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Hi there, our 3550 switch has run out of ports and I want to add another 3550 next to it with an interconnecting cable linking them together so as to make it one big switch Does anybody know any good docs that would help me figure out how to do this, or is it a simple procedure any help would...

oops sorry, ill post this in the switches forum instead , doh Apologies

Hi there, our 3550 switch has run out of ports and I want to add another 3550 next to it with an interconnecting cable linking them together so as to make it one big switch Does anybody know any good docs that would help me figure out how to do this, or is it a simple procedure any help would...

Hi As per Suns guide, I have installed the 2 patches that are required to prepare for the US DST change. The first patch updates the zoneinfo database in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo and I can test that the patch has worked by running the following command zdump –v US/Eastern | grep 2007 The...

Hi there I have created a flash archive using flarcreate and rolled out via jumpstart and everything seems fine, however when I roll out the archive to another box, everything is fine apart from the /etc/hosts file which is the same as the masters hosts file (i.e. it still has the original...

Will my solaris 8 flash archive, with patches and third party apps etc already installed (created on a v440 for example) deploy ok to clones of the same kernel architecture regardless of the hardware model, eg can I deploy the same archive to my v210, v100, v880, v480, v240, 280r etc etc ...as...

Hi there Does anybody know what the biggest capacity disk I can get into a Sunfire 280R I currently have two 73gb disks , but I need to get these up to the biggest available Any help would be greatly appreciated Edit/Delete Message

aaaaaah thank you it works :)

Hi there, I need to be able to put the hostid of my box into a file (replacing the text "enter_hostid_here" so i tried sed -e 's/enter_hostid_here/`hostid`/g' inputfile > outputfile but it takes the `hostid` literally as text .....how can I get this info into the file (ideally in a single...

ntop is a great tool, when the ntop process starts it starts its own webserver which you can browse too to get graphs etc of current network activity ......i couldnt live without it

yep the crontab has the line appended, and if i do a crontab -l I can see it, but i assume crontab -l just reads /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root and not what the running cron process has read into memory ? I was just thinking, do i need to issue a carriage return after my command

I have a script which goes out and installs a package on a box remotely and im trying to get it to add a cron job too..but im having a few problems, whilst it does add the entry it wont run unless I connect to the machine , crontab -e, then :wq. This re-reads the configuration file and it will...

Thankyou for your response.Im running Solaris 10 on Sunfire x4100 ....The in.timed packets are required by our application (it uses it to sync with its backup box) So unfortunately i cant stop them .... Weve only just moved to the Solaris 10 x86 platform (it wasnt happening on our old Sparc...

thanks , but as I mentioned, its an x86 box therefore doesnt have an OBP

Hi there I get the following message im my messages file 2 or 3 times a second Dec 4 11:44:18 my-box in.timed[29691]: [ID 927837 daemon.info] connect from localhost I would like to stop in.timed from logging to syslog altogether as this message is filling up my disk. I dont want to stop...