Recent content by naggiman

And the last question then... Is there any way to get all the extra defvices created without a reboot? devfsadm didnt seem to create them when i tried that... Or it is a case of the kernel driver for disksuite creates them when they are loaded in, and there is no way to force create them...

is it beneficial? Yes, because in a 1 disk system you can have more than the usual number of slices (> 5 on a root disk), and in a 2 disk system they can all be mirrored. Also, adding space is as easy as metattach d5 10g # add 5Gb to d5 growfs -M /opt /dev/md/rdsk/d5 I am currently setting...

Thanks both for your suggestions. Franz, Don't you find having so many devices set up for disksuite an issue? This is one thing i was shying away from (I did increase mine up to 256 so i could play with the config a bit). Are there any issues with having so many? Thanks Duncs

I was wondering what the general consensus of disksuite naming convention was. We generally use d0 = /, mirrored over d10 and d20 where d10=c0t0d0s0 and d20=c1t0d0s0 d1 = swap, mirrored over d11 and d21 where d11=c0t0t0s1 and d21=c1t0d0s1 etc... This works very well for only 2 disks in a...

atq This will list all files waiting to be processed. atrm <queueid> will remove it from the queue. The queue itself is not in memory, but in /var/spool/cron/atjobs. Each time you run &quot;at&quot; it stores a new item in the queue - it does not overwite any at jobs that are effectivly...

daFranze, So explorer output regularly does not contain serial numbers when they reach the Sun systems? How are support calls tracked when those explorer outputs need to be queried? Are hostid's used instead or soemthing then? If is not that essential that explorer's contain the serials...

Our internal networks are split into a number of firewalled segments, so I would need an NFS server for each segment. Our security people wouldnt allow me to cross segments with a single NFS area. I can see why the pkgask has to work the way it does - so the NFS mounts and single defaults file...

Thanks for your suggestion - i am not convinced i want to do that since it doesn't seem a very elegant solution (and i would have to do it for each new release of SUNWexplo). But i guess, as a last resort, i may have to.... Thanks anyhow.

You have to &quot;source&quot; the script into your current shell, not run it. I.e. # ./setvars.sh won't work # . ./setvars.sh will work Another way is to make sure there is no #!/bin/sh on the first line of the script as this also invokes a sub-shell rather than running it in the current...

Is keyserv daemon running correctly? Is the client authenticated correctly? As root # nisdefaults This should not show &quot;not authenticated&quot; Is /etc/nsswitch.conf set up correctly on the client for passwd table? Should be either: passwd: compat passwd_compat: nisplus or...

Ru your script with &quot;#!/bin/ksh -p&quot;. This will ignore settings from your profile/environment when running the script and may help to hightlight the problem. However, saying that, &quot;at&quot; should record your environment settings for when the script run again so everything...

I have to upgrade SUNWexplo across 400 or so Sun servers, and it is a pain. Currently i have a wrapper script that generates a pkgask file for each server i install it on, but i would much rather have a single pkgask file so i can do $ pkgadd -a <admin> -r SUNWexplo.pkgask SUNWexplo instead...

There are 2 sides to fully automating a package install - one is the use of pkgask and the response files it generates (as noted above). The other side is the use of an admin file (i.e. pkgadd -a <admin file> <pkg> man -s4 admin to see the full details. The following in the admin file should...

Can you provide a few more details, such as sendmail version, whether sendmail is daemon or run by cron, platform, etc? Have a look in your sendmail.cf file as this is possibly where it is configured for this behaviour you are seeing (/etc/mail/sendmai.cf?). If it comes to it, you can always...

Use commas not semi-colons (that is an Outlook standard, not a 'real standard' ;o) N.