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Hi all, I have a new sun fire T2000 running Solaris10, I'm trying to configure the nic card, but when I try to ping thing all I get is ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway!!. Can any one please HELP and tell me where i'm going wrong. Thanks for any advice.. <><><><><> ifconfig -a lo0...

Hello all, I need a bit of advice I've been ask to investigae patching multiple solaris servers at present all we do is download the latest recommended patch clusters and patch them. What I want to do is to patch multiple servers with different solaris versions from a central server location...

Hello All, I have a little question can I mirror the root disk using sun volume manager when the disk are different sizes. The current root partition is 72GB and the disk I want to mirror to is 146GB. Thanks Steve

Hello all, I have a v120 and I want to configure the lom port for remote managment/console the same way we do for the V240 which uses alom. Is this possible, Ive connect a serial cable to the lom port and I can get the lom prompt, but I can see any where to configure an ip address in the same...

Hello all, I'm having touble connecting to a sunfire V880 server I can't seem to ping or telnet using IP. I can't get to the console as the box is in a remove office. I've got a user to check if network card using the ifconfig -a command and the connection is up and running (So he said). I also...

Hello All, I currently system admin to 4 Solaris box, as there was only four boxes all the monitoring I did was just logging onto each box and check over the systems (message log disk space etc). But now we've been taken over by a new company and there system admin has left and now I has...

Hello all, I'm trying to change the ip address of a V445. I've done the following :- vi the following files and entered the correct details:- /etc/hosts /etc/defaultrouter /etc/resolv.conf /etc/netmasks Then I did:- ifconfig bge0 'new ipaddress' netmask 'new netmask' broadcast 'new...

Hi All, I have a Sunfire V440 with solaris 9 installed. Currently there is one nic card configured and all working ok, but now they want the other nic setup and both card to work seperatley. I have been asked to make sure that there is no brigeding between the two cards, But I'm sure how to...

Hello All I've changed my ip address from 198.80.185.7 to 10.28.0.1 using the following command ipconfig ce0 10.28.10.1 netmask 255.255.128.0 broadcast 10.28.127.255, I've also edit my /etc/hosts file my resolv.conf and my /etc/defautrouter file and rebooted the system and all's fine. but when...

Hello all, I've just renamed our media server and chaneged the ip address. Now I can't start backup exec 10d Error 1068 the dependency service group failed to start. So I decided to try and uninstall & reinstall backup exec. but still no luck, I can't uninstall or reinstall i'm stuck. My...

Hello all, I'm trying to setup a samba share but I want the users to have to type in there username and password. As a test I'm using myself I have a login and password and I can login and access the servers. But when I share my user area and try to browse to it via a windows PC the username...

Hello all, What the best way to copy file from one disk the another while still keeping all the time stamps file and directory attributes. Thanks for all your help.

Hello all, I'm trying to move a large amount of data from one disk to another, I thought I'd back it up using ufsdump and restore it using ufsrestore so I keep the time stamps. Is there a way i can do a backup and restore without putting it to a file or tape?. Basically a disk to disk backup

Hello Unix Admins, I'm trying to install a fresh copy on solaris10 on a sunfire V445, but when I type boot cdrom from the ok prompt I just keep getting the following error messages boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix. I've tested the Solaris10 DVD in a sunfire V280 server and it's ok . 3}...

Hello All, We've just go delivery of a new V490 which they want to install solaris10. This will be the first time I will be using Solaris10, I just want a bit of guidance on how to install it should I do a fresh solaris10 install or should I go with the pre-installed version on solaris10. I...

Hi all I was checking a tape to do a file restore and instead of type:- Ufsrestore ivf /dev/rmt/0n I typed:- Ufsrestore rf /dev/rmt/0n Initiating a restore of the root partition from different servers on to the root partition of the server I was logged onto. They are both sunfire V440 and...

Hello experts I’m looking for a bit of advise about anti virus software, we currently have 6 Solaris boxes and around 40 windows servers, all the windows servers are running sophos anti virus but no virus software on the sun boxes in your opinion should I be running sophos on the sun boxes?.

Hello all I'm trying to get a script or command that will search down a specific directory looking for files that are of a file type of ascii or text and if they are run the dos2unix command on the file. I'm not sure where so start Regards McQUeen

Hello all, I've have a problem with my solaris9 V440 server, I originally couldn't login I finally got in and found the all the sym links to in the /dev directory where all corrupted, I also check the /var/adm/messages file and it was sending out the following messages :- [ID 879645...

Hi all, I've copied a few directories from a windows server to my Solaris box using root to do it. I've changed the owner and group of the file and directory using chown (chown -R smcqueen:datadev directory_name) but I need to change the file and directory permissions. The permissions need to...