988
> ETHER:  Packet size = 42 bytes
> ETHER:  Destination = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, (broadcast)
> ETHER:  Source      = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a,
> ETHER:  Ethertype = 0806 (ARP)
> ETHER:
> ARP:  ----- ARP/RARP Frame -----
> ARP:
> ARP:  Hardware type = 1 (Ethernet (10Mb))
> ARP:  Protocol type = 0800 (IP)
> ARP:  Length of hardware address = 6 bytes
> ARP:  Length of protocol address = 4 bytes
> ARP:  Opcode 2 (ARP Reply)
> ARP:  Sender's hardware address = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a
> ARP:  Sender's protocol address = 207.88.152.92, 207.88.152.92
> ARP:  Target hardware address = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7
> ARP:  Target protocol address = 207.88.152.55, 207.88.152.55
> ARP:
>
> (That's "snoop -rv" output.) This is in response to a normal
> ARP request from the other host. The other host sends another
> ARP request after the above goes out, and this one then
> responds normally,
>
> ETHER:  ----- Ether Header -----
> ETHER:
> ETHER:  Packet 4 arrived at 17:07:29.99135
> ETHER:  Packet size = 42 bytes
> ETHER:  Destination = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7, Sun
> ETHER:  Source      = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a,
> ETHER:  Ethertype = 0806 (ARP)
> ETHER:
> ARP:  ----- ARP/RARP Frame -----
> ARP:
> ARP:  Hardware type = 1 (Ethernet (10Mb))
> ARP:  Protocol type = 0800 (IP)
> ARP:  Length of hardware address = 6 bytes
> ARP:  Length of protocol address = 4 bytes
> ARP:  Opcode 2 (ARP Reply)
> ARP:  Sender's hardware address = 0:14:4f:b0:ce:8a
> ARP:  Sender's protocol address = 207.88.152.92, 207.88.152.92
> ARP:  Target hardware address = 8:0:20:b3:14:e7
> ARP:  Target protocol address = 207.88.152.55, 207.88.152.55
> ARP:

From rumbiles at yahoo.com  Wed Jan  7 06:40:09 2009
From: rumbiles at yahoo.com (rumbidzayi gadhula)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:40:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Disk Failure on StorageTek Array
Message-ID: <638455.14229.qm@web54401.mail.yahoo.com>

Good day

I have a StorageTek D173 Array connected to a Sunfire E4800. We use VVM 4.1 to manage the array.
One of the hard disks failed (this is a simple concatenation array). One of the disks has failed and we need to remove it (not replace it) without losing any of the data that is currently sitting there. is this possible? If it is how can one achieve this. If not what are the alternatives?

I need a walk-through of the procedures as I am not very hands-on with Veritas Volume Management.

I will summarise.

TIA
Rumbi

From Ajay.Gupta at fly.virgin.com  Wed Jan  7 09:41:43 2009
From: Ajay.Gupta at fly.virgin.com (Ajay.Gupta at fly.virgin.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:41:43 +0000
Subject: Time problem
Message-ID: <OFAAC259AA.F3A05E14-ON80257537.00507314-80257537.0050BB1F@fly.virgin.com>

Hi Gurus,

I have noticed a peculiar problem with one of the important servers.

Problem: Time is automatically changing after every hour. When the server
reaches a particular hour say 11.00 then times automatically goes back one
hour back i.e 10.00 instead of 11.00. The server is using NTP server, which
is behaving normally. We have tried stopping NTP also however the problem
is still persisting.

OS : Solaris 8
Platform : sun fire 6800

Any help would be highly valued.

Thank you
Ajay
                                    
                                    
                                    



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From: Ajay.Gupta at fly.virgin.com (Ajay.Gupta at fly.virgin.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:31:19 +0000
Subject: Time problem (Summary)
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From esteban.rosas at syc.com.mx  Wed Jan  7 14:35:54 2009
From: esteban.rosas at syc.com.mx (Esteban Rosas)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:35:54 -0800
Subject: SunFire T2000
Message-ID: <4965041A.5020406@syc.com.mx>

Greetings from Mexico City...

Anyone knows if a SunFire T2000 supports ISCSI addapters?, I look into 
the sun website and there's no information about it

TIA

From ifetch at du.edu  Wed Jan  7 22:36:16 2009
From: ifetch at du.edu (Ivan Fetch)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:36:16 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Preference for Apache, PHP, and Tomcat packages for Sol10?
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072034010.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>

Hello Sun Managers,


    I'm curious what folks tend to use for new production installations of 
Apache, PHP, and Tomcat.  We're about to re-organize some existing 
installations, and deploy some new ones, and would like to make a sound 
decision as to which packages we standardize on.


    There are packages available from Sun Freeware (www.sunfreeware.com), the 
Sun Companion DVD (also now put together by Sun Freeware), the packages which 
are installed along with Sol10 (SUNWapch* packages), Blastwave 
(www.blastwave.org, seems particularly out of date), and Sun's Cool Stack 
(cooltools.sunsource.net). There's also creating one's packages, which we've 
still not wanted to do as an institution, and, perhaps other sources of 
packages I'm not aware of.


    I'm again evaluating these package maintainers' timeliness creating new 
packages after security updates, and flexibility (E.G. we use PHP with LDAP 
support, are PHP extensions available as add-on packages?).


    I'd very much appreciate hearing insight from others' experiences - what do 
you tend to use for new installations, how have you found the upgrade / patch 
process, have you recently switched from one set of packages to another, and 
why?


    Thank you as always, for your time!

- Ivan

From ifetch at du.edu  Wed Jan  7 22:50:56 2009
From: ifetch at du.edu (Ivan Fetch)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:50:56 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Climbing CKSUM errors after zpool online
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072040020.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>

Hello Sun Managers,


    We've been working on a weird ZFS issue, and not getting very far with 
Sun.

    We needed to relocate a storage array, so "zpool offlined" the second 
half of mirrors on multiple machines.  Once the array was back online, and 
we verified the LUNs were seen in the OS, we did "zpool online" for each 
of the previously offlined LUNs.

    The first LUN took about 35 minutes to resilver, and the mirror was 
fine; no errors in "zpool status."  Subsequent mirrors reported resilver 
completed in a matter of seconds, and we got quite a few CKSUM errors (in 
one case, a few thousand in 12 hours), but no read or write errors.

    We're experiencing this idential issue on three boxes so far, a 
couple of them are:

5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T2000

5.10 Generic_127111-06 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200


    Sun's answer is to "Just upgrade the kernel, a lot of ZFS bugs have 
been fixed, but only upgrade to 137137-06 as later kernels will introduce 
other ZFS issues."

    We ended up detaching, then re-attaching the second leg of the mirrors, 
and all of them resilvered and do not have CKSUM errors. We will probably 
end up doing this on our remaining ZFS boxes but would like to match our 
symptoms with a particular bug / resolution / patch, and have more 
complete answers.

    I've found a few simelar cases on the ZFS Discuss list, but no 
resolutions there.


    Has anyone else run into this issue?


Thanks,

Ivan.


---
Ivan Fetch
University of Denver
Computer Operations, University Technology Services
303-871-3092

From pablo.jejcic at gmail.com  Thu Jan  8 05:22:28 2009
From: pablo.jejcic at gmail.com (Pablo Jejcic)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:22:28 +0000
Subject: USB on Soalris 10 and a T5220
Message-ID: <dc0f55190901080222u1c1249darcccab988433c4392@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Guys,
I'm planning to plug a 1TB USB 2 external disk to a T5220 with Solaris 10.
Has anyone try this? Do you foresee any issues?

Cheers!
-- Pablo

Joan Crawford  - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I
earn, I spend."

From opensource at unixoses.com  Thu Jan  8 15:16:57 2009
From: opensource at unixoses.com (Paul)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:16:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: How to go from console to sc prompt on rsc card?
Message-ID: <2697.12.32.10.83.1231445817.squirrel@outsideventure.com>

Tried "#." but does not work.  It just takes it as input for cosole login.
 Any ideas?  This is on an rsc card on an 890.  Thanks.

From opensource at unixoses.com  Thu Jan  8 15:43:30 2009
From: opensource at unixoses.com (Paul)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:43:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: How to go from console to sc prompt on rsc card?
Message-ID: <4558.12.32.10.83.1231447410.squirrel@outsideventure.com>

On Thu, January 8, 2009 3:16 pm, Paul wrote:
> Tried "#." but does not work.  It just takes it as input for cosole login.
>  Any ideas?  This is on an rsc card on an 890.  Thanks.

Some ideas were:

~. (This is the same sequence for the Cyclades term serv, so just bails out)

enter, then #. (This just gives more input to the console login)

And someone asked me why use "#.", Cause that's what google searches keep
pointing to.

So if the ~. is the answer, I really don't know how that can work, cause
that's usually the escape out of a term server.

Any more ideas?  Thanks.

From opensource at unixoses.com  Thu Jan  8 16:34:17 2009
From: opensource at unixoses.com (Paul)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:34:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: How to go from console to sc prompt on rsc card?
In-Reply-To: <4558.12.32.10.83.1231447410.squirrel@outsideventure.com>
References: <4558.12.32.10.83.1231447410.squirrel@outsideventure.com>
Message-ID: <1492.12.32.10.83.1231450457.squirrel@outsideventure.com>

On Thu, January 8, 2009 3:43 pm, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, January 8, 2009 3:16 pm, Paul wrote:
>> Tried "#." but does not work.  It just takes it as input for cosole
>> login.
>>  Any ideas?  This is on an rsc card on an 890.  Thanks.
>
> Some ideas were:
>
> ~. (This is the same sequence for the Cyclades term serv, so just bails
> out)
>
> enter, then #. (This just gives more input to the console login)
>
> And someone asked me why use "#.", Cause that's what google searches keep
> pointing to.
>
> So if the ~. is the answer, I really don't know how that can work, cause
> that's usually the escape out of a term server.
>
> Any more ideas?  Thanks.

Never mind, I stumbled on it.  Did "~~." (exluding quotes) and was
successful.  Just needed one more tildi.

From warren.liang at cox.net  Thu Jan  8 18:30:03 2009
From: warren.liang at cox.net (Warren Liang)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:30:03 -0500
Subject: Boot faliure
Message-ID: <20090108183003.7JEG0.497465.imail@fed1rmwml36>

Hello:
After building a X1 box from a flar archive. boot failed with the following:
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 or /usr, no such file or directory
/sbin/rcS: /usr/bin/loadkeys: not found
WARNING: /proc could not be mounted
/sbin/swapadd: expr: not found
WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found.  Most likely the
mount of /usr failed or the /usr filesystem is badly
damaged.  The system is being halted.  Either reinstall
the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt
to recover.

I boot of jumpstart server and fsck all partitions on c0t2d0 without any error. The flar archive is an image of an identical X1 box.
Thanks in advance.
Warren

From rumbiles at yahoo.com  Fri Jan  9 06:47:54 2009
From: rumbiles at yahoo.com (rumbidzayi gadhula)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 03:47:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Summary: Disk Failure on StorageTek Array
In-Reply-To: <d2559e080901070611q3bf33f73ybc13201e8ca6c8ee@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <746907.1440.qm@web54406.mail.yahoo.com>

I decided to rebuild the array since the data was non-recoverable.
I initialised the disks using SANtricity, labelled the disk in Solaris, added the array under VxVM control and created the required volumes.

From warren.liang at cox.net  Fri Jan  9 14:37:16 2009
From: warren.liang at cox.net (Warren Liang)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:37:16 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: boot failure
Message-ID: <20090109143716.KLOVF.520548.imail@fed1rmwml38>

Hello:
When building the box from a flar archivefile, the client boot disk is different than the one on flar archive. It makes the build like a cloniing. I need to build a new /dev, /devices, and /etc/path_to_inst.
ok> boot net -s
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /a
# cd /tmp/dev
# tar cvfp - . | (cd /a/dev; tar xvfp -)
...
# cd /tmp/devices
# tar cvfp - . | cd /a/devices; tar xvfp -)
...
# cp /tmp/root/etc/path_to_inst /a/etc/path_to_inst
ok> boot disk2 -r

Thanks.
Warren

Original posting:
After build a X1 box by flash archive file, boot fails:
ok> boot disk2
...
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 or /usr, no such file or directory
/sbin/rcS: /usr/bin/loadkeys: not found
WARNING: /proc could not be mounted
/sbin/swapadd: expr: not found

WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found.  Most likely the
mount of /usr failed or the /usr filesystem is badly
damaged.  The system is being halted.  Either reinstall
the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt
to recover.

From drewsk at gmail.com  Fri Jan  9 15:41:12 2009
From: drewsk at gmail.com (Drew Skinner)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:41:12 -0500
Subject: Query regarding VCS / Solaris 10
Message-ID: <85b33c090901091241s65c814f7j3001ce64d162c97@mail.gmail.com>

Hi;

Been quite a while since I sent a note here. Anyway, wondering if anyone
with experience in VCS (multiple versions) might be able to send some
insight.

Background:  I need to implement a monitoring script that will produce
output & be sent to a collection of different monitoring pieces (software,
queues, etc). I'm no stranger to this.

What I'd like to do is implement monitoring of groups and resources within
Veritas Cluster and Sun Cluster. This is mostly Solaris 10, some 9, and may
involve zones. No biggie.
scstat (Sun Cluster) provides me with usable information. hastatus always
hangs.

My goal is output such as:

Check 1

Online  <group / resource /etc>
Online
Offline

Check 2

Offline
Online
Online

Any change to hastatus or scstat would produce an alert ticket to be
investigated. Now, problem is hastatus always hangs.

I've tried all of the following:  hastatus;  hastatus -sys `uname -n`;
hastatus -sound  (etc).  All hang.  hastatus -sum does *not* hang, but
there's insufficient output for me to work with.

>From Symantec there's a suggestion to adjust /etc/rc2.d/S92gab to include
"-n 2" (where 2 is # systems) or to seed gab with -x.  I've checked
/etc/gabtab and it is seeded correctly there. The suggestion from Symantec
is also quite old (Ver 1.x of VCS)

Is there any way I can read the output (line by line) and transfer to a text
file, then killing hastatus after ~ 6-7 secs, while capturing the
line-by-line output?

Note I administer 1000+ government systems and cannot reboot with changes to
/etc/rc2.d (etc) as all HA systems are that for a reason.

Any help appreciated and I will summarize.

Thanks,


Drew.

From phil_socal at yahoo.com  Fri Jan  9 17:11:21 2009
From: phil_socal at yahoo.com (Phil)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:11:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: MPXIO and symmetrix- not MPXIO-ing?
Message-ID: <791424.95074.qm@web30208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all-

I have a T6320 w/ supported qlogic cards SAN'd to a CX and a
symmetrix.
running: SunOS blade6 5.10 Generic_137111-06 sun4v sparc
SUNW,Sun-Blade-T6320 (I believe this is 05/08)

we see multiple paths to each
CX disk via MPXIO (took the disks from C1 and C2, made them a C3 with multiple
paths displayed w/ mpathadm list lu)

However, MPXIO doesn't multipath the
disks on the symmetrix. The disks show up as 2 paths on each controller C1 and
C2.

what am I missing here? 

yes, I've done "reboot -- -r"

thanks for
helping out an mpxio n00b.

-Phil

From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Sat Jan 10 00:30:01 2009
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:30:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers
Message-ID: <20090110053002.0459759C08D@apps0.cs.toronto.edu>

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From arvindhonline at gmail.com  Sat Jan 10 05:52:49 2009
From: arvindhonline at gmail.com (arvindh l)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:22:49 +0530
Subject: Sun server (E4500) booting with errors
Message-ID: <f0aa0d20901100252y51b29d3ay1a651a254e288688@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

One of my Sun 4500 server is attached to a disk array with 12 disks.And when
i boot the machine it successfully boots up but it shows lot of errors.The
errors are as follows.

8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500, No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.2.29, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #12535731.
Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved
Ethernet address 8:0:20:bf:47:b3, Host ID: 80bf47b3.



Rebooting with command: boot vx-rootdiskc1t0
Boot device: /sbus at 6,0/QLGC,isp at 2,10000/sd at 0,0:a  File and args:
sd seek 0 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 200 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35be1 40
returns 40
returns 0
invalid command
Loading ufs-file-system  package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.
sd seek 0 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 2000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35bf0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35c20 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
invalid command
Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise/ufsboot
sd seek 0 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 2000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35bf0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35c20 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 301a000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dcb0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 301a000 0 returns 0
sd seek 42ee000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c57350 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 302a000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dd30 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 302a000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4304000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c57400 40
returns 40
returns 0
invalid command
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
sd seek 0 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 2000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35bf0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35c20 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 301a000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dcb0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 301a000 0 returns 0
sd seek 42ee000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c57350 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 302e000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dd50 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 302e000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4518000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c584a0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 3034000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dd80 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 3034000 0 returns 0
sd seek 3034000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b84000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c5b800 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 4b86000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b88000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b8a000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b8c000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c5b840 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 4b8e000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b90000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b92000 0 returns 0
sd seek 4b94000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c5b880 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 3d5a400 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c546b2 40
returns 40
returns 0
invalid command
sd seek 0 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 2000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c35bf0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 8000 0 returns 0
sd seek fe000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c363d0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 301a000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dcb0 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 42ee000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c57350 40
returns 40
returns 0
sd seek 302a000 0 sd read-blocks ffad0000 c4dd30 40
returns 40
---truncated--
.
:
:

Failed to configure IPv4 interface(s): hme3
Hostname: mercury
NOTICE: VxVM vxdmp V-5-0-34 added disk array DISKS, datype = Disk

Jan 10 10:20:06 vxvm:vxconfigd: V-5-1-554 Disk c2t12d0s2 names group rootdg,
but group ID differs

Jan 10 10:20:06 vxvm:vxconfigd: V-5-1-554 Disk c1t4d0s2 names group rootdg,
but group ID differs

TP0: (tp0_attach) Driver attached

/dev/vx/rdsk/bootdg/opt is clean
checking vxfs filesystems
Running parallel replay fsck ...
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/cdl:log replay in progress
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/cdl:replay complete - marking super-block as CLEAN
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/sc:log replay in progress
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/home:log replay in progress
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/screl:log replay in progress
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/home:replay complete - marking super-block as CLEAN
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/screl:replay complete - marking super-block as CLEAN
/dev/vx/rdsk/scdg/sc:replay complete - marking super-block as CLEAN


mercury console login:

Im afraid that it might go down.Can anyone help me on this..

Regards,
Arvindh.L

From sanelson at gmail.com  Sun Jan 11 02:36:58 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:36:58 +0000
Subject: Solaris 10/08 cifs mount
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901102336h602aac60kf7e7ed600785405e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I want to mount a Windows Server 2003 share, for the purposes of
logging remotely.

Looking at the archives, and googling suggests that Sharity used to be
the preferred solution, and that CIFS/SMBFS mounts of Windows shares
are available in OpenSolaris alpha-quality packages.

Is this still the same?  Or does the latest release make it easy to
mount a Windows share?

What's the recommended approach?

Thank you,

S.

From beo.banks at googlemail.com  Sun Jan 11 04:01:54 2009
From: beo.banks at googlemail.com (Beo Banks)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:01:54 +0100
Subject: Solaris 9 9/05; trouble with vi -x
Message-ID: <fe994bce0901110101y33388abdo4ad1069bb94bc079@mail.gmail.com>

hi together,

i have problems with the command vi -x (filename) on a *Solaris 9 9*/05
installation.
vi ask for the password and after enter, the shell stopped...
i see with top high cpu usage from /usr/lib/crypt and the vi...
i have test it with new files on the solaris 9 machine and with files which
created on solaris 8 installations...
have somebody i idea how can debug this or better a solution :)

thanks in advance
BeO
**

From sean at fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com  Sun Jan 11 23:19:06 2009
From: sean at fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com (Sean Walmsley)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:19:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SAS HBA in a Sun X4250 - install issue
Message-ID: <200901120419.n0C4J8Ta019362@merlin.fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com>

I have a Sun X4250 (2U x86 with 16 drive backplane) server into
which I'm trying to install a Sun SG-XPCIE8SAS-I-Z 8-port internal
SAS HBA to connect up the disk backplane via the 2 pre-installed
8-way SAS cables (Note that this HBA is the LSI 3081 based card
and not the higher end Adaptec based unit).

My questions are:

  - Should I plug the card into PCI-E slot 0 or 1?
  - Should I attach both 8-way cables, just cable 0, or
    just cable 1 to the 16-disk backplane?

My confusion stems from conflicting references in the documentation:

PCI-E SLOT:
-----------
  - HBA install manual says to use PCI-E slot 0 if boot support
    is required.
  - Server service manual *SAYS* to use PCI-E slot 0 but
    *SHOWS* (figure) using slot 1
  - Server architecture manual says to use PCI-E slot 1
  - Sun system handbook top view of server shows using slot 1
  - cables are sized to make slot 1 the most convenient
  
SAS CABLES:
-----------
  - HBA install manual says to just use one SAS cable for 16
    disk servers.
  - Server service manual says to use both SAS cables.

We've used this card in a Sun X4450 (8 drive backplane) previously
with the HBA installed in slot 0 and both cables used. I don't know
why Sun would call for half as many cables for a server with
twice as many drives.

If you've received this configuration configured by Sun, or
if you've successfully implemented it yourself, I'd appreciate your
feedback.

Thanks!

Sean Walmsley

=================================================================
Sean Walmsley        sean at fpp . nuclearsafetysolutions dot com

From grove at zeta.org.au  Sun Jan 11 23:50:08 2009
From: grove at zeta.org.au (grove at zeta.org.au)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:50:08 +1100 (EST)
Subject: SunMC 3.6 users help please
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0901121546290.28814@zathras.uws.edu.au>

Hi,
I am doing some remediation of our SunMC 4 server and as part of this 
work, I require the following file:

class-event.toe.data
7418 bytes
14195 (sum)

It should be found in /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/

The reason for needing this file can be found here:

http://forums.halcyoninc.com/showthread.php?t=158

If someone can please drop this file to me, it would be very helpful 
as I have scoured my package collection and do not have a useful copy.

Please note, the file must come from SunMC-3.6 not 3.6.1 or it will not 
work!


Thanks in advance for assistance rendered!

-- 
Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
grove at zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
 		The price of greatness is responsibility.

From sanelson at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 07:33:17 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:33:17 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 10/08 cifs mount
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901120433n221586d2u2e099bc5c2371bc3@mail.gmail.com>

It seems the recommended way is still to use Sharity - so I will be trying this.

The other suggestion was to use Windows services for UNIX, and set up
the Windows end as an NFS server.

Thanks very much,

S.

From sanelson at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 07:35:09 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:35:09 +0000
Subject: New disks - Corrupt labels
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901120435v9ede0abmccdfafd04f362f5a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I've inserted 6 new disks - 146G SAS - into a 5220.

I see messages like this in syslog:

Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 2,0 (sd3):
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 3,0 (sd4):
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 4,0 (sd5):
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 5,0 (sd6):
Jan 12 12:21:43 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number
Jan 12 12:21:44 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 6,0 (sd7):
Jan 12 12:21:44 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number
Jan 12 12:21:44 t5220a scsi: WARNING: /pci at 0/pci at 0/pci at 2/scsi at 0/sd at 7,0 (sd8):
Jan 12 12:21:44 t5220a  Corrupt label; wrong magic number

I've run devfsadm -c disk, and get the same messages.

I want to be able to create 2 zpools using these disks - nor sure how
to proceed.

Help?

S.

From sanelson at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 08:05:04 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:05:04 +0000
Subject: Summary: New disks - Corrupt labels
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901120505n28a15fd1ice3d26dac4d93a37@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Thanks to Kevin Insco, Jim Musso and B Voight - I just needed to run
format and label each disk.

S.

From sanelson at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 08:10:37 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:10:37 +0000
Subject: Identify disks
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901120510k3a5fb79cu493c684a2e7ab8eb@mail.gmail.com>

I'm sure I used to do this with luxadm?

I've looked through the archives, and google, but I can't seem to find
an appropriate search term.

I want to know which disk on the front of a 5220 corresponds to which
disk on the system.  Is there a way to make it flash to identify it?
Or some other way?

S.

From sanelson at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 08:55:25 2009
From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:55:25 +0000
Subject: Summary: Identify Disks
Message-ID: <b6131fdc0901120555s64628ed3t461618ba62e502f3@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Thanks for a quick handful of replies - divided between people helping
point me to the documentation, and suggesting ways to produce
non-harmful IO.

A work colleague of mine gets the prize though:

"Erm, Stephen, isn't there a little diagram on the front of the server?"

I verified it using Format->Disk->Analyze->Refresh

Thanks very much.

S.

From te at tsemba.org  Mon Jan 12 10:47:50 2009
From: te at tsemba.org (Tamer Embaby)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:47:50 +0200
Subject: StorEdge Professional Storage Manager
Message-ID: <496B6626.5090706@tsemba.org>

Hi all,

I have inherited 2 Sun Fire V490 and a StorEdge 3300 JBOD, I
need to get the "StorEdge Professional Storage Manager" software
to manage and monitor the JBOD array over in-band SCSI host
connection, but I'm quite stuck on where to get this software,
I've google'd and SunSolve'd with no good results.

What I'm looking for are the following packages specifically:
- SUNWscsu  Configuration Service Console
- SUNWscsd  Configuration Service Agent
- SUNWsccli  Configuration Service CLI

Anyone can point me on where to get these packages for
Solaris 10 - SPARC?

Regards,
Tamer

From Matthew.Stier at us.fujitsu.com  Mon Jan 12 12:31:02 2009
From: Matthew.Stier at us.fujitsu.com (Matthew Stier)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:31:02 -0500
Subject: Running an NIS make on a recently patched Solaris 10 server
	causes system hang.
Message-ID: <496B7E56.8020501@us.fujitsu.com>

I recently used 'pca' to install all the current patches on my T5220 
server, which I am planning to use as my replacement NIS master. 
(Currently being run on an Enterprise 450 running Solaris 8)

During the first 'make' after installing the patches, the system hung.  
After troubleshooting I found that it was failing at the point it was 
building passwd.byuid.

A Google search found a matching issue from September 2006, against 
OpenSolaris.  Is anyone encountering this problem?  Does anyone know the 
solution to the OpenSolaris problem?

http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-09/msg00043.html

Note: Per the OpenSolaris message, it appears to be a UFS issue.  
Running 'make' in /var/yp (UFS) causes the problem.  Running 'makedbm 
<sourcefile> passwd.byuid'  in /var/tmp (UFS) causes the problem.  
Running 'makedbm <sourcefile> passwd.byuid' in my home directory (NFS) 
does not cause the problem.  Running 'makedbm <sourcefile> passwd.byuid' 
in /tmp (tmpfs) does not cause the problem.

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From jesh.shetty at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 13:13:02 2009
From: jesh.shetty at gmail.com (Rajesh Shetty)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:13:02 -0500
Subject: metadb information
Message-ID: <f2da53580901121013p616ab02dv5c8cbd9c8a83f71c@mail.gmail.com>

hi all:Because of disk failure, I had to replace the primary disk in a dual
disk e2900. Three of the metadb replicas were on this disk. Prior to
replacement metadb -i showed the following

#metadb -i
        flags           first blk       block count
     a   m  luo         16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a        luo         8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a        luo         16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a    p  luo        16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
     a    p  luo        8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
     a    p  luo        16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7


After replacement, metadb -i shows

#metadb -i
        flags           first blk       block count
     a        u         16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a        u         8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a        u         16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
     a    p  luo        16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
     a    p  luo        8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
     a    p  luo        16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7


How do I make the metadb replicas on the c1t0 target to:
1) show the 'l' flag which is to be located and read successfully
2) to show the 'o' flag which is "metadb active prior to last mddb
configuration change
3) AND assign the first replica on target c1t0 to be master. Flag 'm'

Your help is appreciated.


Jesh

From te at tsemba.org  Mon Jan 12 18:13:02 2009
From: te at tsemba.org (Tamer Embaby)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:13:02 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: StorEdge Professional Storage Manager
In-Reply-To: <496B6626.5090706@tsemba.org>
References: <496B6626.5090706@tsemba.org>
Message-ID: <496BCE7E.8040803@tsemba.org>

All,

Thanks for Stephen Soetens, Chris Banal, and Jeff Marble.

It's "StorageTek 3000 Family Storage Products--Related Software 2.4"
at http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?tab=2


Regards,
Tamer


Tamer Embaby wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have inherited 2 Sun Fire V490 and a StorEdge 3300 JBOD, I
> need to get the "StorEdge Professional Storage Manager" software
> to manage and monitor the JBOD array over in-band SCSI host
> connection, but I'm quite stuck on where to get this software,
> I've google'd and SunSolve'd with no good results.
>
> What I'm looking for are the following packages specifically:
> - SUNWscsu  Configuration Service Console
> - SUNWscsd  Configuration Service Agent
> - SUNWsccli  Configuration Service CLI
>
> Anyone can point me on where to get these packages for
> Solaris 10 - SPARC?
>
> Regards,
> Tamer
> _______________________________________________
> sunmanagers mailing list
> sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

From myasirkhan at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 23:45:39 2009
From: myasirkhan at gmail.com (Yasir Khan)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:45:39 +0500
Subject: Problem with Rebooting SUN Netra 1405
Message-ID: <4844020901122045w33f6b8bah6f419a7f4c933622@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,

I have a dual SUN Netra 1405 in cluster mode. One of them is down and isnt
rebooting. During reboot, it gves CPU-1 failure and stops reboot. There are
4 CPUs in total.

Can there be a way to configure the server during reboot so that it skips
CPU-1 analysis? In this way, would the other 3 CPUs continue working?

Can the other option be to take out the faulty CPU and then reboot? Im
woried if I take out the server cables and open it, the active server may go
down due to lack of quorum votes. Services running on active node are very
critical.

Help would be much appreciated.

-- 
Regards,
Yasir.

From sunhux at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 23:59:55 2009
From: sunhux at gmail.com (sunhux G)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:59:55 +0800
Subject: Tcp/Udp port mapping (equivalent of firewall NAT)
Message-ID: <60f08e700901122059j74e62043s2aeee61ade84b472@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,


We have almost 100 servers that were recently installed with
a UPS software that makes use of Tcp 6003.  Unfortunately
for 3 of the servers, the application uses Tcp 6003 ie clashed.

It's possible for the UPS client software to be configured to use
another port, say Tcp 6007.  However, the central UPS controlller
that send signals (when there's AC power failure) to servers to
shut down the servers can only work with one single port, ie it
can't selectively work with 97 servers on Tcp 6003 while the
remaining 3 via Tcp 6007.

Is there anyway to work around this?  Any equivalent of port
mapping (for Network Addr Translation??).  On a single NIC,
we can define multiple addresses (alias) but can we have
multiple applications listening on a common Tcp ports?


Thanks
U

From Jonathan.K.Adams.ctr at nga.mil  Tue Jan 13 07:20:23 2009
From: Jonathan.K.Adams.ctr at nga.mil (Adams Jonathan K NGA-EGMC USA CTR)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:20:23 -0500
Subject: Single sign on ideas
Message-ID: <3035A6E5AF845F48991917D6F0277C599E81F2@XCGWSH03.gold.rtgold.nima.mil>

Hi All,

  I am currently running Sun One DS (5.1/5.2) and have an Active
Directory Domain... Any advice on an open-source means of integrating
the two into a single sign on environment. It is relatively small, so I
do not need an enterprise solution. I am in the process of upgrading 5.1
to 5.2 and am currently using Samba to integrate the two but it's a
piecemeal solution.

Plz help

--Jon

From rgoud at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 13 10:27:34 2009
From: rgoud at yahoo.com (Robert)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:27:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Oracle parameters in project
Message-ID: <569156.69307.qm@web52402.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi list,

I am trying to setup the following Oracle parameters in /etc/project in solaris 10

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=800
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=200
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300

equivalant of shmmax is project.max-shm-memory, anyone know the equilanat parameters for the rest of them?

Thanks in advance

From slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu  Tue Jan 13 14:41:26 2009
From: slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu (Stanley Laufer)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:41:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Tar archives larger than 8GB
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901131125520.8054@slis.sjsu.edu>

In Solaris 10, is the E flag still mandatory when creating
tar archives over 8GB?

Using Solaris tar, we created a 14GB tar archive without using
the E flag for extended headers.

However tar didn't complain, and even without the E flag,
tar happily continued to create the archive even after it
exceeded 8GB.

We've untarred the 14GB archive and tested the files, and
everything seems to be fine.

So our question is:

   Is the E flag still mandatory when creating tar archives over 8GB?


Many thanks in advance for any replies.  I'll post a summary.



Stanley E. Laufer
Network Administrator
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University

From veramontaro at gmail.com  Tue Jan 13 15:05:48 2009
From: veramontaro at gmail.com (Vera Montaro)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:05:48 -0800
Subject: SSH Daemon Help
Message-ID: <72fbfb890901131205n5a69f24fmd2025c6c9adf478b@mail.gmail.com>

I am having a issue with SSH daemons that won't release/remove from the
system after ssh users logged off the system especially root user. Since all
ssh daemons for users, root user and system daemons have the same daemon as
/usr/lib/ssh/sshd, it is hard to identify which one I need to remove
manually to prevent removing the ssh system daemon. Any helps will be
appreciated.

Running:
Sun_SSH_1.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0
Solaris 10 v5

Thanks.
Vera

From dsfoster at qualcomm.com  Tue Jan 13 15:11:58 2009
From: dsfoster at qualcomm.com (Foster, David)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:11:58 -0800
Subject: Question about link-aggregation and IPMP
Message-ID: <18B791085BDE5B4690CADEFFF4EE1C09BD7BB894@NASANEXMB10.na.qualcomm.com>

We've used both link-aggregation to increase bandwidth to the same switch, and
IPMP to provide fault tolerance at the switch level, in our environment. We
are considering the possibility of having 2 pairs of network connections to
two switches, aggregating each pair of those connections (dladm), and then
configuring those aggregated interfaces in IPMP.

Has anyone done this, any horror stories or gotchas to share?

Also, has anyone configured IPMP in active/active mode? Any help on how to do
that would be appreciated, I don't believe the IPMP chapter in the System
Administration Guide : IP Services discusses how to set this up.

Dave Foster

From slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu  Tue Jan 13 17:02:57 2009
From: slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu (Stanley Laufer)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Tar archives larger than 8GB
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901131401200.12486@slis.sjsu.edu>

It was pointed out that the E flag applies to individual
files being archived.   So if you're archiving files that
are larger than 8GB, then the E flag is required.

There is no limit on the size of the archive itself.

Sincerest apologies for the hassle.  I should obviously
have read the man page more carefully.

And thanks to those who responded.



---------- Original message ----------
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:41:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Stanley Laufer <slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Tar archives larger than 8GB

In Solaris 10, is the E flag still mandatory when creating
tar archives over 8GB?

Using Solaris tar, we created a 14GB tar archive without using
the E flag for extended headers.

However tar didn't complain, and even without the E flag,
tar happily continued to create the archive even after it
exceeded 8GB.

We've untarred the 14GB archive and tested the files, and
everything seems to be fine.

So our question is:

   Is the E flag still mandatory when creating tar archives over 8GB?


Many thanks in advance for any replies.  I'll post a summary.



Stanley E. Laufer
Network Administrator
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University

From rvandolson at esri.com  Tue Jan 13 19:14:01 2009
From: rvandolson at esri.com (Ray Van Dolson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:01 -0800
Subject: BIND
Message-ID: <20090114001401.GA23140@esri.com>

Greetings fellow sysadmins!

We're currently running the Sun provided version of BIND on our
production name servers (ten or so servers).  This makes updating the
software fairly easy, and it's also nice to be able to manage the
startup and security of the process with SMF.

However, the 9.3.x series that Sun's BIND is based on is a little long
in the tooth.  We're missing out on nifty new features like being able
to specify server {} blocks based on CIDR instead of one IP at a time
(we'd really love to disable EDNS for all DNS servers[1]).

So, I'm curious how the rest of you out there manage your medium to
large sized BIND farms?  Do you use Sun's BIND?  Do you use the one
from Sunfreeware?  Source?  Blastwave?  Some other method?

I did have a request in with Sun to update their BIND -- would love to
see it bump up to 9.5 or so; but I'm guessing this isn't something that
will happen within the Solaris 10 tree.  They most likely want to stay
at 9.3.

Appreciate any feedback,
Ray

[1] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2009-January/074548.html

From shannon_adams68 at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 13 20:15:29 2009
From: shannon_adams68 at yahoo.com (Shannon Adams)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:15:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Setting up new Dell printer on Solaris 9 using lexprt
Message-ID: <343806.93968.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

We have been using lexprt for years (provided by Lexmark - Version 4.8.2) to setup our laser printers on Solaris 9.  We have a mixture of several hundred Lexmark and Dell printers in our organization.  Up until now, we have been able to setup all our Dell printers picking an older Lexmark model (since lexprt only lists Lexmark printers) and our Solaris text reports would come out fine.

For example, we setup a Dell 5310 by using the following options in the queue:

Current Printer               <  Optra T 6xx (610,612,614,616) Printers
Printer Language              Enhanced PCL (R) 5e emulation            
                         PCL emulation options                         
Under PCL emulation options
Resolution                    600 dpi  
Symbol sets                   Roman-8  
Font                          Courier  
Pitch                         14       
Orientation                   Landscape
Text wrap                     On       
Auto carriage return          On       
Lines per page                70       
66 lines per page             Off      
Top margin                    3     
Left margin                   0     
Page width                    200   
Paper size                    Letter
Paper source                  Tray 1

Dell just came out with a new printer - model 5330dn.  We have tried these same settings that work on all other Dell printers.  However, the printed output seems to be using a slightly larger font and the page breaks are not correct.  What would normally print on one page, is now carrying over to a few lines on a second page before the page break occurs.

I would love to get away from lexprt, however it is not an easy option right now.  We plan to goto to Solaris 10 this Summer and will start using CUPS.

Any ideas on how I can get around this problem with these new Dell model printers?  The printer did come with a Solaris driver for the printer (d5330ps.ppd), but I am not sure how to install it or enable lexprt to "see it".  Thanks for any help.

From aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi  Wed Jan 14 02:48:04 2009
From: aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi (Aleks Feltin)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:48:04 +0200
Subject: fcp:fcp_offline_delay
Message-ID: <20090114074804.GA29006@dev.scms.fi>

Hi Managers,

I am on Solaris 10 connected to Symmetrix SAN.
What happened recently was a SAN firmware upgrade, which caused small delay
(5-10 seconds).
As a result, qlc HBAs were offlined and all LUNs have been lost hence the
mounts were gone.
With forceLIP it succeeded to get them back without rebooting.

My major concern is how to avoid such situations in future.
How to force Solaris not to offline HBAs for let's say 20-30 seconds and keep
filesystem mounted during short maintenances?

Very first thing I came up to was fcp_offline_delay parameter. It is set to 20
seconds by default, but it is clear enough that downtime took significantly
less time. I puzzled what should I tune to achieve my major objective.

thanks in advance,

--
A

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From sunhux at gmail.com  Wed Jan 14 06:05:48 2009
From: sunhux at gmail.com (sunhux G)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:05:48 +0800
Subject: Summary: Tcp/Udp port mapping (equivalent of firewall NAT)
Message-ID: <60f08e700901140305j156bf357xbc9e0ea6f32a6333@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to Ric, Hendrik, Peter, Nick, Francisco, Matthew & Crist.

Extracted below a couple of selected replies :

Though I don't know how to change our Oracle SSO & Oracle
GC applications to bind to a different IP addr, I do know
how to do this for the UPS software.

My plan is to create an alias/secondary address on the
existing NIC port & bind the UPS software to this address.

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

If you can force your applicatin and UPS software to listen only on a
specific IP, then you can easily create/add the extra IP on the
machine, and then make the two of then listen to the same TCP port
number, but each one have it's own IP.

BUT it needs to be configured on the application & UPS software to
only listen to one IP, and not on all of them.

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

The "right" way is to have a way to tell your application or
applications what address they should bind to. That is, if
you have a system with multiple IP addresses, it is perfectly
OK for one application to bind to 10.10.10.10:6003, another
to 10.20.20.20:6003, while a third binds to IN_ADDR_ANY:6003
(that is, a "wildcard" of sorts). Anything trying to connect
to the specific addresses gets the application listening on
that address, and anything else gets sent to the one listening
for any.

Of course, your application has to know to do this. Many don't
know how or do not give the user the means to control it; they
just always bind to IN_ADDR_ANY. In that case, there are a few
kludges available.

Like you said, doing NAT is available. Solaris 10 has IPFilter,
and it can be used to do this. Tell your backup application
to listen on 6007. Give the interface additional address
just for backup purposes. Then define a static NAT translation,

       rdr bge0 10.20.20.20/32 port 6003 -> 10.10.10.10/32 port 6007 tcp

Where 10.20.20.20/32 is the "extra" address and the second IP
is the "regular" address (although there is no reason the
second IP couldn't be the extra address too).

Another option with Solaris 10 is using zones. This could be
a pretty clean way to do it as long as you have the backup
program in the global zone. That would mean putting the other
application into a non-global zone, which may or may not be
acceptable. You could run the backup in the non-global zone,
but it may be pretty kludgly to get it to be able to see the
whole system and would definitely take some customizations
to the zone.




On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> We have almost 100 servers that were recently installed with
> a UPS software that makes use of Tcp 6003.  Unfortunately
> for 3 of the servers, the application uses Tcp 6003 ie clashed.
>
> It's possible for the UPS client software to be configured to use
> another port, say Tcp 6007.  However, the central UPS controlller
> that send signals (when there's AC power failure) to servers to
> shut down the servers can only work with one single port, ie it
> can't selectively work with 97 servers on Tcp 6003 while the
> remaining 3 via Tcp 6007.
>
> Is there anyway to work around this?  Any equivalent of port
> mapping (for Network Addr Translation??).  On a single NIC,
> we can define multiple addresses (alias) but can we have
> multiple applications listening on a common Tcp ports?
>
>
> Thanks
> U

From sun.mail.list at oryx.cc  Wed Jan 14 12:33:17 2009
From: sun.mail.list at oryx.cc (Jerry K)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:33:17 -0600
Subject: nfs mount on boot issue with Solaris 10
Message-ID: <496E21DD.8050207@oryx.cc>

I have an issue where I have ~200 Sun systems doing an NFS mount to an 
EMC NFS/NAS server.  Regardless of my entry in the /etc/vfstab file, 
remote NFS mounts to not mount on a system reboot.

They will mount fine once the system is up by either issuing an 
individual mount command or generically by issuing the command "mountall".

NFS clients consist of V240's, V480/490's and T5120's and T5140's.

NFS clients are running Solaris 10u3 through 10u5 and are relatively 
well patched.  I have also reviewed non applied patches (using PCA), and 
there is nothing jumping out at me as a possible patchable bug.

Initially, I thought that possibly DNS was not responding quickly enough 
during the boot process, and I made sure that my NFS server was in the 
/etc/inet/hosts file, this made no difference.  And once remote mounts 
are in place (via mountall), everything operates correctly.

TIA for any suggestions, I will summarize.

Jerry

From jfs at themis.com  Wed Jan 14 14:12:25 2009
From: jfs at themis.com (jean-francois simon)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:25 +0100
Subject: need to start X after keyboard is plugged
Message-ID: <496E3919.4020206@themis.com>

hi,
we have that configuration of several ultrasparc systems with a kvm used
to access them on a one by one fashion.
if a particular system is booting solaris while the kvm is not
"attached" to it, then the X server will not be started as solaris
doesn't find a keyboard.
next, if the kvm is attached to that system, solaris will detect that
the keyboard/mouse are now attached. At that point i would like the X
server  to start automatically, so that the kvm can be used (as a kvm
can only use graphics). for that purpose i have written a small script
that runs in the background looking for the keyboard node to appear in
/devices. when the node is seen, the script starts X.

is there a better way to do this under solaris, like some hot plug event
that could be used..so that i don't have to add the script?

thx a lot
-jfs

From jesh.shetty at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 13:39:02 2009
From: jesh.shetty at gmail.com (Rajesh Shetty)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:39:02 -0500
Subject: metadb information
In-Reply-To: <f2da53580901121013p616ab02dv5c8cbd9c8a83f71c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f2da53580901121013p616ab02dv5c8cbd9c8a83f71c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f2da53580901121039g30525167y6ae7332129dab6be@mail.gmail.com>

Forgot to mention that the OS is Solaris 10

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Rajesh Shetty <jesh.shetty at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi all:Because of disk failure, I had to replace the primary disk in a
> dual disk e2900. Three of the metadb replicas were on this disk. Prior to
> replacement metadb -i showed the following
>
> #metadb -i
>         flags           first blk       block count
>      a   m  luo         16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a        luo         8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a        luo         16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a    p  luo        16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>      a    p  luo        8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>      a    p  luo        16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>
>
> After replacement, metadb -i shows
>
> #metadb -i
>         flags           first blk       block count
>      a        u         16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a        u         8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a        u         16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7
>      a    p  luo        16              8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>      a    p  luo        8208            8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>      a    p  luo        16400           8192            /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
>
>
> How do I make the metadb replicas on the c1t0 target to:
> 1) show the 'l' flag which is to be located and read successfully
> 2) to show the 'o' flag which is "metadb active prior to last mddb
> configuration change
> 3) AND assign the first replica on target c1t0 to be master. Flag 'm'
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
>
> Jesh

From rgoud at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 13 10:31:15 2009
From: rgoud at yahoo.com (Robert)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:31:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Oracle parameters in project
References: <569156.69307.qm@web52402.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <420816.88012.qm@web52403.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Please ignore this email,  default values other than shared memory are higher
than the Oracle recommendation.




________________________________
From:
Robert <rgoud at yahoo.com>
To: Sun <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Tuesday,
January 13, 2009 10:27:34 AM
Subject: Oracle parameters in project

Hi list,
I am trying to setup the following Oracle parameters in /etc/project in
solaris 10

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set
semsys:seminfo_semmns=800
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=200
set
semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300

equivalant of shmmax is project.max-shm-memory,
anyone know the equilanat parameters for the rest of them?

Thanks in advance
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

From slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu  Tue Jan 13 15:54:20 2009
From: slaufer at slis.sjsu.edu (Stanley Laufer)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:54:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY Re: Tar archives larger than 8GB
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901131125520.8054@slis.sjsu.edu>
References: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901131125520.8054@slis.sjsu.edu>
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.0901131248020.12486@slis.sjsu.edu>

It was pointed out that the E flag applies to individual
files being archived.   So if you're archiving files that
are larger than 8GB, then the E flag is required.

There is no limit on the size of the archive itself.

Sincerest apologies for the hassle.  I should obviously
have read the man page more carefully.

And thanks to those who responded.



Stanley E. Laufer
Network Administrator
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University


On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Stanley Laufer wrote:

> In Solaris 10, is the E flag still mandatory when creating
> tar archives over 8GB?
>
> Using Solaris tar, we created a 14GB tar archive without using
> the E flag for extended headers.
>
> However tar didn't complain, and even without the E flag,
> tar happily continued to create the archive even after it
> exceeded 8GB.
>
> We've untarred the 14GB archive and tested the files, and
> everything seems to be fine.
>
> So our question is:
>
>    Is the E flag still mandatory when creating tar archives over 8GB?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance for any replies.  I'll post a summary.
>
>
>
> Stanley E. Laufer
> Network Administrator
> School of Library and Information Science
> San Jose State University
> _______________________________________________
> sunmanagers mailing list
> sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers

From mid.xinef at gmail.com  Wed Jan 14 18:40:18 2009
From: mid.xinef at gmail.com (Midgard)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:18 -0600
Subject: problems with svm - disk suit, and best way a zone backup
Message-ID: <907c65c90901141540k6a92b6f3u42faed4a6303e2db@mail.gmail.com>

** I had a problem with a disk (primary disk of mirror) on t2000 system,
this server are on oracle rac with other t2000 server.
Well, when I changed the primary disk (c0t0d0) and I put the new disk, with
format command I saw that the new disk was on c0t4d0, and in logs messages I
saw something like this:device offline or reservation conflict


After reboot I could see that my system had a new disk on a normal target
c0t0d0, and I started the disk configuration (the same slices size) and then
I did the metadevices, and in this point when I tried to use a command metas
i have this error:

# metadb -a -f -c 3 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
metadb: Segmentation Fault
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
#

# metainit -f d14 1 1 c0t0d0s6
metainit: Segmentation Fault
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
#


anyone has any idea??

** Another question, what is the best way to make a backup of a zone  or
container on ufs solaris 10?

Thanks in advance!
Mid

From quan.dinh at oracle.com  Wed Jan 14 20:21:15 2009
From: quan.dinh at oracle.com (Quan Dinh)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:21:15 -0800
Subject: sudo ldap on Solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <20090114074804.GA29006@dev.scms.fi>
References: <20090114074804.GA29006@dev.scms.fi>
Message-ID: <496E8F8B.1000208@oracle.com>

Hi managers,


I built and install sudo LDAP based on openssl, cyrus sasl, and open 
LDAP on Solaris 10.
After successful compiling with the compiled flags "--with-ldap --with-pam "

I was able to make it work pam_ldap:simple but it failed with 
pam_ldap:tls:simple
as below errors,
sudo: ldap search '(|(sudoUser=foo )(sudoUser=%svrtech)(sudoUser=ALL))'
sudo: found:cn=admin,ou=sudoers,dc=company,dc=com
sudo: ldap sudoHost 'ALL' ... MATCH!
sudo: ldap sudoCommand 'ALL' ... MATCH!
sudo: Perfect Matched!
sudo: user_matches=-1
sudo: host_matches=-1
sudo: sudo_ldap_check(0)=0x402
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts


I searched the Internet and found someone facing a similar problem and 
followed instruction from this link
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SunManagers/2005-08/0066.html, 
but still have no luck.

Any other trouble shoots that can help me?

thanks,
-Quan

From hortenvaldes at gmail.com  Wed Jan 14 23:23:26 2009
From: hortenvaldes at gmail.com (Horten)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:23:26 -0600
Subject: yppasswdd won't restart....Please HELP!!!
Message-ID: <c99ff9f40901142023p194f82cg4db08525235f6904@mail.gmail.com>

I can't restart yppasswdd ....I'm trying using svcadm -v enable
/network/nis/passwd and it just goes into maintenance mode...svcs
shows the following:

# svcs -a |grep passwd
maintenance    22:09:32 svc:/network/nis/passwd:default

logs files show the following:
Jan 14 22:09:32 hostnamex yppasswdd[9072]: [ID 188491 auth.error]
yppasswdd: couldn't register yppasswdd
Jan 14 23:09:32 hostnamex svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error]
network/nis/passwd:default failed repeatedly: transitioned to
maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for
details)svc:/network/nis/passwd:default (NIS (YP) password daemon)

 State: maintenance since January 14, 2009 10:09:32 PM CST
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M rpc.yppasswdd
   See: /var/svc/log/network-nis-passwd:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.

It was working fine and today I created a new user and when trying to
make the passwd file, it hung....I killed the make process and somehow
yppasswdd also died and now I can't restart it

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!....Thanks

From AJ.Venter at intecbilling.com  Thu Jan 15 05:47:30 2009
From: AJ.Venter at intecbilling.com (AJ Venter)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:47:30 +0200
Subject: Can one recover the ZFS filesystem that used to be on a disk ?
Message-ID: <D61D1794DE72024AAE70841A3298091601FCCDBD@IBCPTEX01.intecbilling.com>

Hi everyone,
Here's the situation I'm in, I inheritted a 150Gb ZFS filesystem from a
previous admin at my company. Said filesystem was unmirrored and located
on a single SAN disk, and in turn allocated to a zone.

A request was made to add another 100Gb to the filesystem.

Not being an expert on ZFS, I opted to go and RTFM, which I did a lot
off, finally I went with what looked like the right answer, just create
a SAN lun with a 100Gb available and add it to the zpool, did so -
device was there, space didn't increase (which the manual said it
should).

Oh dear...

I dug and dug but only found out later why it was happening (I was
adding the toplevel device name instead of the backup slice.

By then however I had been moving on to what would have been step two -
create a lun eith 250Gb on it, add it to the zone using the replace
command and thus get a mirror of the old one onto the new big one.
Unfortunately I made my next big mistake here - I unbound the defunct
100Gb LUN on the SAN side at this point - and found out only after this
that you cannot remove a disk from a zone without mirroring.
Zone was corrupted. So I ran a zpool destroy on it, recreated the pool
with the new 250Gb disk, didn't see any space went and dug and finally
found out what I had been doing wrong all along.

So now I have a pool with the right space... but none of the old data in
it. The LUN which held the orriginal data is still there though, just
not in a pool at the moment.
I tried to do zpool import devicename on it - to no avail. I tried to do
a zpool create but it shows as empty.

I believe the data should still be on the disk, after all - it wasn't
overwritten by anything, so I am wondering if there is a way to recover
that zfs filesystem so I can move the data onto the new pool (or
something similar).
Just to add fuel to the fire, I went and looked at our backup system and
it turns out the previous admin had done something very stupid... he
excluded the zone filesystems from the backup system - which means I
cannot restore from backups as there aren't any.

So I am really hoping there is a way to recover the data from the old
LUN. Any ZFS experts who can help me ?

Ciao
A.J.

From beo.banks at googlemail.com  Thu Jan 15 08:49:00 2009
From: beo.banks at googlemail.com (Beo Banks)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:49:00 +0100
Subject: Log Permissions changes
Message-ID: <fe994bce0901150549m109f44a0p7735d15a2d75816b@mail.gmail.com>

hi together,

i have the problem that some script,program or a user change the permissions
from /var/log to r-x-r-x-r-x,
it4s possible to log permissions changes in solaris 9 for directories??

From oussama.babasaci at gmail.com  Thu Jan 15 09:36:03 2009
From: oussama.babasaci at gmail.com (oussama baba saci)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:36:03 +0100
Subject: SE3510 lun mapping
Message-ID: <a03327820901150636w752395dcr95c7d8975790559a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
I have Se3510 FC with dual redundant controller and only 5 disks, I
configure one logical drive RAID5 using  five disks  (assigned to the
primary controller) this logical drive is divided on two partitions.
   I
 I need to connect the array to two hosts.
The current channels configuration is :
 Ch          Type        Media       Speed    Width   PID / SID
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0             Host       FC(L)          2G      Serial     40 / N/A
 1            Host        FC(L)          N/A     Serial     N/A / 42
 2       DRV+RCC    FC(L)           2G      Serial     14 / 15
 3       DRV+RCC    FC(L)           2G      Serial     14 / 15
 4          Host         FC(L)           2G      Serial     44 / N/A
 5          Host         FC(L)           N/A     Serial    N/A / 46
 6          Host         LAN             N/A     Serial    N/A / N/A

I have connect the first host to channel FC0 on the upper and FC4 in
the lower  (multipathing). Now I need to connect the second host, the
only remaining host ports are 1 and 5 that have ID on secondary
controller and not on the primary, so there is no possibility to map
the Luns to the ports in secondary controller since they are already
mapped to primary.
Is it correct to add new target IDs to these ports(1 and 5) on the
primary controller? if yes,  what impact it has on redundancy?
Many thanks in advance.

From ifetch at du.edu  Thu Jan 15 10:30:28 2009
From: ifetch at du.edu (Ivan Fetch)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:30:28 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Summary: Preference for Apache, PHP, and Tomcat packages for Sol10?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072010420.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>
References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072010420.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901150817540.15259@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>

Hello Sun Managers,

    First, a thank you to these folks who responded:


Alan Pae
Hendrik Visage
Kev Smith
Gary Jenson
William Enestvedt
Joseph Kwan
Gerard Henry
Karl Vogel


    Since it's longish, my initial question is below this email.


    We believe we'll use packages from OpenCSW.org, and move to Sun's Web 
Stack (an officially supported replacement for Cool Stack, 
http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/) for boxes running Sol10 5/08 or 
higher. Thanks to Alan for mentioning Web Stack, and Joseph for bringing 
OpenCSW to my attention again (I'd forgotten about them).


    Steve at Sunfreeware was willing to compile the latest Apache and PHP5, 
but unfortunately they are linked against a later libresolv than we have 
on some of our Sol10 boxes. We will update these boxes, but would like to 
not _have_ to, for the sake of Apache and PHP.  The libresolv 
issue didn't exist if we took LDAP out of the mix (use the Sunfreeware 
apache_noldap package, or PHP without LDAP) - but we need LDAP.


    OpenCSW has later versions of Apache and PHP, but not quite the latest 
(Apache 2.2.10 vs. 2.2.11, and PHP 5.2.6 vs. 5.2.8). I've emailed both 
package maintainers asking about updates, but haven't heard back yet. The 
libresolv issue doesn't exist, because OpenCSW compiles their packages on 
Sol8 boxes to keep backward compatibility. There is also a bit more 
granularity in packaging (separate packages for different Apache workers, 
and PHP extensions).


    Web Stack has slightly earlier versions of Apache and PHP (2.2.9 and 
5.2.6 again). It's supportable via a forum 
(http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=980). I talked to Sun's phone 
support, and they don't show a group which supports Web Stack. The Web 
Stack forum page does say this though:

"Sun Web Stack product features a comprehensive set
of support offerings via subscriptions similar to MySQL and GlassFish. As 
such, Sun Web Stack is an officially supported replacement to the Cool 
Stack, part of the Cool Tools solutions."

    The above implies you can get additional support from Sun - I'm still 
tracking this down.


    I have played with OpenCSW packages and Web Stack (on a Sol10 10/08 
box), and they are doing what we need so far. We'd like later versions of 
Apache and PHP, but (For now) would prefer not to build our own packages - 
we know that's the best way to get exactly what we want, though. :)

    Our end goal is upgraded Sol10, and Sun's Web Stack, with support.


    Thank you again for taking the time to reply, and share your 
experiences,

Ivan.




My initial question, on Wed, 7 Jan 2009,:


> Hello,
>
>
>   I'm curious what folks tend to use for new production installations of 
> Apache, PHP, and Tomcat.
>
>   There are packages available from Sun Freeware (www.sunfreeware.com), the 
> Sun Companion DVD (also now put together by Sun Freeware), the packages which 
> are installed along with Sol10 (SUNWapch* packages), Blastwave 
> (www.blastwave.org, seems particularly out of date), and Sun's Cool Stack 
> (cooltools.sunsource.net). There's also creating one's packages, which we've 
> still not wanted to do as an institution, and, perhaps other sources of 
> packages I'm not aware of.
>
>
>   I'm again evaluating these package maintainers' timeliness creating new 
> packages after security updates, and flexibility (E.G. we use PHP with LDAP 
> support, are PHP extensions available as add-on packages?).
>
>   I'd very much appreciate hearing insight from others' experiences - what 
> do you tend to use for new installations, how have you found the upgrade / 
> patch process, have you recently switched from one set of packages to 
> another, and why?
>
>
>   Thank you as always, for your time!
>
> - Ivan

From ifetch at du.edu  Thu Jan 15 10:43:50 2009
From: ifetch at du.edu (Ivan Fetch)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:43:50 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Parcial Summary: Climbing CKSUM errors after zpool online
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072040020.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>
References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901072040020.67808@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0901150830550.15259@tnetnzry.hgf.qh.rqh>

Hello Sun Managers,


    We received additional info from Sun, which I'd like to pass along.


    When you offline (zpool offline poolName device) a device, ZFS still 
"tracks" that device. IN our case, the device disappeared then reappeared 
(we took the array down for maintenance), causing ZFS to have CKSUM errors 
once then device is onlined again in ZFS (zpool online).

    The recommended action for future work (where the array will be 
offlined), is to detach the legs of our ZFS mirrors, then offline the 
device in ZFS.  I'm not sure if you can, or if there would be a point to, 
offlining since the device would be detached from the mirror.  Detach with 
something like:

zpool status # Take record of which devices mirrors or made of for later
zpool detach poolName device
# Offline the array, once it's back online:
zpool attach poolName existingDevice device # This is why you need zpool status output

    We fixed the climbing CKSUM errors, by detaching then re-attaching 
those legs of our mirrors.

    I'd like to get more definitive info on when zpool offline / online is 
appropriate, and why the CSUM errors kept climbing after we onlined the 
devices. This is something we'll probably further experiment with, and 
keep asking 
Sun about.


Thanks,

Ivan.



  On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Ivan Fetch wrote:

> Hello Sun Managers,
>
>
>   We've been working on a weird ZFS issue, and not getting very far with 
> Sun.
>
>   We needed to relocate a storage array, so "zpool offlined" the second half 
> of mirrors on multiple machines.  Once the array was back online, and we 
> verified the LUNs were seen in the OS, we did "zpool online" for each of the 
> previously offlined LUNs.
>
>   The first LUN took about 35 minutes to resilver, and the mirror was fine; 
> no errors in "zpool status."  Subsequent mirrors reported resilver completed 
> in a matter of seconds, and we got quite a few CKSUM errors (in one case, a 
> few thousand in 12 hours), but no read or write errors.
>
>   We're experiencing this idential issue on three boxes so far, a couple of 
> them are:
>
> 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T2000
>
> 5.10 Generic_127111-06 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
>
>
>   Sun's answer is to "Just upgrade the kernel, a lot of ZFS bugs have been 
> fixed, but only upgrade to 137137-06 as later kernels will introduce other 
> ZFS issues."
>
>   We ended up detaching, then re-attaching the second leg of the mirrors, 
> and all of them resilvered and do not have CKSUM errors. We will probably end 
> up doing this on our remaining ZFS boxes but would like to match our symptoms 
> with a particular bug / resolution / patch, and have more complete answers.
>
>   I've found a few simelar cases on the ZFS Discuss list, but no resolutions 
> there.
>
>
>   Has anyone else run into this issue?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ivan.
>
>
> ---
> Ivan Fetch
> University of Denver
> Computer Operations, University Technology Services
> 303-871-3092

From vinnie.german at credit-suisse.com  Thu Jan 15 12:51:36 2009
From: vinnie.german at credit-suisse.com (German, Vinnie)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:51:36 -0500
Subject: How to read as an ascii file the contents of /var/adm/wtmpx
	without using the last command..
Message-ID: <7828A4FA77FB1441B15039D684A0828A09AFDCBD@EPRI17P32002A.csfb.cs-group.com>

Hello Managers

I'm running the "last" command to read the contents of users who had
previously logged into the system.

When I do so the output is as follow:

bash-2.03# last

wtmp begins Wed Dec 31 19:00
bash-2.03#

As you can see, the output if empty, there is nothing being displayed,
however, the size of the file is 605753552

bash-2.03# pwd
/var/adm
bash-2.03# ls -ls wtmpx
1183760 -rw-r--r--   1 adm      adm      605771780 Jan 15 12:44 wtmpx
bash-2.03#

I'm thinking that it's doing so maybe because of the size of file is too
large.  Here comes my question..

How can I read the content of /var/adm/wtmpx and have it display as it
normally will be displayed using the "last" command.?
As you know this is a binary data file.

I've used "strings" and od but not getting desired output format.

Thanks in advance,

Vinnie German.


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From toml at engr.orst.edu  Thu Jan 15 23:02:59 2009
From: toml at engr.orst.edu (Tom Lieuallen)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:02:59 -0800
Subject: zfs rootpool degraded and migration
Message-ID: <497006F3.2030902@engr.orst.edu>

I have a V120 running Solaris 10 U6.  I decided to use a zfs root file 
system so that I could mirror without all the solstice pieces.  I 
installed the OS, then attached the second drive after the OS was up 
(zpool attach...).  It appears that the resilvering had problems.

# zpool status
   pool: rootpool
  state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
         corruption.  Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
         entire pool from backup.
    see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
  scrub: resilver completed after 0h41m with 51926 errors on Wed Dec 31 
13:05:02
2008
config:

         NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         rootpool      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
           mirror      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
             c0t0d0s0  FAULTED     20     0     0  too many errors
             c0t1d0s0  DEGRADED     0     1  216K  too many errors

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

         /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curl.h
         /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curlver.h
...
<ad nausea>
...

# zfs list
NAME                            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rootpool                       13.3G  19.9G    94K  /rootpool
rootpool/ROOT                  4.25G  19.9G    18K  legacy
rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6      4.25G  19.9G  4.17G  /
rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6/var  83.3M  19.9G  83.3M  /var
rootpool/a1                    2.75G  5.25G  2.75G  /a1
rootpool/dump                  2.00G  19.9G  2.00G  -
rootpool/private                341M  5.67G   341M  /private
rootpool/swap                     4G  23.9G    16K  -

# iostat -e
            ---- errors ---
device    s/w h/w trn tot
ramdisk1    0   0   0   0
sd0         0 129 487 616
sd3         0 256 877 1133
nfs1        0   0   0   0

The system logs report scsi bus resets and read and write errors for 
both disks.  I assume one of the disks is causing problems for 
everything on the bus.

The 'faulted' disk is the one with the original OS.  The files it is 
reporting problems with are all on rootpool/a1.  There's only ~50,000 of 
them.  That's just a copy of our /usr/local, so there's nothing there I 
need.

Should we just shut the machine down/off, reseat both disks, and hope 
for the best?  I'm concerned it won't boot again. :-(  Or, if we try to 
hot-plug one of the disks, it may panic too.

I have another related question...

I'd like to prepare another disk or two to slap into this host in case 
it's not repairable or in case something I do makes things worse. :-) 
What is the proper procedure for installing a machine with zfs root, 
then moving that disk to another host?  I did this once before and it 
complained about the zpool being last used by a different host.  I ended 
up booting off the net and forcing the import.  To simplify matters, 
should I boot the temporary install host off the net and export the 
zpool?  Or should I just be prepared to force the import?

thank you

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University

From speedyourmind at yahoo.com  Fri Jan 16 08:58:13 2009
From: speedyourmind at yahoo.com (Kiran Sharma)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:58:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Daemon error - SF 880
Message-ID: <118311.20760.qm@web65601.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

Gurus,
I got following alert and we had issue with one of the DIM on this box. I
googled and found one of the guy had similar issue but there was no summary.
Could someone suggest to take right action since it been going on for 3 days.

Thanks
-KS

Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 641775 kern.info] NOTICE:
[AFT0] Corrected system bus (
CE) Event detected by CPU3 at TL=0, errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05     AFSR 0x00000002<CE>.000001d4 AFAR
0x000000a0.b748b2b0
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05     Fault_PC 0x1002604c Esynd 0x01d4 Slot A: J3200
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 992315 kern.info] [AFT0]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac Corr
ected Memory Error on Slot A: J3200 is Persistent
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 258968 kern.info] [AFT0]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac Data
 Bit 75 was in error and corrected
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 444236 kern.info] [AFT2]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac E$ta
g PA=0x000000b0.ff88b280 does not match AFAR=0x000000a0.b748b280
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 135804 kern.info] [AFT2]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac PA=0
x000000b0.ff88b280
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05     E$tag 0x000002c3.fe000001 E$state_2 Invalid
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x00) 0x21000008.a01c3
ff0 0xe0078010.80a42000 ECC 0x1cf
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x10) 0x048000eb.01000
000 0xe007a044.e0042008 ECC 0x128
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x20) 0xe0042070.80a40
000 0x02800021.01000000 ECC 0x0b6
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x30) 0x21000008.a01c3
fec 0xe0078010.a2042001 ECC 0x193
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 444236 kern.info] [AFT2]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac E$ta
g PA=0x000000b0.5f48b280 does not match AFAR=0x000000a0.b748b280
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 135804 kern.info] [AFT2]
errID 0x0008a6a5.c02a0fac PA=0
x000000b0.5f48b280
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05     E$tag 0x000002c1.7d400000 E$state_2 Invalid
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x00) 0x04260000.00000
007 0x860000b0.e701c6b2 ECC 0x065
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x10) 0x04260000.00000
007 0x870000b0.c381e6b2 ECC 0x061
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x20) 0x04260000.00000
007 0x840000b0.9a8186b2 ECC 0x0ea
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 895151 kern.info] [AFT2]
E$Data (0x30) 0x04260000.00000
007 0x850000b0.9081a6b2 ECC 0x0a7
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 929717 kern.info] [AFT2]
D$ data not available
Jan 14 17:39:19 sunserv05 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 335345 kern.info] [AFT2]
I$ data not available
Jan 14 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 14 23:20:00 sunserv05 last message repeated 4 times
Jan 14 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] **********  SYSTEM
ACCOUNTING STARTED Wed Jan 14 23
:20:00 EST 2009  **********
Jan 14 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 14 23:20:01 sunserv05 last message repeated 6 times
Jan 14 23:20:01 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] ************ ACCT
ERRORS : see  /var/adm/acct/nite/
active0114********
Jan 14 23:20:01 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 14 23:20:01 sunserv05 last message repeated 1 time
Jan 14 23:20:08 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] ********** SYSTEM
ACCOUNTING COMPLETED Wed Jan 14 2
3:20:08 EST 2009 **********
Jan 15 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 15 23:20:00 sunserv05 last message repeated 4 times
Jan 15 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] **********  SYSTEM
ACCOUNTING STARTED Thu Jan 15 23
:20:00 EST 2009  **********
Jan 15 23:20:00 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 15 23:20:01 sunserv05 last message repeated 6 times
Jan 15 23:20:01 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] ************ ACCT
ERRORS : see  /var/adm/acct/nite/
active0115********
Jan 15 23:20:01 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
Jan 15 23:20:01 sunserv05 last message repeated 1 time
Jan 15 23:20:09 sunserv05 adm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] ********** SYSTEM
ACCOUNTING COMPLETED Thu Jan 15 2
3:20:09 EST 2009 **********

From ketan.patel at nomura.com  Fri Jan 16 11:37:50 2009
From: ketan.patel at nomura.com (ketan.patel at nomura.com)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:37:50 -0000
Subject: e1000g0 - Unknown primitive
Message-ID: <381CB45169CB1E4AA063F9A40859BF3405A537F3@LONEV3102.EUROPE.NOM>

Gurus,

I've a Sol 10 5/08 build server running on T5120. /var/adm/messages file
is full of errors about e1000g0 and unknown primitive:

Jan 16 15:17:56 us1815 ip: [ID 385918 kern.error] e1000g0: <unknown
primitive> failed: DL_UNSUPPORTED

These errors appear every 5 minutes (probably in line with some sort of
monitoring). This server is part of a cluster and the other node is
identical in terms of build/hardware and it doesn't report any sort of
errors. These messages had been appearing since the time the server was
built. Following is the output of ifconfig -a.

e1000g0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
        inet 147.201.208.106 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 147.201.255.255
        ether 0:21:28:16:7c:9a
e1000g0:1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
        inet 147.201.208.102 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 147.201.209.255
e1000g0:2: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
        inet 147.201.208.103 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 147.201.209.255
e1000g0:3: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
        inet 147.201.208.104 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 147.201.209.255
e1000g0:4: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
        inet 147.201.208.105 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 147.201.209.255

Has any of you ever came across such messages? Please let me know if you
require additional information.

Thanks,
Ketan



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From rgoud at yahoo.com  Fri Jan 16 11:58:24 2009
From: rgoud at yahoo.com (Robert)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:58:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: LUN limitations on Solaris 10
Message-ID: <716365.89256.qm@web52410.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

We have EMC guy created about 12 LUNS but solaris 10 host is only seeing 9
LUNS, is there any limitation on number of LUNS on solaris?
Do we need to
modify sd.conf file? please let me know.
thanks in advance

From veramontaro at gmail.com  Fri Jan 16 22:39:06 2009
From: veramontaro at gmail.com (Vera Montaro)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:39:06 -0800
Subject: Solaris Printing Software
Message-ID: <72fbfb890901161939q59129ab4v9c00187f1d9dd0b5@mail.gmail.com>

We just migrated all production servers from HP-UX to SUN Solaris 10v5.
Things are good except production printing. We have about 125 network
printers in eight location within the city. To accommodate the complicated
printing environment we decided to go with CUPS printing to resolve some of
the -o options printing that migrated from hp-ux. The problem is some of our
laser printers either too old or ppd drivers don't work at all. I have
searched and found the correct ppd drivers for the printer models but most
of ppd drivers don't work even the correct model ppd files.

I am tired of managing CUPS that none of us has any expertise. My boss is
willing to spend money to have a commercial print management software for
solaris with full support. Do you know of any? Please share with me. Thanks.

Vera

From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Sat Jan 17 00:30:02 2009
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:30:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Sun Managers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Message-ID: <20090117053002.16B9D59C00E@apps0.cs.toronto.edu>

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   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sun-managers

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

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

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

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

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

   Solaris on Intel-based (x86) machines
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/
   Old list archives at: http://www.egroups.com/list/solarisonintel/

   Auspex: managers of Auspex NFS file servers
   auspex-request at princeton.edu - add/remove requests
   auspex at princeton.edu - submissions

   Solbourne: managers of Solbourne SPARC systems "info-solbourne" list
   majordomo at acsu.buffalo.edu - add/remove requests
   info-solbourne at acsu.buffalo.edu - submissions
   ftp://ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu/pub/misc/info-solbourne.tar.z archives

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

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

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

   For Web pages, see the answer to question 2.4.
     _________________________________________________________________

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

  <mailto:sunmanagers-request at sunmanagers.org?subject=unsubscribe>
  List-Archive: <http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/>
     _________________________________________________________________

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

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

   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 <Casper dot Dik at Holland dot Sun
   dot COM>. 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 <meltzer at villagenet dot
   com> 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 <ead at ixian dot com> suggests the BigAdmin site run by
   Sun, at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin

   Alan Pae <alanpae at ilkda dot com> 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:  <enter old passwd>
        Please enter the login password for root:       <enter new passwd>
        {root}5%

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

   4) Change the system's /etc/.rootkey:
        {root}5% keylogin -r
        Password:                               <enter new passwd>
        Wrote secret key into /etc/.rootkey
        {root}6%

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

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

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

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

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

   To change the keys for the root master server do as follows:
  1. use these commands in this order:

         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. groups_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys -CH master.server.name. domain.name.

         (This CLEARS the public key for the HOST "master.server.name" in this
  directory.)

  2. Kill rpc.nisd and restart it at security level O then run this command:

         nistbladm -R cname=master.server.name. cred.org_dir.domain.name.
         nisaddcred des

         <This deletes the old credential and creates a new one.>

  3. Shutdown and restart any replicas of org_dir.domain.name. at run level O

         nisping org_dir.domain.name.

  <This propogates the new key pair to the replicas.>

         nisdupdkeys domain.name.
         nisupddkeys org_dir.domain.name.
         nisupdkeys groups_dir.domain.name.

         <This puts the new credential in the effected directory objects.>

  4. Kill and restart all rpc.nisd servers at level O to security level 2.

   Note that changing a server's key affects all directory objects
   containing the key.

   Thanks to Rogerio Rocha <rogerio at bvl dot pt> and Sun INFODOC ID
   2213 for this information.
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   3.3) When I compile something, errors occur saying _dlopen and other
   _dl routines can't be found. Why?

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

        /* libdl stubs -- John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */
        char *dgettext(domainname, msgid)
        char *domainname;
        char *msgid;
        { return(msgid); }

        void *dlopen(pathname, mode)
        char *pathname;
        int mode;
        { return((void *)NULL); }

        void *dlsym(handle, name)
        void *handle;
        char *name;
        { return((void *)NULL); }

        char *dlerror()
        { return(NULL); }

        int dlclose(handle)
        void *handle;
        { return(0); }
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   4. Window Systems
     _________________________________________________________________

   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 <hightowr at afwc dot af dot mil>.
     _________________________________________________________________

   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 <Kevin dot Sheehan at uniq dot com dot au>

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

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

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

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

   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 <mjb at ltx dot com>
     _________________________________________________________________

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Use the L1-A sequence to crash the system. If you are on an older
   system, type "g0" and you will get the message "panic: ... syncing
   file systems". When you see the word "done", hit L1-A again and
   reboot. On systems with the "new" prom, type "n" to get into the new
   command mode and type "sync".
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   6.3) How do I find out how much physical memory a machine has?

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

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

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

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

   A perl script "memconf" is also available that identifies the sizes
   and locations of SIMM/DIMM memory modules installed in a Sun system.
   It also works on several SPARC clones and with Sun Explorer data. It
   is maintained by Tom Schmidt <tschmidt at micron dot com>. Download
   memconf from http://www.4schmidts.com/unix.html
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   6.4) How do I find out what my machine's memory is being used for? How
   can I tell if I need more memory?

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

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

   An easy way to determine whether or not your machine needs more memory
   is to run vmstat and examine the po (page out) column and the sr (scan
   rate) column. If these columns consistently show large numbers, this
   suggests that your machine does not have enough memory to support its
   current workload, and frequently needs to write pages belonging to
   active processes to disk in order to free up enough memory to run the
   current job.
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   6.5) Why do some files take up more disk space after being copied? Why
   are the sizes reported by ls -l and du different?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Thanks to Dan Pritts <danno at ans dot net> 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 <harvey at mdacorporation dot com >
     _________________________________________________________________

   9. Sun models and OS Versions
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   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 <mcooper at magnicomp dot com>
   "sysinfo" program, which provides all sorts of information about a
   given system, including the machine type. sysinfo is available on the
   web at http://www.magnicomp.com/, although it is now a commercial
   product that is free only for educational and non-profit
   organizations.
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   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 <mcooper at magnicomp dot com>
   "sysinfo" program, which provides all sorts of information about a
   given system, including the prom revision. sysinfo is available on the
   web at http://www.magnicomp.com, although it is now a commercial
   product that is free only for educational and non-profit
   organizations.
     _________________________________________________________________

   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/<platform-name>/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.
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   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.
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   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 <Eric dot Boutilier at Sun dot COM>

   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
   <kevin at inscoe dot org>
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   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 <anders at hmi dot de> points out that LAOLA (a Perl4
   package that can read Word6 and Word7 format is available on the web
   at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/.

   Another option (suggested by Thomas <tunixlists at gmail dot com>) 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.
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   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 '/^\///' <abspath.tar

   Or you can use chroot and a statically linked version of tar, as
   follows:
        cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp/restore
        # cd /tmp/restore
        # cat abspath.tar | chroot /tmp/restore /tar xf -

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Thanks to Stuart Whitby <swhitby at legato dot com>
     _________________________________________________________________

   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 <andreas at apsfilter dot org> for
   this information.

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

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

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

   PROM passwords:

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

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

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

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

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

    /* Enable or disable abort sequence.  John DiMarco <jdd at cs.toronto.edu> */

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/ioctl.h>
    #include <sys/fcntl.h>
    #ifdef FILENAME_MAX
    #include <sys/kbd.h>
    #include <sys/kbio.h>
    #else /* !FILENAME_MAX */
    #include <sundev/kbd.h>
    #include <sundev/kbio.h>
    #endif /* !FILENAME_MAX */

    #define ERR -1
    #define DISABLE 0
    #define ENABLE 1
    #define KEYBOARD "/dev/kbd"

    main(argc,argv)
    int argc;
    char *argv[];
    {
            static struct kiockey k;
            int fd, mode=ERR;

            if(2==argc){
                    switch(*(argv[1])){
                    case 'e':
                            mode=ENABLE;
                            break;
                    case 'd':
                            mode=DISABLE;
                            break;
                    }
            }
            if(ERR==mode){
                     printf("Usage: %s [enable|disable]\n", argv[0]); exit(1);
            }
            if(0>(fd=open(KEYBOARD, O_RDWR))){ perror(KEYBOARD); exit(1); }

            k.kio_tablemask = KIOCABORT1;
            k.kio_station=mode;
            (void)ioctl(fd, KIOCSETKEY, &k);
            printf("Abort sequence is now %s.\n", mode?"enabled":"disabled");
    }

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

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

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

   set abort_enable=0

   into /etc/system, and rebooting.

   Thanks to Dan Astoorian <djast at cs dot toronto dot edu>
     _________________________________________________________________

   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] <FMRI>". 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] <FMRI>". 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 <FMRI>"

   As an alternative to using "ps" to check service processes, you can
   now use "svcs -p <FMRI>" 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 <neil at quiogue dot com>

From asiye.yigit at gantek.com  Sat Jan 17 06:50:33 2009
From: asiye.yigit at gantek.com (Asiye Yigit)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:50:33 +0200
Subject: NFS entry in vfstab
Message-ID: <EC79C5A11A89A54FA0896E9513C30B2A4A9E1F@ganexch.gantek.local>

Hello,



Could you please tell me if the following line is in vfstab; is there
any risk if  diamondvip.test.com.tr is not reachable to start any
services in this node? It is mounting an area from other system. during
boot-up process, if share resource is not available, is there a risk in
boot process no to continue and not to start remaining services? To
prevent this, I have added bg in option filed. Is there anything I miss?



# It is there because we would like to mount diamond_data01 from the
node of diamond

diamondvip.test.com.tr:/export/diamond_data01   -       /diamond_data01
nfs     -       yes     bg,hard



regards,

From bigadmin at unixplanet.biz  Sat Jan 17 11:47:19 2009
From: bigadmin at unixplanet.biz (Bigadmin)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:47:19 -0600
Subject: Summary ithr in mpstat increasing
In-Reply-To: <000001c96575$d8675740$893605c0$@biz>
References: <000001c96575$d8675740$893605c0$@biz>
Message-ID: <000301c978c3$432df150$c989d3f0$@biz>

Hello Sun Managers,

Thanks everyone for quick answer, really appreciate your help.
And I was lucky to talk to someone very knowledgeable at SUN Kernel support.
  
In most cases having abnormal number of interrupts or CPU usage
Indicates an offensive process, however our case was related to 
high network traffic usage. We are doing some heavy work on network and 
network interface send its interrupts to one specific CPU which causes 
the number of interrupts on one CPU goes higher than others. This wont 
cause any problem unless CPU power is less than Network speed.
In this case high number of interrupts pins out other processes 
that are running on that CPU.

I found following website very useful:
http://blogs.sun.com/sunay/entry/the_solaris_networking_the_magic

and SUN support mentioned about increasing number of FIFO on network
interface.

I am going to copy all answers the I received from SUN Managers.
Once again thanks every one.


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

You can do this in a multi step process.

1. First select the process you think is causing the high ithr - 
   it will be a process using pthreads, or java, or some lib that allows it
to thread 
   (or it might be a custom thread lib, hence the bad behavior)

2. Select a group of 2 or more processors and create a processor group using
'pset' - 
this processor group will be used to isolate execution.
 If you have several processors (T1 or T2 archs) you should create one
process group 
 for each suspect process to save time.  Having a smaller number of
processors helps 
 increase the frequency of interrupts and context switches.

3.  Also using the pset command, bind your suspect processes to a process
group.  
    Only one process group per process so you can easily see which one is
causing the problem.

4. Run mpstat using the -a option to monitor by processor set.

Hope this helps.

JayJay Florendo


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

Hello,

It looks like a thread contention on CPU 2. I think prstat has the
possibility to sort PID based on CPU. 
Just look the PID with the max number of threads that use CPU 2. It should
be your guilty PID.

Kind regards,
Eric Deblon

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


Hi,

hopefully this is a Sol10 box.. in that case dtrace might help you find the
process producing these interrupts...

http://prefetch.net/articles/dtracecookbook.html

You can get the dtrace toolkit from

http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html#DTraceToolkit

Cheers

Thom





-----Original Message-----
From: Bigadmin [mailto:bigadmin at unixplanet.biz] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:15 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Cc: bigadmin at unixplanet.biz
Subject: ithr in mpstat increasing

Hi

mpstat output shows Number of intr and ithr are increasing and it 
Reaches to the point that System disable the CPU.

I don't think it is a hard ware problem and looking for a way to find the
exact
Process that cause this problem and then find the application.


CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr sys  wt idl
  0  101   2  255  1003  645 5575  345  520  575    0  6214   11  24   0  64
  1   61   1  149   609   73 5768  483  555  553    0  4569   10  24   0  66
  2   55   2 1259 14530 14485 1253   86  185 2141    0  3063    6  39   0
56
  3   77   1  197   833  259 5634  469  544  554    0  5050   11  25   0  65

Thanks

From egold at fsa.com  Sat Jan 17 14:00:49 2009
From: egold at fsa.com (Gold, Evan)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:00:49 -0500
Subject: jumpstart on NFS issue
Message-ID: <FA7923114AA6784982D4BC44ED8705A4081E60FBB5@excmail.fsa.com>

Hi everyone,
I have a jumpstart that I have been using for a long time on local disks.
I recently moved my entire /jumpstart folder to an nfs mount from a NAS
device.
I changed my sysidcfg, profile, etc to use that share instead of my old local
share.
But now it seems I cannot run add_install_client, I keep getting this error.
Can you please tell me how to fix this?
It is a plain jumpstart setup, nothing fancy, just solaris 9 jumpstart and all
the files have been moved to a remote nfs mount that is able to be mounted by
all my servers.
My solaris server is named "solaris9" and my NAS devce which shares /jumpstart
is named "NASSERVER".




MY ERROR:

./add_install_client -c NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart -p
NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart/Sysidcfg/Solaris9 clientmachine sun4u


add_install_client: "NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart" is not a local mount of
/jumpstart/OS/Solaris_9_2005-09/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
           cannot export "NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart" for install clients



I also tried this command but got the same error:

./add_install_client -s NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart clientmachine sun4u




Evan Gold
Financial Security Assurance
31 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
212.893.2762

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From bigadmin at unixplanet.biz  Sat Jan 17 15:59:30 2009
From: bigadmin at unixplanet.biz (Bigadmin)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:59:30 -0600
Subject: SUN Branded Qlogic or Qlogic  HBA
Message-ID: <000d01c978e6$7e334430$7a99cc90$@biz>

Hi 

How can I determine fiber channel HBA brand on Solaris 10.
I need to know if our server has Qlogic or SUN Branded Qlogic ?

Thanks

From egold at fsa.com  Sun Jan 18 08:14:14 2009
From: egold at fsa.com (Gold, Evan)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:14:14 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: jumpstart on NFS issue
In-Reply-To: <F3374A51472A4545ADCEC486232E52DE07CE0D5235@excmail.fsa.com>
References: <F3374A51472A4545ADCEC486232E52DE07CE0D5235@excmail.fsa.com>
Message-ID: <FA7923114AA6784982D4BC44ED8705A4081E60FBDD@excmail.fsa.com>

I would like to that everyone that helped me.
This list is great and I was amazed at the fast responses to my issue.

I got a few suggestions.


-          One was to modify /etc/bootparams by hand to relect my NAS share.

-          The other was to modify the add_install_client script to not
exit/fail upon checking for a NFS mount from my NAS. I just commented out the
lines in the script.

-          Upgrade to the latest version of solaris 10 for a jumpstart server,
that might support NFS mounts for the /jumpstart share.

I chose to modify add_install_client and that worked great. I liked that
better since it created all the /tftpboot items automatically for me.

Thanks again!

From: Gold, Evan
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:01 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: jumpstart on NFS issue

Hi everyone,
I have a jumpstart that I have been using for a long time on local disks.
I recently moved my entire /jumpstart folder to an nfs mount from a NAS
device.
I changed my sysidcfg, profile, etc to use that share instead of my old local
share.
But now it seems I cannot run add_install_client, I keep getting this error.
Can you please tell me how to fix this?
It is a plain jumpstart setup, nothing fancy, just solaris 9 jumpstart and all
the files have been moved to a remote nfs mount that is able to be mounted by
all my servers.
My solaris server is named "solaris9" and my NAS devce which shares /jumpstart
is named "NASSERVER".




MY ERROR:

./add_install_client -c NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart -p
NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart/Sysidcfg/Solaris9 clientmachine sun4u


add_install_client: "NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart" is not a local mount of
/jumpstart/OS/Solaris_9_2005-09/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot
           cannot export "NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart" for install clients



I also tried this command but got the same error:

./add_install_client -s NASSERVER:/vol/jumpstart clientmachine sun4u




Evan Gold
Financial Security Assurance
31 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
212.893.2762

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From bigadmin at unixplanet.biz  Sun Jan 18 12:05:27 2009
From: bigadmin at unixplanet.biz (Bigadmin)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:05:27 -0600
Subject: SMF and services startup dependency
Message-ID: <003401c9798e$f6043e80$e20cbb80$@biz>

Hi

Our application is depend on database and any time we reboot the server 
Or restart the data base, application won't start properly because database 
Is not fully started. this cause database corrupted at the server startup
or we need to restart the application after database is fully started.

Is there any way to add a delay to service startup in SMF and Solaris 10 ?
So application starts 5 minutes after database started and not right a way
After data base startup?

Thanks

From cqlin at yahoo.cn  Sun Jan 18 22:43:35 2009
From: cqlin at yahoo.cn (Linchq)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:43:35 +0800 (CST)
Subject: about kernel
Message-ID: <996018.71675.qm@web92204.mail.cnh.yahoo.com>

 Hi,all

B  #
mdb -k

Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix
specfs dtrace ufs sd mpt px ldc ip hook neti sctp arp usba fcp fctl emlxs
nca md ssd lofs zfs random logindmux ptm cpc sppp crypto fcip nfs ipc ]

> ::memstat -d

Usage: memstat

> ::memstat

Page Summary B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B Pages B  B  B  B  B  B 
B  B MB B %Tot

------------ B  B  ----------------
B ---------------- B ----

Kernel B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  246066 B  B  B  B  B 
B  B 1922 B  12%

Anon B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  B 1175441 B  B  B  B 
B  B  B 9183 B  57%

Exec and libs B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  27106 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 
211 B  B 1%

Page cache B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  185379 B  B  B  B  B  B 
B 1448 B  B 9%

Free (cachelist) B  B  B 
B  B  341181 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 2665
B  16%

Free (freelist) B  B  B 
B  B  B 101282 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 
791 B  B 5%



Total B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  2076455 B  B  B  B 
B  B  16222

Physical B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B 2011504 B  B  B  B  B 
B  15714

> $q



# pwd

/opt/DTraceToolkit-0.99/Mem

# ls

Readme B  B  B  B  B minfbyproc.d
B  B swapinfo.d B  B  B vmstat.d

anonpgpid.d B  B  pgpginbypid.d
B  vmbypid.d B  B  B  xvmstat

minfbypid.d B  B  pgpginbyproc.d
B vmstat-p.d

# ./swapinfo.d

RAM B _______Total 16256 MB

RAM B  B  B Unusable B 
B 33 MB

RAM B  B  B  B Kernel
10499 MB

RAM B  B  B  B Locked
B  B  2 MB

RAM B  B  B  B  B Used
B 2769 MB

RAM B  B  B  B  B Free
B 2950 MB



Disk _______Total 16384 MB

Disk B  B  B  B  Resv
B 1553 MB

Disk B  B  B  B Avail
14831 MB



Swap _______Total 20076 MB

Swap B  B  B  B  Resv
B 1553 MB

Swap B  B  B  B Avail
18523 MB

Swap B  B (Minfree) B 2027
MB



Why twoB  kernel value difference ?




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From cqlin at yahoo.cn  Sun Jan 18 23:30:22 2009
From: cqlin at yahoo.cn (Linchq)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:30:22 +0800 (CST)
Subject: about kernel
In-Reply-To: <996018.71675.qm@web92204.mail.cnh.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <529367.41078.qm@web92207.mail.cnh.yahoo.com>

#
mdb -k

Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix
specfs dtrace ufs sd mpt px ldc ip hook neti sctp arp usba fcp fctl emlxs
nca md ssd lofs zfs random logindmux ptm cpc sppp crypto fcip nfs ipc ]

> ::memstat -d

Usage: memstat

> ::memstat

Page Summary B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B Pages B  B  B  B  B  B 
B  B MB B %Tot

------------ B  B  ----------------
B ---------------- B ----

Kernel B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  246066 B  B  B  B  B 
B  B 1922 B  12%

Anon B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  B 1175441 B  B  B  B 
B  B  B 9183 B  57%

Exec and libs B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  27106 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 
211 B  B 1%

Page cache B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  185379 B  B  B  B  B  B 
B 1448 B  B 9%

Free (cachelist) B  B  B 
B  B  341181 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 2665
B  16%

Free (freelist) B  B  B 
B  B  B 101282 B  B  B  B  B  B  B 
791 B  B 5%



Total B  B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B  2076455 B  B  B  B 
B  B  16222

Physical B  B  B  B 
B  B  B  B  B 2011504 B  B  B  B  B 
B  15714

> $q


=========================================================
# pwd

/opt/DTraceToolkit-0.99/Mem

# ls

Readme B  B  B  B  B minfbyproc.d
B  B swapinfo.d B  B  B vmstat.d

anonpgpid.d B  B  pgpginbypid.d
B  vmbypid.d B  B  B  xvmstat

minfbypid.d B  B  pgpginbyproc.d
B vmstat-p.d

# ./swapinfo.d

RAM B _______Total 16256 MB

RAM B  B  B Unusable B 
B 33 MB

RAM B  B  B  B Kernel
10499 MB

RAM B  B  B  B Locked
B  B  2 MB

RAM B  B  B  B  B Used
B 2769 MB

RAM B  B  B  B  B Free
B 2950 MB



Disk _______Total 16384 MB

Disk B  B  B  B  Resv
B 1553 MB

Disk B  B  B  B Avail
14831 MB



Swap _______Total 20076 MB

Swap B  B  B  B  Resv
B 1553 MB

Swap B  B  B  B Avail
18523 MB

Swap B  B (Minfree) B 2027
MB


Why the   kernel value difference ?
Thanks!



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From lolade14 at yahoo.com  Mon Jan 19 05:31:42 2009
From: lolade14 at yahoo.com (lolade banjo)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:31:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: suspecting my ports
Message-ID: <717134.86249.qm@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Thanks for the asistance of last year
please i need support on this issue, the
blackboard application am administrating suddenly will not do collaboration
with systems connection from outside the network,  am suspecting that one of
the ports alowing this might be closed can you tell me what i need to type to
know which port is active and which is not.

I apprectiate your help.

Thanks 
 Lolade Banjo
08023036876,018776427
O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ ---
Bb LMS
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From ifot at forthnet.gr  Mon Jan 19 08:15:56 2009
From: ifot at forthnet.gr (Giannis Fotopoulos)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:15:56 +0200
Subject: devfsadm problem
Message-ID: <13C09D825FB24FB3A22A72098E789408@in.forthnet.gr>

Hi everyone,

I am having the exact same problem when running devfsadm. We have many 
T2000, but on one of them, that is connected to our SAN, devfsadm reports no 
new disks. If a configuration reboot is done, the system reports the new 
disk. But only with a reboot. We have Solaris10 installed and Veritas VxVM 
and emulex LPe11000-M4 (all T2000 we use have the same emulex cards and same 
firmware revision). We have also checked /kernel/drv/sd.conf and it is 
exactly the same as on all other working T2000s that use the same cX and 
targets and LUNs.

The output of cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev retrurns:

cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported



#cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant 
Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured 
unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 disk         connected    configured 
unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured 
unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured 
unknown
usb0/1                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb0/2                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/1.1                       unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/1.2                       unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/1.3                       unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/1.4                       unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/2                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok


Which does not show the other controllers c4,c5
Here is the device path of two SAN disks on this system:
/devices/pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 8/fibre-channel at 0/sd at 4,0 and
/devices/pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 9/fibre-channel at 0/sd at 4,0

One other thing I would like to point out, is that we are having the exact 
same problem on a Sun-Fire-V245 with Solaris9. The only thing that these two 
servers have in common, as of our system configuration, is that the local 
system disks are mirrored with hardware RAID. When given the "format" 
command, this disk is shown as follows:

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <LSILOGIC-LogicalVolume-3000 cyl 65533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 136>
          /pci at 780/pci at 0/pci at 9/scsi at 0/sd at 0,0


Don't know if that has anything to do with this, but I thought I should 
mention it.

Some general information on the system:

#cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC
           Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 14 November 2006
#uname -a
SunOS "hostname" 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200



Any help would be appreciated. 

From asiye.yigit at gantek.com  Mon Jan 19 14:20:14 2009
From: asiye.yigit at gantek.com (Asiye Yigit)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:14 +0200
Subject: OS upgrade in sun cluster 3.1 Update 4
Message-ID: <EC79C5A11A89A54FA0896E9513C30B2A513719@ganexch.gantek.local>

Hello All,

We need to upgrade OS release from solaris 8 to solaris 10.

Do you suggest any guide for this purpose?

Do you also recommend to upgrade sun cluster 3.1 to sun cluster 3.2?

Regards,

From AJ.Venter at intecbilling.com  Fri Jan 16 02:33:31 2009
From: AJ.Venter at intecbilling.com (AJ Venter)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:33:31 +0200
Subject: Can one recover the ZFS filesystem that used to be on a
  disk ?
Message-ID: <D61D1794DE72024AAE70841A3298091601FCCF1C@IBCPTEX01.intecbilling.com>

Hi all,
Thanks for the advice so far, it got me a bit further. The downside is -
because of the erronous attempt to recreate a pool on the same device,
indeed I found that zpool import -D could only get back said empty pool.

However, this got me thinking, while I don't have backups of the data on
the pool, I DO have a full backup of the server itself, including /dev
etc.
Though these are SAN drives, is there a chance that if I could restore
the device file from backup BEFORE any of this, I could reimport it with
the old header ?
I did do a restore of the /dev/dsk directory (to a different location)
but I think I'm misreading the manpage (or the idea doesn't work)
because when I ran zpool import on the new location it found no pools
whatsoever there (regardless of -D there or not).

I tried to do a full path to the device, but it says no such pool
available.

So the question is - can I use a device file directly and import it ? At
least if I could I could see if it would work this way.
If I cannot, is there something else I could do ? Some other part of the
OS I could restore to recover the filesystem header information so I
could import the correct version of the zpool ?

Thanks for the help so far, and hopefully this will help further.
I should mention that I ordered software support from SUN as well to try
and recover it but I don't yet know when I'll see an engineer, and of
course everything I learn along the way here is less time before they
can give me answer.

Ciao
A.J.

> _____________________________________________
> From: 	AJ Venter
> Sent:	15 January 2009 12:48 PM
> To:	'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:	Can one recover the ZFS filesystem that used to be on a
> disk ?
>
> Hi everyone,
> Here's the situation I'm in, I inheritted a 150Gb ZFS filesystem from
> a previous admin at my company. Said filesystem was unmirrored and
> located on a single SAN disk, and in turn allocated to a zone.
>
> A request was made to add another 100Gb to the filesystem.
>
> Not being an expert on ZFS, I opted to go and RTFM, which I did a lot
> off, finally I went with what looked like the right answer, just
> create a SAN lun with a 100Gb available and add it to the zpool, did
> so - device was there, space didn't increase (which the manual said it
> should).
>
> Oh dear...
>
> I dug and dug but only found out later why it was happening (I was
> adding the toplevel device name instead of the backup slice.
>
> By then however I had been moving on to what would have been step two
> - create a lun eith 250Gb on it, add it to the zone using the replace
> command and thus get a mirror of the old one onto the new big one.
> Unfortunately I made my next big mistake here - I unbound the defunct
> 100Gb LUN on the SAN side at this point - and found out only after
> this that you cannot remove a disk from a zone without mirroring.
> Zone was corrupted. So I ran a zpool destroy on it, recreated the pool
> with the new 250Gb disk, didn't see any space went and dug and finally
> found out what I had been doing wrong all along.
>
> So now I have a pool with the right space... but none of the old data
> in it. The LUN which held the orriginal data is still there though,
> just not in a pool at the moment.
> I tried to do zpool import devicename on it - to no avail. I tried to
> do a zpool create but it shows as empty.
>
> I believe the data should still be on the disk, after all - it wasn't
> overwritten by anything, so I am wondering if there is a way to
> recover that zfs filesystem so I can move the data onto the new pool
> (or something similar).
> Just to add fuel to the fire, I went and looked at our backup system
> and it turns out the previous admin had done something very stupid...
> he excluded the zone filesystems from the backup system - which means
> I cannot restore from backups as there aren't any.
>
> So I am really hoping there is a way to recover the data from the old
> LUN. Any ZFS experts who can help me ?
>
> Ciao
> A.J.

From veramontaro at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 19:32:09 2009
From: veramontaro at gmail.com (Vera Montaro)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:09 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Printing Software
Message-ID: <72fbfb890901191632t7e2df39cg40f2054c90c076dd@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for your help on this issue. I did not have any recommendations for
the commercial product. Most of you recommended not to drop CUPS. Some of
you suggested the following packages to work with HP printers:

SOL1034.pkg
SOLe118.PKG

SOLd621.PKG


HP discontinued these packages but you can use them anyway. I found this
link to download these packages:
http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?d=&l=en&m=999&o=d&p=&p2=&q=pkg&s1=&s2=&submit=Go&t=x

I am wondering what are the differences between these three packages? ( I
guess I have to google more about these packages). I am not sure if these
packages work with CUPS. If anyone knows how to setup these packages with
CUPS, please help me. I will try on my test machine and post a follow-up
summary later. Thanks.

Vera





>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Vera Montaro <veramontaro at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We just migrated all production servers from HP-UX to SUN Solaris 10v5.
>> Things are good except production printing. We have about 125 network
>> printers in eight location within the city. To accommodate the complicated
>> printing environment we decided to go with CUPS printing to resolve some
>> of
>> the -o options printing that migrated from hp-ux. The problem is some of
>> our
>> laser printers either too old or ppd drivers don't work at all. I have
>> searched and found the correct ppd drivers for the printer models but most
>> of ppd drivers don't work even the correct model ppd files.
>>
>> I am tired of managing CUPS that none of us has any expertise. My boss is
>> willing to spend money to have a commercial print management software for
>> solaris with full support. Do you know of any? Please share with me.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Vera
>> _______________________________________________
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>> sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
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From tanvirscna at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 20 10:00:19 2009
From: tanvirscna at yahoo.com (Mohammed 10vir)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:00:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Not able to see devices - D240
Message-ID: <815694.32482.qm@web37006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear,
I have new Sun Netra T2000 and Storage D240, I install the Solaris 10
5/8, everything looking okay then I connect new Storage D240 but I am
not able to see the devices on solaris, also I tried with OK prompt
with show-disks, probe-scsi-all but showing nothing. 

Any suggestion or producer to follow .. ?



Thanks
Mohammed Tanvir

From mid.xinef at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 19:14:17 2009
From: mid.xinef at gmail.com (Midgard)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:14:17 -0600
Subject: core issue in /var/fm/fmd/
Message-ID: <907c65c90901211614t4ca8f4bmfd19a56a76c30258@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Admins

I have a m5000 and I see that there is a core file that is heavy, the path
is:     /var/fm/fmd/

So, I see that under this path are log files and a core file:

-bash-3.00$ du -sh *
   0K   ckpt
 1.7G   core.fmd.695
 8.3M   errlog
  13M   errlog.0
  13M   errlog.1
  13M   errlog.2
  13M   errlog.3
  13M   errlog.4
  13M   errlog.5
  17M   errlog.6
  13M   errlog.7
  13M   errlog.8
  13M   errlog.9
   1K   fltlog
   0K   rsrc
   0K   xprt


-bash-3.00$ ls -l
total 3940616
drwx------   3 root     sys          512 Jun  1  2008 ckpt
-rw-------   1 root     root     1863680000 Dec  5 22:20 core.fmd.695
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     8731718 Jan 21 18:02 errlog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14086318 Jan 21 03:09 errlog.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14081398 Jan 20 03:09 errlog.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14079758 Jan 19 03:09 errlog.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14083038 Jan 18 03:09 errlog.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14084678 Jan 17 03:09 errlog.4
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Jan 16 03:09 errlog.5
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     17364678 Jan 15 03:09 errlog.6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14069918 Dec  5 03:09 errlog.7
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Dec  4 03:09 errlog.8
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Dec  3 03:09 errlog.9
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         361 Nov  8  2007 fltlog
drwx------   2 root     sys          512 Dec  5 22:20 rsrc
drwx------   2 root     sys          512 Nov  8  2007 xprt


I see search for some documentation about SFM (System Fault Management), but
I can't find something that help me,

There are some information about my system and my services:

SunOS my-hostname 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

-bash-3.00$ svcs -d svc:/system/fmd:default
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/sysevent:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/dumpadm:default
maintenance    Apr_23   svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default

-bash-3.00$ svcs -l svc:/system/fmd:default
fmri         svc:/system/fmd:default
name         Solaris Fault Manager
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   Fri Dec 05 22:20:45 2008
logfile      /var/svc/log/system-fmd:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  13661
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp (maintenance)
dependency   require_all/none file://localhost/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/sysevent (online)
svc:/system/filesystem/minimal (online) svc:/system/dumpadm (online)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/network/rpc/bind (online)
-bash-3.00$

-bash-3.00$ tail -f /var/svc/log/system-fmd:default.log
fmd: failed to register rpc service on ticots
[ Apr 14 10:01:04 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Apr 23 15:02:59 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Apr 23 15:03:00 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Executing start method ("/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd") ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:40 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:42 Stopping because process dumped core. ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:42 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:44 Executing start method ("/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd") ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:45 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]


-bash-3.00$ svcs svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp
STATE          STIME    FMRI
maintenance    Apr_23   svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default
-bash-3.00$ svcs -l svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp
fmri         svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default
name         DSCP Service
enabled      true
state        maintenance
next_state   none
state_time   Wed Apr 23 16:04:39 2008
logfile      /var/svc/log/platform-sun4u-dscp:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id
dependency   require_any/error svc:/milestone/network (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/platform/sun4u/sckmd:default (online)
-bash-3.00$ tail -f /var/svc/log/platform-sun4u-dscp:default.log
[ Apr 14 10:01:03 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:01:37 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 51 ]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 81 ]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 82 ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]


Can I delete the core file and log files with out problems?, and why did it
appears?, is it critical situation this issue?


an extra information, I applied patches on April 23.

Thanks in advance!

Mid

From tanvirscna at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 22 21:21:20 2009
From: tanvirscna at yahoo.com (Mohammed 10vir)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:21:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Need packages of Oracle 10g RAC for Solaris 10
Message-ID: <365441.54346.qm@web37002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi,
Can you please give the links for following packages have to download ...

SUNWudlmr
SUNWudlm
SUNWscucm
ORCLudlm


Thanks
Mohammed Tanvir

From kynaston at gmail.com  Fri Jan 23 09:35:59 2009
From: kynaston at gmail.com (Roger Kynaston)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:35:59 +0000
Subject: configuring cpu pools in zones
Message-ID: <d596bfd20901230635m3f13cb7ap727fdd2b0f04936e@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings Managers
I have a problem here and would welcome any input on it.  We have an
application that requires that it's daemon should be able to bind to a
specific cpu resource.  On our setup we use a very dynamic resource
management model which is causing this daemon to crash when the cpu resource
it is bound to is allocated elsewhere.

I am proposing to set up a static pool with cpu.pinned to allow for this.

My question is whether I can do this while leaving the other cpu resources
dynamically allocated for the other zones running on this server.

Apologies if this is overly simple but I have not had any luck with finding
out about this from google or docs.sun.com.

The hardware is a T5220 and we are on solaris 8/07

Thanks in advance.

Roger Kynaston

From GT4NE1 at gmail.com  Fri Jan 23 10:49:39 2009
From: GT4NE1 at gmail.com (GT4NE1)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:49:39 -0800
Subject: Complete Audit of SunOS 5.6
Message-ID: <bcfdf4910901230749j5c927178yf7630ff48f06628d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I'm in charge of trying to replace a legacy SunOS 5.6 Enterprise 3000
server that has been around since the beginning of time.  I would like
to perform a full audit of services, users, connections, etc... that
are being used on this box.  I could script all of this out, but I
don't want to re-invent the wheel.  Anyone know if there are any
existing scripts/app out there that will do this?

Thanks,

-GT

From jdd at cs.toronto.edu  Sat Jan 24 00:30:02 2009
From: jdd at cs.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:30:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers
Message-ID: <20090124053002.2111B6E0003@apps0.cs.toronto.edu>

Archive-name: sunmanagers-before-posting
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From Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com  Sat Jan 24 01:18:36 2009
From: Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com (Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:18:36 +0800
Subject: Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office. 
Message-ID: <OFBDCFBB63.8C622FA6-ON48257548.0022A982-48257548.0022A982@seagate.com>

I will be out of the office starting  01/22/2009 and will not return until
01/29/2009.

Any issues, please email to sga.notes at seagate.com. I will respond to your
email when I'm back, if required. Thanks & Have A Nice Day!

From aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi  Mon Jan 26 02:37:35 2009
From: aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi (Aleks Feltin)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:37:35 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: fcp:fcp_offline_delay
In-Reply-To: <20090114074804.GA29006@dev.scms.fi>
References: <20090114074804.GA29006@dev.scms.fi>
Message-ID: <20090126073735.GA24535@dev.scms.fi>

Thanks to everyone who found time to answer

Nelyubin Anatoly
hike
Antony Pavlenko
Sengor

We use MPxIO and the best /etc/system settings (recommended by EMC support
matrix) for us are:

forceload: drv/ssd
set ssd:ssd_max_throttle=20
set ssd:ssd_io_time=0x78
set maxphys=1048576
set fcp:fcp_offline_delay = 20

regards,

Aleks F.

On 14/01/09 09:48 +0200, Aleks Feltin wrote:
>Hi Managers,
>
>I am on Solaris 10 connected to Symmetrix SAN.
>What happened recently was a SAN firmware upgrade, which caused small delay
>(5-10 seconds).
>As a result, qlc HBAs were offlined and all LUNs have been lost hence the
>mounts were gone.
>With forceLIP it succeeded to get them back without rebooting.
>
>My major concern is how to avoid such situations in future.
>How to force Solaris not to offline HBAs for let's say 20-30 seconds and
keep
>filesystem mounted during short maintenances?
>
>Very first thing I came up to was fcp_offline_delay parameter. It is set to
20
>seconds by default, but it is clear enough that downtime took significantly
>less time. I puzzled what should I tune to achieve my major objective.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
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From kynaston at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 16:51:57 2009
From: kynaston at gmail.com (Roger Kynaston)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:51:57 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: configuring pools in solaris zones
Message-ID: <497E307D.7090203@gmail.com>

Greetings Managers
Thanks to JayJay for response.

The solution is (fortunately) quite simple.  We allocated cpus to a 
static pool and used the cpu.pinned directive to ensure that we get a 
definite cpu.  The rest of the zones can still use dynamic resource 
pools.  Now we just have to hope that this fixes our problem with this 
application!

Regards
Roger

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From rachid.boukhari at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 13:57:12 2009
From: rachid.boukhari at gmail.com (Rachid BOUKHARI)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:57:12 +0000
Subject: JVM monitoring
Message-ID: <85ec26a30901271057j419aac97xd77b071dc87e28b6@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gurus,

Any tools to monitor JVM heap size .

Regards,

From gouthamlabs at gmail.com  Wed Jan 28 11:00:58 2009
From: gouthamlabs at gmail.com (Goutham N)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:30:58 +0530
Subject: Dynamic Domain Testing on M5000 Server
Message-ID: <488e2be40901280800t5ea27626o5b97c93c69a96999@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Sun Managers,

Have any one tested/utilized Dynamic Domain feature available in M5000
series servers.  If so, can you please share (or) point me to
the appropriate documentations available on it for our understanding.

Thanks a Ton!

Regards,
N. Gowthaman.

From toml at engr.orst.edu  Wed Jan 28 11:08:47 2009
From: toml at engr.orst.edu (Tom Lieuallen)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:08:47 -0800
Subject: SUMMARY: zfs rootpool degraded and migration
In-Reply-To: <497006F3.2030902@engr.orst.edu>
References: <497006F3.2030902@engr.orst.edu>
Message-ID: <4980830F.5000405@engr.orst.edu>

I didn't get a single hit from this mail. :-(

The zfs root file system finally reached a point of no return.  I didn't 
have a chance to try reseating the drives or anything.  The machine 
crashed and wouldn't boot again, so we just replaced both disks.

For the migration issue...  I had installed the OS on machine2, then we 
popped it (a single disk at this point) into machine1.  As before, it 
failed to boot, saying that the zfs pool 'rootpool' was last mounted on 
a different machine (machine2).  So, I booted off the network into 
single user.  Then ran 'zpool import -f rootpool'.  Then I rebooted off 
the disk and all was fine.

There may be a better procedure, but this does work.

FYI

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University

Tom Lieuallen wrote:
> I have a V120 running Solaris 10 U6.  I decided to use a zfs root file 
> system so that I could mirror without all the solstice pieces.  I 
> installed the OS, then attached the second drive after the OS was up 
> (zpool attach...).  It appears that the resilvering had problems.
> 
> # zpool status
>    pool: rootpool
>   state: DEGRADED
> status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
>          corruption.  Applications may be affected.
> action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
>          entire pool from backup.
>     see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
>   scrub: resilver completed after 0h41m with 51926 errors on Wed Dec 31 
> 13:05:02
> 2008
> config:
> 
>          NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>          rootpool      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>            mirror      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>              c0t0d0s0  FAULTED     20     0     0  too many errors
>              c0t1d0s0  DEGRADED     0     1  216K  too many errors
> 
> errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:
> 
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curl.h
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curlver.h
> ...
> <ad nausea>
> ...
> 
> # zfs list
> NAME                            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rootpool                       13.3G  19.9G    94K  /rootpool
> rootpool/ROOT                  4.25G  19.9G    18K  legacy
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6      4.25G  19.9G  4.17G  /
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6/var  83.3M  19.9G  83.3M  /var
> rootpool/a1                    2.75G  5.25G  2.75G  /a1
> rootpool/dump                  2.00G  19.9G  2.00G  -
> rootpool/private                341M  5.67G   341M  /private
> rootpool/swap                     4G  23.9G    16K  -
> 
> # iostat -e
>             ---- errors ---
> device    s/w h/w trn tot
> ramdisk1    0   0   0   0
> sd0         0 129 487 616
> sd3         0 256 877 1133
> nfs1        0   0   0   0
> 
> The system logs report scsi bus resets and read and write errors for 
> both disks.  I assume one of the disks is causing problems for 
> everything on the bus.
> 
> The 'faulted' disk is the one with the original OS.  The files it is 
> reporting problems with are all on rootpool/a1.  There's only ~50,000 of 
> them.  That's just a copy of our /usr/local, so there's nothing there I 
> need.
> 
> Should we just shut the machine down/off, reseat both disks, and hope 
> for the best?  I'm concerned it won't boot again. :-(  Or, if we try to 
> hot-plug one of the disks, it may panic too.
> 
> I have another related question...
> 
> I'd like to prepare another disk or two to slap into this host in case 
> it's not repairable or in case something I do makes things worse. :-) 
> What is the proper procedure for installing a machine with zfs root, 
> then moving that disk to another host?  I did this once before and it 
> complained about the zpool being last used by a different host.  I ended 
> up booting off the net and forcing the import.  To simplify matters, 
> should I boot the temporary install host off the net and export the 
> zpool?  Or should I just be prepared to force the import?
> 
> thank you
> 
> Tom Lieuallen
> Oregon State University
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From stan at temple.edu  Wed Jan 28 11:33:10 2009
From: stan at temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:10 -0500
Subject: Problem with wrong autonegation on a T1000
Message-ID: <C5A5F2F6.2A5FC%stan@temple.edu>

Greetings Sun Managers;

I have a Sun T2000 with Solaris 10 on it. This server has been in production
since 11/2007 and its been running great since. As you can see from ...

# ndd -get /dev/e1000g0 1000hdx_cap
1
# ndd -get /dev/e1000g1 1000hdx_cap
1

both ports are set for auto-negotiation. The ports on our switch to which
this T2000's NICs are connected are set to 1GB auto-negotiation. The
connections should both be running at 1000 full duplex. This T2000 is used
for NetWorker backups. It was rebooted this past Sunday morning and it came
up fine, but since then, its throughput has been much too slow.

I am very green behind the ears with Solaris systems management, so I am at
a loss as to why this problem has occurred. I looked through the FAQ file
for this list and I found out about the ndd utility, but I don't see how to
use it to fix this problem or if some other tool would be appropriate.
Googling has just given me a bunch of information that's cryptic to me.

What I need to know is how to set the ports to 1GB again, preferably without
any service interruptions. I also need to know why the auto-negotiation is
incorrect and how to prevent this issue from occurring again. If anyone has
any thoughts on this matter, please let me know.

From Raymond.Lee at qwest.com  Wed Jan 28 12:54:57 2009
From: Raymond.Lee at qwest.com (Lee, Raymond)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:54:57 -0600
Subject: Multiple read errors on StorEdge 3910
Message-ID: <6EC7953652E1704A8CF85C0C0CC80407052E94C5@itomae2km09.AD.QINTRA.COM>

Hi Managers,

I've got 2 SunFire V1280s running Sun Cluster 3.1.  They're connected to
a StorEdge 3910 array that is spitting out read errors when it does a
vol verify.  Here are some of the errors:

(these keep repeating on the same 3 disks)
Jan 28 01:30:41 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d09 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d03 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d01 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.


(these keep repeating for the same 2 stripes)
Jan 27 14:45:08 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4365949 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.
Jan 27 14:43:01 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4360575 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.


I logged into the T3 in question, and 'fru stat', 'fru list', 'vol stat'
all look fine.  I recently had a failed u2d01 which was replaced and
reconstructed successfully from the spare.


I opened a case with Sun about this, and this is what they had to say:

"Problem is that there are multiple drive media errors across stripe
units. Normally a reconstruct of the stripe will yield the data needed
for the host and the errors will be marked on the drive. Next writes to
that LBA will reallocate the errors (drive function) but only if there
is a single drive reporting the error for that stripe unit. Since there
are multiple drives in that stripe unit reporting errors you have a
multiple drive error that is reported back to the host as a failed read
io operation.

The only thing you can do is backup the affected volumes and
re-initialize (re-create) and restore the data.

He then stated the following as your only 2 choices from this point out:

1. Customer can use his DB or FS utilities to find out what file or
files are affected by read operations and re-write those files. You
should then get corresponding data reallocations on the array and then
monitor the array.

2. Backup data, blow away volumes on tray 2, recreate volumes,
initialize volumes, recreate slices, restore data."


Does anyone have any other suggestions to fix the read errors?  If I
have to choose between the two options Sun gave, I'd rather go with
option 1, but how would I go about doing that?  It seems like trying to
find a needle in a haystack.  Sun wasn't very helpful with that...just
gave me a man page of the 'find' command.  I want to avoid option 2 if
at all possible because it'll be too time and resource-consuming.

Thanks,
Ray


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From David at Schoolloop.com  Wed Jan 28 13:17:04 2009
From: David at Schoolloop.com (David L Kensiski)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:04 -0800
Subject: Solaris cannot see all drives on Areca RAID controller
Message-ID: <D954169D-956E-413D-890E-4D7F9C551049@Schoolloop.com>

I am running Solaris 10 x86 u6 (10/2008) on a SuperMicro PDSME+ with  
an Areca ARC-1280ML 24-channel RAID controller.  The RAID controller  
is configured in JBOD mode with drives in channels 1 - 8 and 24.  
Solaris can only see the drives on channels 1 through 8.  The RAID  
BIOS says the drive on channel 24 is at SCSI Ch/Id/Lun  : 0/23/0.  I  
have modified /kernel/drv/sd.conf to include entries through target 23:

name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
...
name="sd" class="scsi" target=23 lun=0;

I tried running devfsadm as well as a reconfigure reboot, but still  
cannot see the device at target 23.  How can I expose this drive to  
Solaris?

Thanks,
--Dave

From Alex_GALEA at engin.com.au  Wed Jan 28 16:50:29 2009
From: Alex_GALEA at engin.com.au (Galea, Alex)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:29 +1100
Subject: 300GB disk in Sun v440
Message-ID: <396D6203BB059B419E8FDC27997C4AD701BF2B86@ffex1.engin.com.au>

Managers,

I have a SUN fire V440 or two that I would like to chock full of disk.
Currently each have 4 x 72GB internal disks.
I would like to replace these with SUN 300GB disk but can not find any
supporting information.
I have been told that it should work.

Has anyone configured V440's in this way? and the big question will SUN
support it?

Thanks,

Alex

From sathish.sundaravel at in.ibm.com  Wed Jan 28 15:24:18 2009
From: sathish.sundaravel at in.ibm.com (Sathish Sundaravel)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:54:18 +0530
Subject: sunmanagers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 11
In-Reply-To: <mailman.756.1232775061.277.sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <OFA2545E2A.F8F75309-ON6525754C.006FBF7F-6525754C.00700924@in.ibm.com>

Hi Friends,
     I am getting the below error on the server very frequently. Could you
please help out what i need to do to fix the issue.

Error Message

" [ID 517869 kern.warning] WARNING: 3050854=>fp(0)::PLOGI to 4c1900 failed.
state=e reason=5. "

I have checked the connectivity of HBA's and seems to be fine.

/devices/pci at 19c,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 19d,700000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 1bc,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 1bd,700000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 21c,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 21d,700000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 23c,600000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED
/devices/pci at 23d,700000/SUNW,qlc at 1/fp at 0,0:devctl
CONNECTED

Please assist me.


regards
Sathish Sundaravel


Sathish Sundaravel | System Admin | SSO b Midrange UNIX |B  - ITD b Global
Delivery , India







                                                                           
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:14 +0200
From: "Asiye Yigit" <asiye.yigit at gantek.com>
Subject: OS upgrade in sun cluster 3.1 Update 4
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:
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Hello All,

We need to upgrade OS release from solaris 8 to solaris 10.

Do you suggest any guide for this purpose?

Do you also recommend to upgrade sun cluster 3.1 to sun cluster 3.2?

Regards,


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:33:31 +0200
From: "AJ Venter" <AJ.Venter at intecbilling.com>
Subject: RE: Can one recover the ZFS filesystem that used to be on a
             disk ?
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:

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Hi all,
Thanks for the advice so far, it got me a bit further. The downside is -
because of the erronous attempt to recreate a pool on the same device,
indeed I found that zpool import -D could only get back said empty pool.

However, this got me thinking, while I don't have backups of the data on
the pool, I DO have a full backup of the server itself, including /dev
etc.
Though these are SAN drives, is there a chance that if I could restore
the device file from backup BEFORE any of this, I could reimport it with
the old header ?
I did do a restore of the /dev/dsk directory (to a different location)
but I think I'm misreading the manpage (or the idea doesn't work)
because when I ran zpool import on the new location it found no pools
whatsoever there (regardless of -D there or not).

I tried to do a full path to the device, but it says no such pool
available.

So the question is - can I use a device file directly and import it ? At
least if I could I could see if it would work this way.
If I cannot, is there something else I could do ? Some other part of the
OS I could restore to recover the filesystem header information so I
could import the correct version of the zpool ?

Thanks for the help so far, and hopefully this will help further.
I should mention that I ordered software support from SUN as well to try
and recover it but I don't yet know when I'll see an engineer, and of
course everything I learn along the way here is less time before they
can give me answer.

Ciao
A.J.

> _____________________________________________
> From:            AJ Venter
> Sent:            15 January 2009 12:48 PM
> To:        'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
> Subject:         Can one recover the ZFS filesystem that used to be on a
> disk ?
>
> Hi everyone,
> Here's the situation I'm in, I inheritted a 150Gb ZFS filesystem from
> a previous admin at my company. Said filesystem was unmirrored and
> located on a single SAN disk, and in turn allocated to a zone.
>
> A request was made to add another 100Gb to the filesystem.
>
> Not being an expert on ZFS, I opted to go and RTFM, which I did a lot
> off, finally I went with what looked like the right answer, just
> create a SAN lun with a 100Gb available and add it to the zpool, did
> so - device was there, space didn't increase (which the manual said it
> should).
>
> Oh dear...
>
> I dug and dug but only found out later why it was happening (I was
> adding the toplevel device name instead of the backup slice.
>
> By then however I had been moving on to what would have been step two
> - create a lun eith 250Gb on it, add it to the zone using the replace
> command and thus get a mirror of the old one onto the new big one.
> Unfortunately I made my next big mistake here - I unbound the defunct
> 100Gb LUN on the SAN side at this point - and found out only after
> this that you cannot remove a disk from a zone without mirroring.
> Zone was corrupted. So I ran a zpool destroy on it, recreated the pool
> with the new 250Gb disk, didn't see any space went and dug and finally
> found out what I had been doing wrong all along.
>
> So now I have a pool with the right space... but none of the old data
> in it. The LUN which held the orriginal data is still there though,
> just not in a pool at the moment.
> I tried to do zpool import devicename on it - to no avail. I tried to
> do a zpool create but it shows as empty.
>
> I believe the data should still be on the disk, after all - it wasn't
> overwritten by anything, so I am wondering if there is a way to
> recover that zfs filesystem so I can move the data onto the new pool
> (or something similar).
> Just to add fuel to the fire, I went and looked at our backup system
> and it turns out the previous admin had done something very stupid...
> he excluded the zone filesystems from the backup system - which means
> I cannot restore from backups as there aren't any.
>
> So I am really hoping there is a way to recover the data from the old
> LUN. Any ZFS experts who can help me ?
>
> Ciao
> A.J.


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:09 -0800
From: "Vera Montaro" <veramontaro at gmail.com>
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Printing Software
To: "Sun User Group" <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:
             <72fbfb890901191632t7e2df39cg40f2054c90c076dd at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Thanks for your help on this issue. I did not have any recommendations for
the commercial product. Most of you recommended not to drop CUPS. Some of
you suggested the following packages to work with HP printers:

SOL1034.pkg
SOLe118.PKG

SOLd621.PKG


HP discontinued these packages but you can use them anyway. I found this
link to download these packages:
http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?d=&l=en&m=999&o=d&p=&p2=&q=pkg&s1=&s2=&submit=Go&t=x


I am wondering what are the differences between these three packages? ( I
guess I have to google more about these packages). I am not sure if these
packages work with CUPS. If anyone knows how to setup these packages with
CUPS, please help me. I will try on my test machine and post a follow-up
summary later. Thanks.

Vera





>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Vera Montaro
<veramontaro at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We just migrated all production servers from HP-UX to SUN Solaris 10v5.
>> Things are good except production printing. We have about 125 network
>> printers in eight location within the city. To accommodate the
complicated
>> printing environment we decided to go with CUPS printing to resolve some
>> of
>> the -o options printing that migrated from hp-ux. The problem is some of
>> our
>> laser printers either too old or ppd drivers don't work at all. I have
>> searched and found the correct ppd drivers for the printer models but
most
>> of ppd drivers don't work even the correct model ppd files.
>>
>> I am tired of managing CUPS that none of us has any expertise. My boss
is
>> willing to spend money to have a commercial print management software
for
>> solaris with full support. Do you know of any? Please share with me.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Vera
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:00:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Mohammed 10vir <tanvirscna at yahoo.com>
Subject: Not able to see devices - D240
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <815694.32482.qm at web37006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Dear,
I have new Sun Netra T2000 and Storage D240, I install the Solaris 10
5/8, everything looking okay then I connect new Storage D240 but I am
not able to see the devices on solaris, also I tried with OK prompt
with show-disks, probe-scsi-all but showing nothing.

Any suggestion or producer to follow .. ?



Thanks
Mohammed Tanvir


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:14:17 -0600
From: Midgard <mid.xinef at gmail.com>
Subject: core issue in /var/fm/fmd/
To: sunmanagers <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:
             <907c65c90901211614t4ca8f4bmfd19a56a76c30258 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi Admins

I have a m5000 and I see that there is a core file that is heavy, the path
is:     /var/fm/fmd/

So, I see that under this path are log files and a core file:

-bash-3.00$ du -sh *
   0K   ckpt
 1.7G   core.fmd.695
 8.3M   errlog
  13M   errlog.0
  13M   errlog.1
  13M   errlog.2
  13M   errlog.3
  13M   errlog.4
  13M   errlog.5
  17M   errlog.6
  13M   errlog.7
  13M   errlog.8
  13M   errlog.9
   1K   fltlog
   0K   rsrc
   0K   xprt


-bash-3.00$ ls -l
total 3940616
drwx------   3 root     sys          512 Jun  1  2008 ckpt
-rw-------   1 root     root     1863680000 Dec  5 22:20 core.fmd.695
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     8731718 Jan 21 18:02 errlog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14086318 Jan 21 03:09 errlog.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14081398 Jan 20 03:09 errlog.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14079758 Jan 19 03:09 errlog.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14083038 Jan 18 03:09 errlog.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14084678 Jan 17 03:09 errlog.4
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Jan 16 03:09 errlog.5
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     17364678 Jan 15 03:09 errlog.6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14069918 Dec  5 03:09 errlog.7
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Dec  4 03:09 errlog.8
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     14089598 Dec  3 03:09 errlog.9
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         361 Nov  8  2007 fltlog
drwx------   2 root     sys          512 Dec  5 22:20 rsrc
drwx------   2 root     sys          512 Nov  8  2007 xprt


I see search for some documentation about SFM (System Fault Management),
but
I can't find something that help me,

There are some information about my system and my services:

SunOS my-hostname 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

-bash-3.00$ svcs -d svc:/system/fmd:default
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/sysevent:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
online         Apr_23   svc:/system/dumpadm:default
maintenance    Apr_23   svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default

-bash-3.00$ svcs -l svc:/system/fmd:default
fmri         svc:/system/fmd:default
name         Solaris Fault Manager
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   Fri Dec 05 22:20:45 2008
logfile      /var/svc/log/system-fmd:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  13661
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp (maintenance)
dependency   require_all/none file://localhost/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/sysevent (online)
svc:/system/filesystem/minimal (online) svc:/system/dumpadm (online)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/network/rpc/bind (online)
-bash-3.00$

-bash-3.00$ tail -f /var/svc/log/system-fmd:default.log
fmd: failed to register rpc service on ticots
[ Apr 14 10:01:04 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Apr 23 15:02:59 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Apr 23 15:03:00 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Executing start method ("/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd") ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:40 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:42 Stopping because process dumped core. ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:42 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:44 Executing start method ("/usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd") ]
[ Dec  5 22:20:45 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]


-bash-3.00$ svcs svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp
STATE          STIME    FMRI
maintenance    Apr_23   svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default
-bash-3.00$ svcs -l svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp
fmri         svc:/platform/sun4u/dscp:default
name         DSCP Service
enabled      true
state        maintenance
next_state   none
state_time   Wed Apr 23 16:04:39 2008
logfile      /var/svc/log/platform-sun4u-dscp:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id
dependency   require_any/error svc:/milestone/network (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/platform/sun4u/sckmd:default (online)
-bash-3.00$ tail -f /var/svc/log/platform-sun4u-dscp:default.log
[ Apr 14 10:01:03 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:01:37 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 51 ]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:02:38 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 81 ]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
[ Apr 23 16:03:38 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-dscp start")
]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 82 ]
[ Apr 23 16:04:39 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]


Can I delete the core file and log files with out problems?, and why did it
appears?, is it critical situation this issue?


an extra information, I applied patches on April 23.

Thanks in advance!

Mid


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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:21:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Mohammed 10vir <tanvirscna at yahoo.com>
Subject: Need packages of Oracle 10g RAC for Solaris 10
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <365441.54346.qm at web37002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,
Can you please give the links for following packages have to download ...

SUNWudlmr
SUNWudlm
SUNWscucm
ORCLudlm


Thanks
Mohammed Tanvir


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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:35:59 +0000
From: Roger Kynaston <kynaston at gmail.com>
Subject: configuring cpu pools in zones
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
             <d596bfd20901230635m3f13cb7ap727fdd2b0f04936e at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Greetings Managers
I have a problem here and would welcome any input on it.  We have an
application that requires that it's daemon should be able to bind to a
specific cpu resource.  On our setup we use a very dynamic resource
management model which is causing this daemon to crash when the cpu
resource
it is bound to is allocated elsewhere.

I am proposing to set up a static pool with cpu.pinned to allow for this.

My question is whether I can do this while leaving the other cpu resources
dynamically allocated for the other zones running on this server.

Apologies if this is overly simple but I have not had any luck with finding
out about this from google or docs.sun.com.

The hardware is a T5220 and we are on solaris 8/07

Thanks in advance.

Roger Kynaston


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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:49:39 -0800
From: GT4NE1 <GT4NE1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Complete Audit of SunOS 5.6
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
             <bcfdf4910901230749j5c927178yf7630ff48f06628d at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi all,

I'm in charge of trying to replace a legacy SunOS 5.6 Enterprise 3000
server that has been around since the beginning of time.  I would like
to perform a full audit of services, users, connections, etc... that
are being used on this box.  I could script all of this out, but I
don't want to re-invent the wheel.  Anyone know if there are any
existing scripts/app out there that will do this?

Thanks,

-GT


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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:30:02 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers
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From harduong at gmail.com  Thu Jan 29 18:00:34 2009
From: harduong at gmail.com (Hong Duong)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:00:34 -0800
Subject: interface nxge question
Message-ID: <8d07e9af0901291500g3ce23c83xe45fb47c4c52f9be@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Managers,

Which file should I modify to make the interface nxge to stay at 1000 full
duplex permanently.
I only know bge.conf file.

Thanks for your help.

HD

From boomu83 at yahoo.co.in  Fri Jan 30 08:59:27 2009
From: boomu83 at yahoo.co.in (boomu raj)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:29:27 +0530 (IST)
Subject: hai...find me a solution in M5000 server
In-Reply-To: <mailman.134.1233179440.288.sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <492705.78197.qm@web94604.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Hai everyone,
B 
B  I want a some help from yours. I doing some testing activity in M5000
series server.
I got knowledge how to configure domain,network in XSCF.... this server
defautly having SOLARIS OS.
B 
B  MY QUERY IS:
B 
B B B B B  i want to do install one more solaris Over there. My server having
two UNI-XSB.B 
One UNI-XSB , defaultly having OS.B B B 
B 
B B  I want to install OS in another UNI-XSB.
B 
B 
B  CAN ANYONE GUIDE ME.....................
B 
B 
Thanks.
B 
Karthik Bommu Raj


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Today's Topics:

   1. Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.
      (Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com)
   2. SUMMARY: fcp:fcp_offline_delay (Aleks Feltin)
   3. SUMMARY: configuring pools in solaris zones (Roger Kynaston)
   4. JVM monitoring (Rachid BOUKHARI)
   5. Dynamic Domain Testing on M5000 Server (Goutham N)
   6. SUMMARY: zfs rootpool degraded and migration (Tom Lieuallen)
   7. Problem with wrong autonegation on a T1000 (Stan Horwitz)
   8. Multiple read errors on StorEdge 3910 (Lee, Raymond)
   9. Solaris cannot see all drives on Areca RAID controller
      (David L Kensiski)
  10. 300GB disk in Sun v440 (Galea, Alex)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:18:36 +0800
From: Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com
Subject: Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
	<OFBDCFBB63.8C622FA6-ON48257548.0022A982-48257548.0022A982 at seagate.com>

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I will be out of the office starting  01/22/2009 and will not return until
01/29/2009.

Any issues, please email to sga.notes at seagate.com. I will respond to your
email when I'm back, if required. Thanks & Have A Nice Day!


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:37:35 +0200
From: Aleks Feltin <aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi>
Subject: SUMMARY: fcp:fcp_offline_delay
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <20090126073735.GA24535 at dev.scms.fi>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Thanks to everyone who found time to answer

Nelyubin Anatoly
hike
Antony Pavlenko
Sengor

We use MPxIO and the best /etc/system settings (recommended by EMC support
matrix) for us are:

forceload: drv/ssd
set ssd:ssd_max_throttle=20
set ssd:ssd_io_time=0x78
set maxphys=1048576
set fcp:fcp_offline_delay = 20

regards,

Aleks F.

On 14/01/09 09:48 +0200, Aleks Feltin wrote:
>Hi Managers,
>
>I am on Solaris 10 connected to Symmetrix SAN.
>What happened recently was a SAN firmware upgrade, which caused small delay
>(5-10 seconds).
>As a result, qlc HBAs were offlined and all LUNs have been lost hence the
>mounts were gone.
>With forceLIP it succeeded to get them back without rebooting.
>
>My major concern is how to avoid such situations in future.
>How to force Solaris not to offline HBAs for let's say 20-30 seconds
and
keep
>filesystem mounted during short maintenances?
>
>Very first thing I came up to was fcp_offline_delay parameter. It is set to
20
>seconds by default, but it is clear enough that downtime took significantly
>less time. I puzzled what should I tune to achieve my major objective.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:51:57 +0000
From: Roger Kynaston <kynaston at gmail.com>
Subject: SUMMARY: configuring pools in solaris zones
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
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Greetings Managers
Thanks to JayJay for response.

The solution is (fortunately) quite simple.  We allocated cpus to a
static pool and used the cpu.pinned directive to ensure that we get a
definite cpu.  The rest of the zones can still use dynamic resource
pools.  Now we just have to hope that this fixes our problem with this
application!

Regards
Roger

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:57:12 +0000
From: Rachid BOUKHARI <rachid.boukhari at gmail.com>
Subject: JVM monitoring
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
	<85ec26a30901271057j419aac97xd77b071dc87e28b6 at mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Gurus,

Any tools to monitor JVM heap size .

Regards,


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:30:58 +0530
From: Goutham N <gouthamlabs at gmail.com>
Subject: Dynamic Domain Testing on M5000 Server
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
	<488e2be40901280800t5ea27626o5b97c93c69a96999 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear Sun Managers,

Have any one tested/utilized Dynamic Domain feature available in M5000
series servers.  If so, can you please share (or) point me to
the appropriate documentations available on it for our understanding.

Thanks a Ton!

Regards,
N. Gowthaman.


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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:08:47 -0800
From: Tom Lieuallen <toml at engr.orst.edu>
Subject: SUMMARY: zfs rootpool degraded and migration
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <4980830F.5000405 at engr.orst.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

I didn't get a single hit from this mail. :-(

The zfs root file system finally reached a point of no return.  I didn't
have a chance to try reseating the drives or anything.  The machine
crashed and wouldn't boot again, so we just replaced both disks.

For the migration issue...  I had installed the OS on machine2, then we
popped it (a single disk at this point) into machine1.  As before, it
failed to boot, saying that the zfs pool 'rootpool' was last mounted on

a different machine (machine2).  So, I booted off the network into
single user.  Then ran 'zpool import -f rootpool'.  Then I rebooted off

the disk and all was fine.

There may be a better procedure, but this does work.

FYI

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University

Tom Lieuallen wrote:
> I have a V120 running Solaris 10 U6.  I decided to use a zfs root file
> system so that I could mirror without all the solstice pieces.  I
> installed the OS, then attached the second drive after the OS was up
> (zpool attach...).  It appears that the resilvering had problems.
>
> # zpool status
>    pool: rootpool
>   state: DEGRADED
> status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
>          corruption.  Applications may be affected.
> action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
>          entire pool from backup.
>     see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
>   scrub: resilver completed after 0h41m with 51926 errors on Wed Dec 31
> 13:05:02
> 2008
> config:
>
>          NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>          rootpool      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>            mirror      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>              c0t0d0s0  FAULTED     20     0     0  too many errors
>              c0t1d0s0  DEGRADED     0     1  216K  too many errors
>
> errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:
>
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curl.h
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curlver.h
> ...
> <ad nausea>
> ...
>
> # zfs list
> NAME                            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rootpool                       13.3G  19.9G    94K  /rootpool
> rootpool/ROOT                  4.25G  19.9G    18K  legacy
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6      4.25G  19.9G  4.17G  /
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6/var  83.3M  19.9G  83.3M  /var
> rootpool/a1                    2.75G  5.25G  2.75G  /a1
> rootpool/dump                  2.00G  19.9G  2.00G  -
> rootpool/private                341M  5.67G   341M  /private
> rootpool/swap                     4G  23.9G    16K  -
>
> # iostat -e
>             ---- errors ---
> device    s/w h/w trn tot
> ramdisk1    0   0   0   0
> sd0         0 129 487 616
> sd3         0 256 877 1133
> nfs1        0   0   0   0
>
> The system logs report scsi bus resets and read and write errors for
> both disks.  I assume one of the disks is causing problems for
> everything on the bus.
>
> The 'faulted' disk is the one with the original OS.  The files it
is
> reporting problems with are all on rootpool/a1.  There's only ~50,000
of
> them.  That's just a copy of our /usr/local, so there's nothing
there I
> need.
>
> Should we just shut the machine down/off, reseat both disks, and hope
> for the best?  I'm concerned it won't boot again. :-(  Or, if we
try to
> hot-plug one of the disks, it may panic too.
>
> I have another related question...
>
> I'd like to prepare another disk or two to slap into this host in case

> it's not repairable or in case something I do makes things worse. :-)
> What is the proper procedure for installing a machine with zfs root,
> then moving that disk to another host?  I did this once before and it
> complained about the zpool being last used by a different host.  I ended
> up booting off the net and forcing the import.  To simplify matters,
> should I boot the temporary install host off the net and export the
> zpool?  Or should I just be prepared to force the import?
>
> thank you
>
> Tom Lieuallen
> Oregon State University
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:10 -0500
From: Stan Horwitz <stan at temple.edu>
Subject: Problem with wrong autonegation on a T1000
To: Sun Managers list <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <C5A5F2F6.2A5FC%stan at temple.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

Greetings Sun Managers;

I have a Sun T2000 with Solaris 10 on it. This server has been in production
since 11/2007 and its been running great since. As you can see from ...

# ndd -get /dev/e1000g0 1000hdx_cap
1
# ndd -get /dev/e1000g1 1000hdx_cap
1

both ports are set for auto-negotiation. The ports on our switch to which
this T2000's NICs are connected are set to 1GB auto-negotiation. The
connections should both be running at 1000 full duplex. This T2000 is used
for NetWorker backups. It was rebooted this past Sunday morning and it came
up fine, but since then, its throughput has been much too slow.

I am very green behind the ears with Solaris systems management, so I am at
a loss as to why this problem has occurred. I looked through the FAQ file
for this list and I found out about the ndd utility, but I don't see how to
use it to fix this problem or if some other tool would be appropriate.
Googling has just given me a bunch of information that's cryptic to me.

What I need to know is how to set the ports to 1GB again, preferably without
any service interruptions. I also need to know why the auto-negotiation is
incorrect and how to prevent this issue from occurring again. If anyone has
any thoughts on this matter, please let me know.


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:54:57 -0600
From: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee at qwest.com>
Subject: Multiple read errors on StorEdge 3910
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:
	<6EC7953652E1704A8CF85C0C0CC80407052E94C5 at itomae2km09.AD.QINTRA.COM>
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Hi Managers,

I've got 2 SunFire V1280s running Sun Cluster 3.1.  They're connected
to
a StorEdge 3910 array that is spitting out read errors when it does a
vol verify.  Here are some of the errors:

(these keep repeating on the same 3 disks)
Jan 28 01:30:41 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d09 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d03 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d01 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.


(these keep repeating for the same 2 stripes)
Jan 27 14:45:08 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4365949 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.
Jan 27 14:43:01 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4360575 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.


I logged into the T3 in question, and 'fru stat', 'fru list',
'vol stat'
all look fine.  I recently had a failed u2d01 which was replaced and
reconstructed successfully from the spare.


I opened a case with Sun about this, and this is what they had to say:

"Problem is that there are multiple drive media errors across stripe
units. Normally a reconstruct of the stripe will yield the data needed
for the host and the errors will be marked on the drive. Next writes to
that LBA will reallocate the errors (drive function) but only if there
is a single drive reporting the error for that stripe unit. Since there
are multiple drives in that stripe unit reporting errors you have a
multiple drive error that is reported back to the host as a failed read
io operation.

The only thing you can do is backup the affected volumes and
re-initialize (re-create) and restore the data.

He then stated the following as your only 2 choices from this point out:

1. Customer can use his DB or FS utilities to find out what file or
files are affected by read operations and re-write those files. You
should then get corresponding data reallocations on the array and then
monitor the array.

2. Backup data, blow away volumes on tray 2, recreate volumes,
initialize volumes, recreate slices, restore data."


Does anyone have any other suggestions to fix the read errors?  If I
have to choose between the two options Sun gave, I'd rather go with
option 1, but how would I go about doing that?  It seems like trying to
find a needle in a haystack.  Sun wasn't very helpful with that...just
gave me a man page of the 'find' command.  I want to avoid option 2 if
at all possible because it'll be too time and resource-consuming.

Thanks,
Ray


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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:04 -0800
From: David L Kensiski <David at Schoolloop.com>
Subject: Solaris cannot see all drives on Areca RAID controller
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <D954169D-956E-413D-890E-4D7F9C551049 at Schoolloop.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

I am running Solaris 10 x86 u6 (10/2008) on a SuperMicro PDSME+ with
an Areca ARC-1280ML 24-channel RAID controller.  The RAID controller
is configured in JBOD mode with drives in channels 1 - 8 and 24.
Solaris can only see the drives on channels 1 through 8.  The RAID
BIOS says the drive on channel 24 is at SCSI Ch/Id/Lun  : 0/23/0.  I
have modified /kernel/drv/sd.conf to include entries through target 23:

name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
....
name="sd" class="scsi" target=23 lun=0;

I tried running devfsadm as well as a reconfigure reboot, but still
cannot see the device at target 23.  How can I expose this drive to
Solaris?

Thanks,
--Dave


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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:29 +1100
From: "Galea, Alex" <Alex_GALEA at engin.com.au>
Subject: 300GB disk in Sun v440
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID:
	<396D6203BB059B419E8FDC27997C4AD701BF2B86 at ffex1.engin.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Managers,

I have a SUN fire V440 or two that I would like to chock full of disk.
Currently each have 4 x 72GB internal disks.
I would like to replace these with SUN 300GB disk but can not find any
supporting information.
I have been told that it should work.

Has anyone configured V440's in this way? and the big question will SUN
support it?

Thanks,

Alex


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From jseymour at linxnet.com  Fri Jan 30 09:13:43 2009
From: jseymour at linxnet.com (Jim Seymour)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:13:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Confusing/Unclear Patchadd Error Message?
Message-ID: <20090130141343.6AB09E129@jimsun.linxnet.com>

Apologies for the tardy summary.

The original question was what does patchadd mean when it tells you,
in effect, "the thing you're trying to install isn't installed yet?"
E.g.:

    Patch: 113886-48 - 5 of 28 - 91981K
    Synopsis: OpenGL 1.3: OpenGL Patch for Solaris (32-bit)

    Checking installed patches...
    One or more patch packages included in
    113886-48 are not installed on this system.

In this case patchadd was telling me that one or more of the patch
packages in the patch package I was trying to apply weren't installed
yet.  Well *duh*, that would be why I'm trying to install the patch
package.

Casper Dik answered first:
| 
| The error message is wrong (it's not just confusing).
| 
| What to means to say is this:
| 
| 	NONE of the packages we try to patch are installed


Which makes a heckuva lot more sense.  Thanks, Casper.  Thanks also to
Tim Bradshaw and Anthony D'Atri for replying.

Regards,
Jim
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From boomu83 at yahoo.co.in  Fri Jan 30 08:54:59 2009
From: boomu83 at yahoo.co.in (boomu raj)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:24:59 +0530 (IST)
Subject: sunmanagers Digest, Vol 22, Issue 12
In-Reply-To: <mailman.134.1233179440.288.sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Message-ID: <193295.40712.qm@web94609.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Hai everyone,
B 
B  I want a some help from yours. I doing some testing activity in M5000
series server.
I got knowledge how to configure domain,network in XSCF.... this server
defautly having SOLARIS OS.
B 
B  MY QUERY IS:
B 
B B B B B  i want to do install one more solaris Over there. My server having
two UNI-XSB.B 
One UNI-XSB , defaultly having OS.B B B 
B 
B B  I want to install OS in another UNI-XSB.
B 
B 
B  CAN ANYONE GUIDE ME.....................
B 
B 
Thanks.
B 
Karthik Bommu Raj

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   1. Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.
      (Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com)
   2. SUMMARY: fcp:fcp_offline_delay (Aleks Feltin)
   3. SUMMARY: configuring pools in solaris zones (Roger Kynaston)
   4. JVM monitoring (Rachid BOUKHARI)
   5. Dynamic Domain Testing on M5000 Server (Goutham N)
   6. SUMMARY: zfs rootpool degraded and migration (Tom Lieuallen)
   7. Problem with wrong autonegation on a T1000 (Stan Horwitz)
   8. Multiple read errors on StorEdge 3910 (Lee, Raymond)
   9. Solaris cannot see all drives on Areca RAID controller
      (David L Kensiski)
  10. 300GB disk in Sun v440 (Galea, Alex)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:18:36 +0800
From: Lawrence.Y.Koo at seagate.com
Subject: Lawrence Y Koo/Seagate is out of the office.
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
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I will be out of the office starting  01/22/2009 and will not return until
01/29/2009.

Any issues, please email to sga.notes at seagate.com. I will respond to your
email when I'm back, if required. Thanks & Have A Nice Day!


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:37:35 +0200
From: Aleks Feltin <aleks.feltin at sunsetwireless.fi>
Subject: SUMMARY: fcp:fcp_offline_delay
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <20090126073735.GA24535 at dev.scms.fi>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Thanks to everyone who found time to answer

Nelyubin Anatoly
hike
Antony Pavlenko
Sengor

We use MPxIO and the best /etc/system settings (recommended by EMC support
matrix) for us are:

forceload: drv/ssd
set ssd:ssd_max_throttle=20
set ssd:ssd_io_time=0x78
set maxphys=1048576
set fcp:fcp_offline_delay = 20

regards,

Aleks F.

On 14/01/09 09:48 +0200, Aleks Feltin wrote:
>Hi Managers,
>
>I am on Solaris 10 connected to Symmetrix SAN.
>What happened recently was a SAN firmware upgrade, which caused small delay
>(5-10 seconds).
>As a result, qlc HBAs were offlined and all LUNs have been lost hence the
>mounts were gone.
>With forceLIP it succeeded to get them back without rebooting.
>
>My major concern is how to avoid such situations in future.
>How to force Solaris not to offline HBAs for let's say 20-30 seconds
and
keep
>filesystem mounted during short maintenances?
>
>Very first thing I came up to was fcp_offline_delay parameter. It is set to
20
>seconds by default, but it is clear enough that downtime took significantly
>less time. I puzzled what should I tune to achieve my major objective.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:51:57 +0000
From: Roger Kynaston <kynaston at gmail.com>
Subject: SUMMARY: configuring pools in solaris zones
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <497E307D.7090203 at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Greetings Managers
Thanks to JayJay for response.

The solution is (fortunately) quite simple.  We allocated cpus to a
static pool and used the cpu.pinned directive to ensure that we get a
definite cpu.  The rest of the zones can still use dynamic resource
pools.  Now we just have to hope that this fixes our problem with this
application!

Regards
Roger

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:57:12 +0000
From: Rachid BOUKHARI <rachid.boukhari at gmail.com>
Subject: JVM monitoring
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
	<85ec26a30901271057j419aac97xd77b071dc87e28b6 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi Gurus,

Any tools to monitor JVM heap size .

Regards,


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:30:58 +0530
From: Goutham N <gouthamlabs at gmail.com>
Subject: Dynamic Domain Testing on M5000 Server
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID:
	<488e2be40901280800t5ea27626o5b97c93c69a96999 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear Sun Managers,

Have any one tested/utilized Dynamic Domain feature available in M5000
series servers.  If so, can you please share (or) point me to
the appropriate documentations available on it for our understanding.

Thanks a Ton!

Regards,
N. Gowthaman.


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

Message: 6
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:08:47 -0800
From: Tom Lieuallen <toml at engr.orst.edu>
Subject: SUMMARY: zfs rootpool degraded and migration
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Message-ID: <4980830F.5000405 at engr.orst.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

I didn't get a single hit from this mail. :-(

The zfs root file system finally reached a point of no return.  I didn't
have a chance to try reseating the drives or anything.  The machine
crashed and wouldn't boot again, so we just replaced both disks.

For the migration issue...  I had installed the OS on machine2, then we
popped it (a single disk at this point) into machine1.  As before, it
failed to boot, saying that the zfs pool 'rootpool' was last mounted on

a different machine (machine2).  So, I booted off the network into
single user.  Then ran 'zpool import -f rootpool'.  Then I rebooted off

the disk and all was fine.

There may be a better procedure, but this does work.

FYI

Tom Lieuallen
Oregon State University

Tom Lieuallen wrote:
> I have a V120 running Solaris 10 U6.  I decided to use a zfs root file
> system so that I could mirror without all the solstice pieces.  I
> installed the OS, then attached the second drive after the OS was up
> (zpool attach...).  It appears that the resilvering had problems.
>
> # zpool status
>    pool: rootpool
>   state: DEGRADED
> status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
>          corruption.  Applications may be affected.
> action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
>          entire pool from backup.
>     see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
>   scrub: resilver completed after 0h41m with 51926 errors on Wed Dec 31
> 13:05:02
> 2008
> config:
>
>          NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>          rootpool      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>            mirror      DEGRADED    10     0  108K
>              c0t0d0s0  FAULTED     20     0     0  too many errors
>              c0t1d0s0  DEGRADED     0     1  216K  too many errors
>
> errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:
>
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curl.h
>          /a1/solaris10/include/curl/curlver.h
> ...
> <ad nausea>
> ...
>
> # zfs list
> NAME                            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rootpool                       13.3G  19.9G    94K  /rootpool
> rootpool/ROOT                  4.25G  19.9G    18K  legacy
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6      4.25G  19.9G  4.17G  /
> rootpool/ROOT/solaris10_6/var  83.3M  19.9G  83.3M  /var
> rootpool/a1                    2.75G  5.25G  2.75G  /a1
> rootpool/dump                  2.00G  19.9G  2.00G  -
> rootpool/private                341M  5.67G   341M  /private
> rootpool/swap                     4G  23.9G    16K  -
>
> # iostat -e
>             ---- errors ---
> device    s/w h/w trn tot
> ramdisk1    0   0   0   0
> sd0         0 129 487 616
> sd3         0 256 877 1133
> nfs1        0   0   0   0
>
> The system logs report scsi bus resets and read and write errors for
> both disks.  I assume one of the disks is causing problems for
> everything on the bus.
>
> The 'faulted' disk is the one with the original OS.  The files it
is
> reporting problems with are all on rootpool/a1.  There's only ~50,000
of
> them.  That's just a copy of our /usr/local, so there's nothing
there I
> need.
>
> Should we just shut the machine down/off, reseat both disks, and hope
> for the best?  I'm concerned it won't boot again. :-(  Or, if we
try to
> hot-plug one of the disks, it may panic too.
>
> I have another related question...
>
> I'd like to prepare another disk or two to slap into this host in case

> it's not repairable or in case something I do makes things worse. :-)
> What is the proper procedure for installing a machine with zfs root,
> then moving that disk to another host?  I did this once before and it
> complained about the zpool being last used by a different host.  I ended
> up booting off the net and forcing the import.  To simplify matters,
> should I boot the temporary install host off the net and export the
> zpool?  Or should I just be prepared to force the import?
>
> thank you
>
> Tom Lieuallen
> Oregon State University
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:10 -0500
From: Stan Horwitz <stan at temple.edu>
Subject: Problem with wrong autonegation on a T1000
To: Sun Managers list <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
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Greetings Sun Managers;

I have a Sun T2000 with Solaris 10 on it. This server has been in production
since 11/2007 and its been running great since. As you can see from ...

# ndd -get /dev/e1000g0 1000hdx_cap
1
# ndd -get /dev/e1000g1 1000hdx_cap
1

both ports are set for auto-negotiation. The ports on our switch to which
this T2000's NICs are connected are set to 1GB auto-negotiation. The
connections should both be running at 1000 full duplex. This T2000 is used
for NetWorker backups. It was rebooted this past Sunday morning and it came
up fine, but since then, its throughput has been much too slow.

I am very green behind the ears with Solaris systems management, so I am at
a loss as to why this problem has occurred. I looked through the FAQ file
for this list and I found out about the ndd utility, but I don't see how to
use it to fix this problem or if some other tool would be appropriate.
Googling has just given me a bunch of information that's cryptic to me.

What I need to know is how to set the ports to 1GB again, preferably without
any service interruptions. I also need to know why the auto-negotiation is
incorrect and how to prevent this issue from occurring again. If anyone has
any thoughts on this matter, please let me know.


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:54:57 -0600
From: "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee at qwest.com>
Subject: Multiple read errors on StorEdge 3910
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
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Hi Managers,

I've got 2 SunFire V1280s running Sun Cluster 3.1.  They're connected
to
a StorEdge 3910 array that is spitting out read errors when it does a
vol verify.  Here are some of the errors:

(these keep repeating on the same 3 disks)
Jan 28 01:30:41 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d09 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d03 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.
Jan 27 14:45:06 locus ISR1[2]: W: u2d01 SCSI error occurred: Medium
Error (sense key = 0x3). Read Retries Exhausted.


(these keep repeating for the same 2 stripes)
Jan 27 14:45:08 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4365949 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.
Jan 27 14:43:01 locus SX11[2]: N: u2ctr Vol verify found multiple
read-disk errors on stripe 4360575 of volume (Raid set) vol2. Skipping
stripe.


I logged into the T3 in question, and 'fru stat', 'fru list',
'vol stat'
all look fine.  I recently had a failed u2d01 which was replaced and
reconstructed successfully from the spare.


I opened a case with Sun about this, and this is what they had to say:

"Problem is that there are multiple drive media errors across stripe
units. Normally a reconstruct of the stripe will yield the data needed
for the host and the errors will be marked on the drive. Next writes to
that LBA will reallocate the errors (drive function) but only if there
is a single drive reporting the error for that stripe unit. Since there
are multiple drives in that stripe unit reporting errors you have a
multiple drive error that is reported back to the host as a failed read
io operation.

The only thing you can do is backup the affected volumes and
re-initialize (re-create) and restore the data.

He then stated the following as your only 2 choices from this point out:

1. Customer can use his DB or FS utilities to find out what file or
files are affected by read operations and re-write those files. You
should then get corresponding data reallocations on the array and then
monitor the array.

2. Backup data, blow away volumes on tray 2, recreate volumes,
initialize volumes, recreate slices, restore data."


Does anyone have any other suggestions to fix the read errors?  If I
have to choose between the two options Sun gave, I'd rather go with
option 1, but how would I go about doing that?  It seems like trying to
find a needle in a haystack.  Sun wasn't very helpful with that...just
gave me a man page of the 'find' command.  I want to avoid option 2 if
at all possible because it'll be too time and resource-consuming.

Thanks,
Ray


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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:04 -0800
From: David L Kensiski <David at Schoolloop.com>
Subject: Solaris cannot see all drives on Areca RAID controller
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
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I am running Solaris 10 x86 u6 (10/2008) on a SuperMicro PDSME+ with
an Areca ARC-1280ML 24-channel RAID controller.  The RAID controller
is configured in JBOD mode with drives in channels 1 - 8 and 24.
Solaris can only see the drives on channels 1 through 8.  The RAID
BIOS says the drive on channel 24 is at SCSI Ch/Id/Lun  : 0/23/0.  I
have modified /kernel/drv/sd.conf to include entries through target 23:

name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
....
name="sd" class="scsi" target=23 lun=0;

I tried running devfsadm as well as a reconfigure reboot, but still
cannot see the device at target 23.  How can I expose this drive to
Solaris?

Thanks,
--Dave


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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:29 +1100
From: "Galea, Alex" <Alex_GALEA at engin.com.au>
Subject: 300GB disk in Sun v440
To: <sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org>
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	<396D6203BB059B419E8FDC27997C4AD701BF2B86 at ffex1.engin.com.au>
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Managers,

I have a SUN fire V440 or two that I would like to chock full of disk.
Currently each have 4 x 72GB internal disks.
I would like to replace these with SUN 300GB disk but can not find any
supporting information.
I have been told that it should work.

Has anyone configured V440's in this way? and the big question will SUN
support it?

Thanks,

Alex


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