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Hi, Apologies for the newbie questions... Im using Linux RHL 4 on kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp. Does this mean I am running update 3 (from the -34)? If not how can I see which update is installed? (if any!). regards Mat

Hi all, I am trying to nail a UltraAx-i2 box to 10m h/duplex. I have managed to do this but I would like to clarify something. Is the order in which I set the network variables important? I have tried setting these with autoneg set 1st which seems to ignore the rest of the settings and...

ok a strange one for you all, I have a v880 running Veritas volumes. when I boot the server the system is fine and everything looks good. As soon as any load goes onto u01 volume the i/o wait on the server goes through the roof and stays there. mpstat shows cpus idle with 98% wait time...

Hello all, we are currently running a live Sun Fire V880 with 4 750 MHz processors. We have another V880 with 6 750 MHz cpus which we would like to steal 2 cpus from for the live box. Is this possible to swap over cpus or will I run into licensing/hardware problems? any thoughts? thanks K

Hi, our backups have started to run like a three legged dog and we are pretty much at a loss as to whats happened. We usually get up to 17g/hr through our L9 running Veritas Netbackup backing up an Oracle 9i database. The L9 is attached directly to the v880 server through scsi. Overnight...

Hello, I have installed an A5200 onto an E450 and brought up the system. I have a couple of issues. when I run a format i get the following output: 35. c5t2000000C50A73244d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424> /scsi_vhci/ssd@g2000000c50a73244 I am wondering why the target is...

Hi, I have had an a5200 disk go offline for some reason. I would like to perform a devfsadm -Cv to clean up the hanging logical links. This is a live mission critical box and I'm in the nasty stuff if it goes wrong. Can I perform a devfsadm -Cv on a live box? Whats the consensus? thanks K

Hi, I'm adding PCI Fibre Network Adapter to my V880 to connect a A5200 disk array to the box If I add the card will a probe-scsi-all pick up the fibre device card? If not is there a command to install Fibre devices. Thanks K

Hi all, we have a bespoke olap 9i database running at about 180g. This is suffering from performance degradation over the past few months. Looking at the developers code there are a number of select * queries which are used, although these are indexed in the the where clause. We also analyse...

Hello, I am attempting to connect a d1000 with 12 disks to a Sun Enterprise II. Have connected it up to a ultra wide scsi card and am using ultrawide cables. when I do a probe-scsi-all from the OBP the server is unable to see the disks in the d1000. The server had previously had a d1000...

Hi All, I have been assigned the task of setting up a Veritas file system and Volume manager on a Solaris 8 server. Whilst I have read throught the documentation and looked on a similar system which all makes sence. The only area I am a little confused on is what to setup 1st - the file...

How can I increase the size of my swap space. Also would anyone have any recommendations regarding size ratios: we are currently using 3/1 but have increased memory to 2G. We run Oracle 8.1.7 Any pointers most welcome.. thanks

Hello teckies.. I want to create a file on my PC that will when viewed will look at another file - similar to a softlink in UNIX. Is it possible? If so how do I do it!! Any pointers would be most welcome!! Cheers Kouchpotato

Hello teckies.. I want to create a file on my PC that will when viewed will look at another file - similar to a softlink in UNIX. Is it possible? If so how do I do it!! Any pointers would be most welcome!! Cheers Kouchpotato

hi, how can you find the CPU count and speed at which they are running on SUN 2.6 box cheers Mat

hi I want to upgrade my Sun Solaris server from 2.6 to v8. could anyone give me an overview of the process. does the box have to be clear of other software or can existing software be kept during the upgrade? Any pointers would be appreciated. regards Mat

Have purchased new motherboard + processor. Boots intermittently from the power switch. When boot unsuccessful lights and fan operable but machine fails to post. Any ideas why this might be happening ?

How can I find out the amount of physical memory installed on my Sun box?

I am trying to find a way to determine the ports currently in use on my solaris system. I am trying to start a listener on Port 80 and getting an error saying port already in use.... any ideas??????? cheers

I am setting up some software that will email me when my UNIX server is down. The software resides on a Windows 2000 SP2 server. When I test the software to try email a test script to my company network account I get the following message 'Method Call Failed: Error 0x80004005 -unspecified...