From: Stan Chapman (sm.chapman@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 11:36:44 EST
Can you please take me off your mailing list. This is the third request.
Thank you
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> 1. RealPlayer Plugin in Netscape 7 with a SunRay (Kai Riasol Gonzalez)
> 2. solaris 8 patch upgrade -- no more tape devices (Adam and Christine
Levin)
> 3. SUMMARY: cron running job twice. ???? (German, Vinnie)
> 4. IP numbers, netmasks and network numbers (Sridhar)
> 5. Modifying boot disk and OBP (Aravind Vinnakota)
> 6. SUMMARY: solaris 8 patch upgrade -- no more tape devices (Adam and
Christine Levin)
> 7. Problem with installing patch 109951-01 in solaris 8 10/01
(=?iso-8859-1?q?Abdelkader=20Houchi?=)
> 8. SUMMARY: Re: Getting Netra X1 out of standby mode (Luc I. Suryo)
> 9. SUMMARY Re: Triple Mirror Backup Advice, incl. how can a script
> find outSDS status (Matthew Moncaster)
> 10. SUMMARY: Re: Routing question on Ultra 5s (Simran Hansrai)
> 11. CC/GCC Problems (John Szkudlapski)
> 12. SUMMARY: CC/GCC Problems (John Szkudlapski)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:52:53 +0100
> From: Kai Riasol Gonzalez <riasol@stud.uni-frankfurt.de>
> To: Sunmanagers@Sunmanagers.Org
> Subject: RealPlayer Plugin in Netscape 7 with a SunRay
>
> hallo
>
> i have build a netscape 7 prototype for the kioskmode to use with a
sunray. i
> have also installed plugins for shockwave, flash and relaplayer, all this
work
> very fine. when i open a webpage where the realplayer is open "outside"
the
> page, the realplayer open and works very find. my problem is when the
> realplayer is "build-in" the webpage the realplayer plugin works, but it
don4t
> play anything. i have set the $AUDIDEV=$BBAUDIODEV and also i put "set
> LD_PRELOAD libc_ut.so" into my start-script.
> this problem i have it only with the sunray-users (utcuXX)
> do anyone know what the problem is??
>
> thx, and sorry for my bad english
>
> kai
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:46:13 -0500 (EST)
> From: Adam and Christine Levin <levins@westnet.com>
> To: Sun Managers Mailing List <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: solaris 8 patch upgrade -- no more tape devices
>
> We've been online with Sun all day, but so far they're as stumped as we
> are. Since I've occasionally solved things and told Sun about them, I'm
> hoping one of you has seen something like this.
>
> Enterprise E450 running Solaris 8. We just patched with the latest
> 8_Recommended, as well as the latest PROM flash.
>
> When we brought the system up, everything was fine except we couldn't see
> our tape devices anymore.
>
> The patch cluster overwrote a lot of config files on the system, including
> /kernel/drv/st.conf. We corrected it and did boot -r, but still no go.
>
> We've got Veritas Netbackup 3.4.1. This machine is a media server, not
> master. It's got a SpectraLogic Gator 64000 attached with 6 Sony AIT2
> tape drives, attached via SCSI in pairs to three controllers.
>
> We get errors when we run sgscan all (veritas), where it finds our disks,
> and even finds the Gator, but no tape drives. We get a lot of errors:
> /dev/sg/cXXtYlZ: user scsi ioctl() failed, may be timeout, errno = 12, Not
> enough space
> inquiry failed (Not enough space)
>
> I don't know if that's related, though.
>
> We tried a boot -r, didn't work.
>
> We tried deleting /dev/sg and /dev/rmt (after making appropriate backups).
> boot -r will recreate /dev/sg, but not /dev/rmt.
>
> We ran devfsadm -c tape -v, but it didn't do anything. It did *remove*
> the tape devices under /dev and /devices when we ran it with -C.
>
> We tried removing the sg and st devices in /etc/path_to_inst and then
> doing a reconfig reboot, but it still didn't find any tape drives.
>
> Finally, we tried blowing away path_to_inst and doing boot -ar (at Sun's
> request), but it fails to boot, giving a bunch of "read only filesystem"
> errors -- it can't even create /dev and /devices.
>
> At this point, I'm not sure where to go -- it seems as if the machine just
> refuses to recognize the tape drives, and that's a problem because we need
> to run our backups (and, occasionally, restores).
>
> -Adam
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 3
> From: "German, Vinnie" <Vgerman@us.nomura.com>
> To: "'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: SUMMARY: cron running job twice. ????
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:23:25 -0500
>
> I have not doubted and was not ready to start doubting Unix behavior this
> time.
> once again it was the developer fault. He has the job running from two
> different
> servers at same time, it was not just one devel working on this but two
and
> communication played a rolled on this as they failed to inform each other
> on job running from two different server at same time.
>
> Thanks everyone,
> Vinnie.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: German, Vinnie
> > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:27 AM
> > To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> > Subject: cron running job twice. ????
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a very strange situation in which a job under cron is running
twice
> > when it's suppossed
> > to run only once. The developer is telling me this, however
/var/cron/log
> > does not show job runnig twice but once..
> > This is happening under Solaris 8.
> >
> > This server is running 5.8 Generic_108528-18. Has anyone seen anything
> > like this before, cron executing a job twice?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Vinnie.
> >
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> Message: 4
> From: "Sridhar" <ssridhar@raven.pharmacia.com>
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: IP numbers, netmasks and network numbers
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:29:21 -0500
>
> We are running Solaris8 on a SUN E450. I would like to know how Solaris
> calculates network numbers to put in /etc/netmasks during initial system
> setup. We are using an IP in class B but using a class C netmask for
> subnetting. All I entered during initial system setup was IP
(14X.YYY.8.111)
> and netmask (255.255.255.0). I now see, in /etc/netmasks
> 14X.YYY.0.0 255.255.255.0 #hme0
> I now added a second line for the backup LAN on a gigabit NIC
> 14X.YYY.208.0 255.255.248.0 #ce0
>
> but I have some concerns about this (the second line being a subset of
> first). All these times we never had problems with that first entry in
> netmasks (may be luck). I feel when we reboot this machine next time, the
> backup LAN may not configure itself properly. (The first time the GIG card
> was configured using ifconfig command).
>
> What do others think?
>
> SS
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 5
> Subject: Modifying boot disk and OBP
> From: Aravind Vinnakota <aravind@csee.wvu.edu>
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Date: 03 Mar 2003 17:14:13 -0500
>
> Hi all,
> 1) How can I partition(modify) the boot disk. It is not allowing me to
> , as the partitions are mounted. I heard that one can boot off from
> cdrom using the install cd and modify the boot disk. I tried to do the
> same but I dont know at what stage I can get access to shell (the local
> hard disk). What command should I run to get access to the local hard
> disk, if I dont run any command, it is just taking me to the normal
> installation stuff.
>
> 2) While rebooting, the system prompted me to upgrade OBP to the
> latest version, since it does not support 64 bit. How can I upgrade it?
> Can I upgrade after the OS is installed?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Aravind
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:32:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: Adam and Christine Levin <levins@westnet.com>
> To: Sun Managers Mailing List <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: SUMMARY: solaris 8 patch upgrade -- no more tape devices
>
> Thanks to:
> "Wianecki, Christopher" <Christopher.Wianecki@sothebys.com>
> "JULIAN, JOHN C (AIT)" <jj2195@sbc.com>
> Eric Paul <epaul@syncline.com>
> "Fox, Alan [LTD]" <afox04@sprintspectrum.com>
>
> I tried unplugging the Gator library, resetting it, plugging it back in,
> while doing boot -r in between each step.
>
> I confirmed that yes, I can see the tape drives in a probe-scsi-all.
>
> Tried a couple of other things, but nothing worked.
>
> Sun got back to me, though, and had be back out the patch in the latest
> cluster that deals with st drivers (108725-12).
>
> That fixed the problem.
>
> -Adam
>
> ---Original Question---
>
> We've been online with Sun all day, but so far they're as stumped as we
> are. Since I've occasionally solved things and told Sun about them, I'm
> hoping one of you has seen something like this.
>
> Enterprise E450 running Solaris 8. We just patched with the latest
> 8_Recommended, as well as the latest PROM flash.
>
> When we brought the system up, everything was fine except we couldn't see
> our tape devices anymore.
>
> The patch cluster overwrote a lot of config files on the system, including
> /kernel/drv/st.conf. We corrected it and did boot -r, but still no go.
>
> We've got Veritas Netbackup 3.4.1. This machine is a media server, not
> master. It's got a SpectraLogic Gator 64000 attached with 6 Sony AIT2
> tape drives, attached via SCSI in pairs to three controllers.
>
> We get errors when we run sgscan all (veritas), where it finds our disks,
> and even finds the Gator, but no tape drives. We get a lot of errors:
> /dev/sg/cXXtYlZ: user scsi ioctl() failed, may be timeout, errno = 12, Not
> enough space
> inquiry failed (Not enough space)
>
> I don't know if that's related, though.
>
> We tried a boot -r, didn't work.
>
> We tried deleting /dev/sg and /dev/rmt (after making appropriate backups).
> boot -r will recreate /dev/sg, but not /dev/rmt.
>
> We ran devfsadm -c tape -v, but it didn't do anything. It did *remove*
> the tape devices under /dev and /devices when we ran it with -C.
>
> We tried removing the sg and st devices in /etc/path_to_inst and then
> doing a reconfig reboot, but it still didn't find any tape drives.
>
> Finally, we tried blowing away path_to_inst and doing boot -ar (at Sun's
> request), but it fails to boot, giving a bunch of "read only filesystem"
> errors -- it can't even create /dev and /devices.
>
> At this point, I'm not sure where to go -- it seems as if the machine just
> refuses to recognize the tape drives, and that's a problem because we need
> to run our backups (and, occasionally, restores).
>
> -Adam
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 02:22:02 +0100 (CET)
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Abdelkader=20Houchi?= <khouchi@yahoo.fr>
> Subject: Problem with installing patch 109951-01 in solaris 8 10/01
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>
> Hi all managers ,
>
> I have a problem to install the following patch in
> Solaris 8 10/01 :
>
> The patch number is 109951-01. The error that i get
> when installing this patch is as follows.
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> > Checking installed patches...
> > One or more patch packages included in
> > 109951-01 are not installed on this system.
> >
> > Patchadd is terminating
>
> I know that the patch requires a Package SUNWjwnsu to
> be installed but I have a problem to found the
> location of this package in all Solaris CD.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Best Regards
> Abdelkader Houchi
>
> =====
>
> Abdelkader Houchi
> Unix Administrateur Certifii Sun Microsystems
>
> Til : (514) 270-8624
> Email : khouchi@yahoo.fr
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:48:55 -0600
> From: "Luc I. Suryo" <luc@suryo.com>
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Getting Netra X1 out of standby mode
> Organization: Suryo Consultancy Inc.
>
> Well answering my own question:
> the power supply had died...
>
>
> >
> > can someone help me with this small issue (i'm have no manual available)
> > one of our X1 was rebooted and instead reboting it's on the LOM prompt
> > try to reset/getting consle alwayes resilt is: system in standby
> > message....
> >
> > tried: poweron / check : nothing
> >
> > is the system dead? or i need to give oher command?
> >
> > nb: i tried to power cycle, nothing happend, pulled the power cord and
> > re-inserted, nothing
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Luc Suryo
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:52:33 +0000
> From: "Matthew Moncaster" <Matthew.Moncaster@circle33.org>
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: SUMMARY Re: Triple Mirror Backup Advice, incl. how can a script
> find outSDS status
>
> Thanks to Darren Dunham and John Eisenschmidt for their swift replies.
>
> I asked how to implement a triple mirror based backup scheme using
> Solstice Disk Suite. The basic answer (which worked last night) is:
>
> 1) run a script mirror3 which just does metattach d50 d53 (etc.) to
> attach the 3rd submirror to the existnig mirrors. I run this in the
> evening. The only reason is performance worries - as we only have 2
> HBAs/controllers I prefer to have 2 submirrors during peak hours, 1 on
> each HBA/controller
>
> 2) add to the backup script, after the database servers are shut down
> but before backup:
> a) metadetach d50 d53 ie break the 3rd mirrors off
> b) mount /dev/md/dsk/d50 /lcopy ie remount the broken
> ex-submirrors on a temporary mountpoint
> c) restart the live database servers (they're Progress and can't be
> backed up online)
>
> 3) add to the end of the backup script, umount /lcopy ie unmount
> the temp mount pts.
>
> This works. I have not bothered to parse the metastat output yet for
> (a) resynching in progress (b) bad disks... will try this tonight
> maybe.
>
> -Matt
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> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:29:24 -0800
> From: Simran Hansrai <sparc@pacbell.net>
> Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Routing question on Ultra 5s
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>
> Thanks to everyones response on this question. Basically, the problem
> was that I had assigned both the nics on Host A IP addresses on the same
> network. I fixed this with assigning the U5's 192.168.1.X and eth0 as
> 192.168.0.1 and turned on ip forwarding on Host A. Everything seems to
> be working as expected now.
>
> Thanks again,
> Simran H.
>
> Simran Hansrai wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I have a couple of easy questions for you guys. I have looked
> > everywhere but cannot find any info on this. I am trying to add 2 new
> > servers to my network and I am having some problems. I have Host A
> > connected to my main network and has 2 Nics. The 1st Nic is connected
> > to my main network and the gateway and the 2nd Nic is connected to
> > another switch and that is where I am connecting my 2 ultra 5's, on
> > that switch. I was able to get links on all my ports and h/w wise
> > everything looks good. However, I am unable to ping from Host A to
> > the other 2 ultra 5's which are on the same switch (eth0 on Host A).
> > Do, I need to add a route on Host A? The following is my routing info
> > on Host A:
> >
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> > Use Iface
> > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> > 0 eth1 <------- connected to my main network
> > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> > 0 eth0 <------- connecte to the 2 U5's
> > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> > 0 lo
> > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> > 0 eth1
> >
> > Also, once I get that working is it possible to set the gateway for
> > the ultra 5's as Host A or do I have to somehow set the gateway as the
> > g/w I am using on the main network 192.168.0.1, so that I can get
> > internet access on these ultra 5's. Any suggestion or comments would
> > be grately appreciated. I will summarise once I get this to work.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Simran H.
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> Message: 11
> Reply-To: <johns@bsfc.ac.uk>
> From: "John Szkudlapski" <johns@bsfc.ac.uk>
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: CC/GCC Problems
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:06:44 -0000
> Organization: Birkenhead 6th Form College
>
> Hi All
>
> I am running Solaris 9 on a Netra T1, I have installed GCC (2.95.3) from
> the companion CD, but I need to use CC, there are some modules from the
> CPAN archives that I need to install I have tried to create a symbolic
> link from GCC to CC and even when I do
>
> CC=GCC
> or
> Perl Makefile.PL CC=gcc
>
> I still get a lot of error messages, i.e from HTML-PARSER-3.27
>
> #perl Makefile.PL CC=gcc
> # make
> gcc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xO3 -xdepend
> -DVERSION=\"3.27\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.27\" -KPIC
> -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
> gcc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
> gcc: language depend not recognized
> gcc: Parser.c: linker input file unused since linking not done Running
> Mkbootstrap for HTML::Parser () chmod 644 Parser.bs rm -f
> blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
> LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -G Parser.o -o blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
>
> cc: Parser.o: No such file or directory
> cc: No input files
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target
> `blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so'
>
> I tried to edit the Makefile and remove the reference to CCCDLFLAGS =
> -KPIC to read CCCDLFLAGS = -fPIC, but that returned the following : -
>
> # make
> gcc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xO3 -xdepend
> -DVERSION=\"3.27\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.27\" -fPIC
> -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
> gcc: language depend not recognized
> gcc: Parser.c: linker input file unused since linking not done Running
> Mkbootstrap for HTML::Parser () chmod 644 Parser.bs rm -f
> blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
> LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -G Parser.o -o blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
>
> cc: Parser.o: No such file or directory
> cc: No input files
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target
> `blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so'
>
>
> Can someone shed some light on how I can get CC working on this machine,
> I don't want to pay for the Sun One Studio/Forte Developer.
>
> Regards
>
> ------------------------------------
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> Message: 12
> Reply-To: <johns@bsfc.ac.uk>
> From: "John Szkudlapski" <johns@bsfc.ac.uk>
> To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> Subject: SUMMARY: CC/GCC Problems
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:41:54 -0000
> Organization: Birkenhead 6th Form College
>
> To all that replied, thanks for all your help.
>
> I installed the lasted GCC and Perl from SunFreeware sucessfully and now
> the patches are working fine, just one more thing, I have been able to
> modify the PATH for a non-root-admin account I have by editing the
> .profile, how can I do the same for root, were is the .profile for root
> user on solaris 9 ?, as when I do a SU from the non-admin to root, I
> lose the path settings :(, don't mind putting them back in , just
> wondering if there was a quick way?
>
> Regards
>
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