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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Hi there I am running solaris 10 on an SunFire x4100 ...(x86 box) Could anybody tell me if there is a way I can check the firmware revision without taking the box down to do it ...eeprom doesnt give me the info I require Cheers

Hi there the Sunfire X4100 has a great tool that you can get to from BIOS called the configuration utility which allows you to set up Disk mirroring (RAID 1) before the OS sees it, which is great and it works a treat, however, we have a large datacentre across multiuple sites and I need to find...

Hi there In our Data centre we have a mixture of SPARCS running from v100 and ultra10's to v800 and v1250 boxes we also have a large amount of x86 X2100 and X4100 boxes I am looking to purchase an external DVD-ROM drive that we can plug into the back of any of the boxes if we need to (I...

Hi there, I have set up mirroring on an x86 solaris box using SVM, its my first time doing this and everything seems to have gone as planned, however, I want to test that it is working before i put it into production What is the best way for me to do this, can I just pull the root disk out of...

Hi We have a startup script set up an on all of our boxes caller /etc/rc2.d/S11ndd that looks like this # e1000g0 interface ndd -set /dev/e1000g0 adv_100fdx_cap 1 ndd -set /dev/e1000g0 adv_100hdx_cap 0 ndd -set /dev/e1000g0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0 ndd -set /dev/e1000g0 adv_1000hdx_cap 0 ndd -set...

Hi there , I have a 4 disk SunFire X4100 (x86) and my customer has specified that they want their disks to be in a mirrored configuration ....my understanding was that DiskSuite (or whatever its called now) didnt support x86, is this the case and if so, does anybody know of any options...

Hi there, if i am in /opt and i want to extract /data/package.tar to /usr, how do I do it...How can I extract to a directoory that im not currently in ??? eg ....(this doesnt work) #cd /opt # tar xvf /data/package.tar /usr cheers

Hi there I have a root cron job that creates a file and in the same script (later on) it deletes it ....however the delete command returns a "permission denied" Does anybody know why this is ? ...is my cron job running as another user and not root ??? cheers

Hi there I have a Solaris box that I need to add to a multicast group, does anybody know the command to add to a group...i know the command to list the groups I am currently a member of netstat -g but i need to add one Any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers

Hi there I have a backup script that runs every night and for some reason ive been getting in in the morning and the process has died, Is there any way I can tell when it died? if not .....would anybody recommend some scripting that i could do that would be able to tell me this information Cheers

Does anybody know the command i issue to find out the manufacturer of the RAM modules in my machine ....ie KINGSTON etc ....i know there is one because I saw sombody use it the other day cheers