From: Nick Pettefar (Nick@Pettefar.com)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 07:21:06 EST
Hi, just a quick desktop question:-
Does anyone know of the existence of a working MPlayer binary for Solaris
SPARC 8?
Some of my users need to view Quicktime video clips as part of their
jobs and don't really want to install a PC for this.
Regards,
Nick
Nick Pettefar Nick@Pettefar.com DoD 1069 MAG 73516 Bros 650 ZZR1100D
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> 1. [SUMMARY]: SUN ONE LDAP 5.2 and SUN Cluster 3.1
> (harald.husemann@materna.de)
> 2. Unsolved - SUMMARY : OpenSSH on Solaris slow (Jan De Luyck)
> 3. Default word lenght (bkc777@comcast.net)
> 4. problem jumpstarting v240s connected via fiber to Catalyst
> 4003 (Michael Freeman)
> 5. SUMMARY: solaris 2.6 on an ultra 60 (Chuck Campbell)
> 6. HBA issues (Mike Carter)
> 7. snmpd threshold value (Chris Denneen)
> 8. NFS Sharing: Directories vs. Filesystems (Gary Chambers)
> 9. SUMMARY: questions about nfs and netgroup (Gerard Henry)
> 10. Solaris Management Console (SMC) and Java version (David Foster)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:19:28 +0100
> From: harald.husemann@materna.de
> Subject: [SUMMARY]: SUN ONE LDAP 5.2 and SUN Cluster 3.1
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
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> Hi again,
>
> and thanks to Gregory Shaw [shawga@unix.stortek.com] and especially to
> Pavlos Parissis [PParissi@athens2004.com] for their helpful hints!
> Finally we got it working, it seems that the old version of the LDAP cluster
> agent (SUNW.nsldap) does not work with LDAP 5.2 (thanks, Pavlos, for this
> tip!).
> The new agents (SUNW.asha for the admin- and SUNW.dsha for the directory
> server) are not part of the SUN cluster distribution, they can be found in
> the SUN ONE Directory Server package (NOT in the .tar.gz, only in the
> pkg-File).
> Unfortunately, we were also unable to install the LDAP Server using the
> packages due to some missing entries in a bundled lib...
>
> Finally we did the following to get it working: (Quite a long way, :-) )
>
> - Downloaded the pkg-File for the LDAP, and installed the packages including
> SUNW.asha and SUNW.dsha according to SUN Docu
> - WITHOUT configuring the server using '/usr/sbin/directoryserver
> configure', installed the LDAP-server in the global share using the
> old-fashioned shell setup script out of the .tar.gz.
> - Created the resources and integrated the LDAP Directory- and Admin-server
> into the cluster using the SUNW.asha and SUNW.dsha resourcetypes
>
> Puh... That did the trick.
> I'm sure there MUST be an easier way to do it, but I'm not going to try it
> again, :-)
>
> Many thanks to the list, and to all other who replied,
>
> Harald
>
> ============================================
> Harald Husemann
> Systems Engineer
> Teammanager Unix administration and Configuration Management
> Materna Gmbh - Vo_kuhle 37 -
> D-44141 Dortmund, Germany
> Phone: +49-231-5599-8684
>
>
> > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
> > [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]Im Auftrag von
> > harald.husemann@materna.de
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Januar 2004 19:34
> > An: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> > Betreff: SUN ONE LDAP 5.2 and SUN Cluster 3.1
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > got a problem here on one of our clusters, just askin' if
> > someone saw this
> > before and can give me a hint.
> > I have two 280's, running SUN Cluster 3.1, OS Solaris 9.0
> > (Release 12/03).
> > I have to run an LDAP Directory Server on the cluster, so I
> > downloaded SUN
> > ONE (or, as it is called now, SUN Java Systems) Directory
> > Server 5.2 (newest
> > version), installed it, and integrated it into the cluster
> > according to SUN
> > documentation.
> > Everything seemed to work, but when the cluster starts the
> > LDAP system, I
> > get messages reading "Start of resourcegroup failed, secure
> > connection to
> > <logical host> port 389 refused" and then "<resourcegroup>
> > restarting to
> > often, sleeping for xx seconds". The cluster keeps trying to start the
> > resource, switches it to the other node, tries it there
> > without success, and
> > gives up with the well-known message "Rebalance: No primary
> > node could be
> > found".
> > I removed the ldap-resource itself, started the rest of the
> > rg, and tried to
> > start the LDAP server manually with start-slapd - that worked
> > fine, and the
> > ldap server bound itself to the logical host, port 389. I was
> > also able to
> > connect this port with telnet, etc.
> >
> > I tried to search for patches for the cluster or the OS at
> > sunsolve, but the
> > only patch I've found was 113800-06, which was "not applicable" on my
> > system. Of course, I have the latest OS-patchcluster installed.
> > I also searched docs.sun.com for the error message, found it
> > there, but the
> > solution was not very good for my problem (Just wait, the cluster will
> > restart or switch the rg, and everything should be fine).
> >
> > So, the question is:
> >
> > Could it be that Directory Server 5.2 does not work properly with SUN
> > Cluster 3.1? Anyone tried this before?
> >
> > Any ideas or hints are welcome...
> >
> > Have a nice weekend,
> >
> > keep on hackin',
> >
> > Harald
> >
> > ============================================
> > Harald Husemann
> > Systems Engineer
> > Teammanager Unix administration and Configuration Management
> > Materna Gmbh - Vo_kuhle 37 -
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:37:06 +0100
> From: Jan De Luyck <ml@kcore.org>
> Subject: Unsolved - SUMMARY : OpenSSH on Solaris slow
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Message-ID: <200401201737.06760.ml@kcore.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Thanks all for your answers.
>
> Most people pointed to DNS problems. Since we don't use DNS, only the
> hostfiles, this problem is not present.
>
> I had pointers from Pavic, Aleksander to try with a different key (RSA instead
> of DSA) and shorter keylength, but this changed little.
>
> Casper Dik pointed out that it's probably an under-optimized OpenSSH
> implementation - I have no compilation station currently, so I can't compile
> my own.
>
> Jan
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:00:45 +0000
> From: bkc777@comcast.net
> Subject: Default word lenght
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Message-ID: <012020041700.17283.1bbd@comcast.net>
>
> How can I change the default word lenght in C shell.
>
> I am getting error,
> CSH> source .cshrc
> Word too long
> > echo $CLASSPATH | wc
> 1 1 1014
>
> I can reduce the $CLASSPATH, but I cannnot.
> Any solutions,
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:02:06 -0600
> From: "Michael Freeman" <mfreeman@wamnetgov.com>
> Subject: problem jumpstarting v240s connected via fiber to Catalyst
> 4003
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Message-ID: <005501c3df77$22bba150$bf9011ac@wamnet.inc>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Everytime I try to jumpstart a box connected via fiber to my catalyst 4003
> it will start to go through the boot process and then the catalyst will
> disconnect the port. It does not disable on errors or anything like that, it
> just becomes disconnected. I have tried turning off udld and it still
> doesn't work. The ports on the catalyst are in 1000fx. I am wondering if
> anyone has come across this problem before. My CatOS ver is:
>
> WS-C4003 Software, Version NmpSW: 8.1(1)
> Copyright (c) 1995-2003 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
> NMP S/W compiled on Jul 10 2003, 16:03:12
> GSP S/W compiled on Jul 10 2003, 13:59:37
>
> System Bootstrap Version: 5.4(1)
>
> Hardware Version: 2.0 Model: WS-C4003 Serial #:
>
> The sun boxes are brand new Sunfire v240s
>
> The only way I can get around the problem is to physically disconnect the
> fiber and reconnect it, and then try to jumpstart it again and then it just
> fails right away again.
>
> -mike
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:34:31 -0600
> From: Chuck Campbell <campbell@accelinc.com>
> Subject: SUMMARY: solaris 2.6 on an ultra 60
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Message-ID: <20040120173431.GA32157@helium.inexs.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:49:16PM -0600, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> > I've gotten an ultra 60 to replace an old ultra 170E.
> >
> > I've seen a bunch of articles on the sun pages that say I need to boot from the
> > Operating Environment CD first if I'm installing solaris 2.6 on 450Mhz cpu's
> >
> > Where do I find this CD? Is it in the standard solaris desktop media box?
> > I don't seem to see one here... :-(
> >
> > I can pick up a media box, but I don't see any sense in doing so, unless the
> > CD I'm already missing is there.
> >
> > If not, where can I get my hands on one?
> >
> > -chuck
>
> Many thanks to those who helped, offered suggestions etc.
> They include in the order I received their email replies):
> Scott Spencer, Darren Dunham, Rich Teer, Jason Santos, Peter Stokes,
> King Brooke, Casper Dik, Brian ?
>
> The solution I used was to install a 300Mhz cpu, run the solaris 2.6
> installation, patch using the most recent recommended adn y2k patch sets,
> install the 450Mhz cpu's and reboot.
>
> Not necessarily elegant, but once I understood I just needed a patch to make
> the 450mhz cpu's work, it was straight forward to get there.
>
> Special thanks to Rich Teer who ftp'd the contents of the cd to me, and to
> Scott Spencer who actually sent me one of the CD's
>
> Thanks again,
> -chuck
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