[SunHELP] Re: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #1193 - 15 msgs

Fri Aug 10 09:10:10 CDT 2001

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Are you running the process in the background, as well as with nohup?

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>    1. nohup problems (John Kennedy)
>    2. Re: Hard drive. (John Kennedy)
>    3. RE: Seeding for apple network (Tim Conrad)
>    4. Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore? (Foong, Tzeweng)
>    5. RE: Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore? (Foong, Tzeweng)
>    6. fsck (Sangbutsarakum, Patai)
>    7. Re: Keyboard wackiness? (Simon Annear)
>    8. Re: Hard drive. (Hichael Morton)
>    9. Re: Keyboard wackiness? (David Rouse)
>   10. Re: fsck (David Rouse)
>   11. Using a PC keyboard/mouse with Ultra5/10's (Low, Adam)
>   12. test (Sangbutsarakum, Patai)
>   13. restoring from dds3 tape (Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com)
>   14. RE: restoring from dds3 tape (Peter Stokes)
>   15. Re: KVM recommendations (Steve Wingate)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:36:47 -0400
> From: John Kennedy <jckennedy at agere.com>
> Organization: Agere Systems
> To: SunHelp <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [SunHELP] nohup problems
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> We have a user who is dialing into a Solaris 8 box that is isolated from the
> network.  Whenever the user tries to nohup a job then logs out the process
> dies.  We have had a local user test it and got the same results.  The error we
> get in nohup.out is "Process terminated by kill."
> Where else can I go to find out why no hup will not keep processes running?
> Thanks,
> John
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:38:44 -0400
> From: John Kennedy <jckennedy at agere.com>
> Organization: Agere Systems
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Hard drive.
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> I thought the Sparcstation 10 used SCSI with a "special" Sun connection that
> doubled the price of the drive....
> John
>
> "Meng, Andrew" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A Hard drive in a Sparcstation 10 seems to be damaged. I am wondring if I
> > can use a normal IDE disk for PC to replace it or I have to get a sun
> > specific hard disk? By the way, where I can find the floppy boot image(sol
> > 8) to boot the system and use some kind of software to repair the damage
> > disk?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 17:31:09 -0400
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> From: "Tim Conrad" <tconrad at edisonschools.com>
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> You  might want to check out netatalk.
>
> While i'm mostly making this up by the seat of my pants. Which is how I
> usually fly. I think that if you aren't routing appletalk, that the
> machines themselves can seed themselves. They'll simply assign themself an
> appletalk address, and then ask the network if it's being used or not. (Or
> something along those lines) If it's being used, it'll simply randomly pick
> another one and try again.
>
> (I just know that I've worked in a lot of relatively simple AppleTalk
> networks, and never have had anything specifically configured to seed the
> network. The AppleShare IP server, may, but when it's only configured to
> use IP and not AppleTalk, it probably isn't seeding the network.)
>
> Then again, I have 0 clue what 'totalnet' is.
>
> Tim
>
> At 02:21 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >You only need to seed if you are going to have zones. Usually you separate
> >zones with routers. Therefore, usually you need a router to seed the net.
> >
> >You have an alternative if you have the Mac Server Software. That could seed
> >too (though I never have done it that way).
> >
> >If you have a Cisco router you can use the IOS versions that support
> >Appletalk to seed the net. If you need such an IOS I can help.
> >
> >I have seen snippets of support for Appletalk (ethertalk actually) under
> >Linux. Perhaps a Linuxboxen could seed. I have never played with Apple under
> >linux, so no idea of its capabilities (my large scale Mac networking days
> >preceeded my Linux days).
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wolfgang Engelien [mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:10 PM
> > > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > > Subject: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
> > >
> > >
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I try to get rid of totalnet, but I might need a
>  > way to seed an apple network. Is there some freeware
>  > available to seed an apple network?
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Wolfgang
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> Message: 4
> From: "Foong, Tzeweng" <Tzeweng.Foong at team.telstra.com>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:39:51 +1000
> Subject: [SunHELP] Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> Hello
>
> This is a back-up newbie speaking.!! Please help.
>
> I need to create ways to
>    1) Automatically Install veritas backup
>
>    2) At a specific times do full backups.
>
>    3) Do a full recovery.
>
> I know some of you may be thinking its simple just do it.
> But I need some advice / guidance.
>
> 1) Firstly.. I have Box which says "Veritas  NetBackup, DataCenter, Unix
> v3.4"
>
> In the box I have 8 manuals of varying thicknesses. I need to install the
> software yesterday. So its not going to happen!! Which manual shoud I read
> first.
>
> What I have are several Stand Alone Solaris boxes. Each are connected to the
>
> internet and run a webserver. (I work for an ISP which does on site
> Hosting).
> Individually they need to be backed up( Just like I would back up the PC on
> my desk). They each have their own tape drive, and, they do not talk to
> each other. So what software do I need to install. Do I need the
> DataCenter (Didnt think so). From the manuals It looks like there is a
> client
> and a server in NetBackup. BUT I DONT HAVE A SERVER. All the boxes
> think they are the center of the universe. Do i need to install both the
> client
> and the server on each of the boxes? so that each can do their own backup
> and restore? Or only the client is enough? O only the server is enough.
>
> 2) I guess I need a Cron job to run a nightly back up script. What is a good
>
> general purpose script to do a full backup? I guess when I figured out (1)
> above (2) would be a piece of cake.
>
> 3) Is there some way to automate a restore? My task is to be able to
> restore lost of machines at the same time. We dont have many machines
> at this time but it is expected to grow to large numbers (Thats why I am
> doing
> this now)
>
> Any usefull hint or advice would be appreciated. Code snippets would be
> gratefully
> disected. Please keep in mind we are trying to be able to install 1000's of
> machines
> so as automated as posible would be good. But I will be really happy with
> ANY pointers
> at all at the moment as I an really clueless !! ;-)
>
> Thanks In Advance !!
>
> TW the clueless
>
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> Message: 5
> From: "Foong, Tzeweng" <Tzeweng.Foong at team.telstra.com>
> To: William Enestvedt <wenestvedt at jwu.edu>
> Cc: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:39:52 +1000
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> William,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I hope you can help me further. What I have is a lot of "stand alone"
> servers.
> >From your quick description of netbackup DataCenter It looks like it does
> not
> match my requirements. Ie I will not have a Master Server nor media servers.
>
> What I have are lots of clients. Can I install all 3 pieces of software on
> each
> of the servers and have them act as the "client", "master" and "media"?
>
> If DataCetner is not apropriate then can you suggest an alternative?
>
> I had a look at the veritas web site and there seems to be another product
> called
> NetBackup BusinesServer
>
> Is this what I really need?
>
> Thanks
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Enestvedt [SMTP:wenestvedt at jwu.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, 6 August 2001 23:00
> > To:   'Foong, Tzeweng'
> > Subject:      RE: [SunHELP] Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
> >
> > The DataCenter version of Veritas NetBackup (NBU, as it is usually
> > abbreviated) is very poewrful and flexible, but I wonder if it's
> > appropriate
> > for your situation.
> >     Generally, there is a NBU Master Server which tells the client(s) when
> > to back up and where. There are other servers which have a tape drive
> > directly connected to them (i.e. by a SCSI cable, not across a network),
> > which are called Media Servers. The Master Server maintains a database of
> > which NBU clients (which can include the Master Server and any Media
> > Servers) back up, at what times, and will prompt the administrator for
> > tapes. Last, there is client software which manages the back-up process
> > for
> > the client computer.
> >    I'm wondering how/why NBU was suggested for your situation, as a
> > network
> > interruption would make it impossible for the Master Server to reach the
> > remote web server with the command to restore data. Have you speken with a
> > reseller about the particular details of your set-up?
> > -wde
> > --
> > Will Enestvedt
> > UNIX System Administrator
> > Johnson & Wales University
> > WEnestvedt at jwu.edu    (401) 598-1584
>
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> Message: 6
> From: "Sangbutsarakum, Patai" <patais at reach.com>
> To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:19:11 +0700
> Subject: [SunHELP] fsck
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> Dear folks
>
> I've read about system administartor of Solaris.
> In the chapter that say about fsck. it said
>
> "Run the fsck utility in single-user mode or on unmounted file system only.
> But you can't unmount the root and /usr file system"
>
> So, how can I do, can I do fsck on root,/usr file system ??
>
> Please suggest
> Patrick.
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:43:58 +1200
> From: Simon Annear <simon.annear at solnet.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
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> Hi Ben/all
>
> One thing that hasn't been mentioned - but you can simply plug the keyboard
> back in, type go and your machine will be back at the same state as when you
> unplugged it, ie running as usual (albeit with a big gap in any logs).  This
> is kinda useful if you have a server running - you pull out the kb expecting
> it to stay running and it goes to the OBP, you can simply plug the kb back
> in, type go and most users will not notice anything but a short outage.
>
> Simon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hichael Morton <mh1272 at yahoo.com>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>; Ben Ricker
> <bricker at wellinx.com>
> Date: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
>
> >Ben,
> >
> >Your E250 is designed to go to the ok prompt when the keyboard is
> >unplugged.  In certain situations that I have encountered, it is a good
> >feature.
> >
> >When your E250 is at the ok prompt, it has finished its POST (Power On
> >Self Test) and is waiting for instructions for maintenance or booting.
> >Open Boot Prompt (OBP) is another name for this state.  Single User mode
> >is reached after the E250 boots.
> >
> >docs.sun.com should have online/downloadable manuals on the OBP/ok
> >prompt and Sun spends time in the hardware and sysadmin class on how to
> >use the OBP.  It really is a nifty tool and can be used to customize
> >your E250 by creating aliases and the hardware level.
> >
> >
> >Hope this helps!
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >
> >Ben Ricker wrote:
> >>
> >> I had a weird problem. We house a Sun E250 at a CoLo site. I have a Sun
> >> keyboard plugged into it. I mistook the Sun keyboard for another
> >> keyboard (which I used for Linux machines) and unplugged it. I thought
> >> nothing of it and plugged the Sun keyboard back in.
> >>
> >> Came back to my desk and the Sun was dead; no pings, nothing. Went back
> >> to CoLo and the terminal showed the 'Ok' prompt (single-user mode?).
> >> What the heck happened there?
> >>
> >> Ben Ricker
> >> System Administrator
> >> Wellinx.com
> >>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:31:57 -0400
> From: Hichael Morton <mh1272 at yahoo.com>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org, jckennedy at agere.com
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Hard drive.
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> John,
>
> Sparc 10s use Fast SCSI hard drives (also called SCSI-2 by some).  These
> drives use 50-pin connectors (2 rows x 25 pins).  All the Sun SCSI
> connectors that I have ever seen use industray standard connectors.
>
> You may be thinking of the SBus connector that most SparcStations use
> for their system board connectors (like PCs use ISA, EISA, VLB, PBI
> connectors on their mother boards).  Even these SBus and other Sun
> connectors are open for other vendors to manufacture SBus cards.  (Sun
> also has used other connectors on various system boards but SBus seems
> to be the mainstay for Sparcstations.)
>
> Or you may be thinking of the fact that Sun was using Fast SCSI hard
> drives with the HD-50 connector while PCs were using the
> Centronics-style connector.
>
> Sun-branded hard drives are more expensive because, according to Sun,
> they spec and test their hard drive to higher standards and because,
> when under service contracts, they are warrantied for the life of the
> contract.
>
> I have used Sun hard drives in PCs with Adaptec controller and non-Sun
> hard drives in Sun machines without any problems.  The connectors are
> plug-and-play so to speak.
>
> The current Sun Field Engineer shows only industry standard connectors
> on the hard drives used by Sun.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Michael
>
> John Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > I thought the Sparcstation 10 used SCSI with a "special" Sun connection that
> > doubled the price of the drive....
> > John
> >
> > "Meng, Andrew" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > A Hard drive in a Sparcstation 10 seems to be damaged. I am wondring if I
> > > can use a normal IDE disk for PC to replace it or I have to get a sun
> > > specific hard disk? By the way, where I can find the floppy boot image(sol
> > > 8) to boot the system and use some kind of software to repair the damage
> > > disk?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:40:43 -0400
> From: David Rouse <david at rouseworld.org>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 04:40  PM, Ben Ricker wrote:
>
> > I had a weird problem. We house a Sun E250 at a CoLo site. I have a Sun
> > keyboard plugged into it. I mistook the Sun keyboard for another
> > keyboard (which I used for Linux machines) and unplugged it. I thought
> > nothing of it and plugged the Sun keyboard back in.
>
> Another option for 250s is to turn the power key to the locked position.
> That should also prevent changes to the eeprom settings (better check
> the manual on that one).
>
> --
> David Rouse
>
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>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:50:03 -0400
> From: David Rouse <david at rouseworld.org>
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] fsck
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 01:19  AM, Sangbutsarakum, Patai wrote:
>
> > So, how can I do, can I do fsck on root,/usr file system ??
> >
>
>  From 'man fsck'
>
> WARNINGS
>       The operating system buffers file system data.  Running fsck
>       on  a  mounted  file system can cause the operating system's
>       buffers to become out of date with respect to the disk.  For
>       this  reason,  the file system should be unmounted when fsck
>       is used. If this is not possible, care should be taken  that
>       the  system is quiescent and that it is rebooted immediately
>       after fsck  is run. Quite often, however, this will  not  be
>       sufficient.   A  panic  will probably occur if running  fsck
>       on a file system modifies the file system.
>
> So, just so it from single-user and then reboot.
>
> You could also, theoretically, boot from a Soalris install CD and use
> the CD's fsck.
>
> --
> David Rouse
>
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>
> Message: 11
> From: "Low, Adam" <ALow at Prioritytelecom.com>
> To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:23:04 +0200
> Subject: [SunHELP] Using a PC keyboard/mouse with Ultra5/10's
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've having some fun with VNC to share my Sun keyboard/mouse with my W2K desktop but the Sun keyboard/mouse I have are very old and clunky. Is anyone aware of a similar method (non-hardware) but allowing use of a W2k keyboard/mouse to be shared on a Sun Solaris box, ideally over IP ?
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
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>
> Message: 12
> From: "Sangbutsarakum, Patai" <patais at reach.com>
> To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:41:34 +0700
> Subject: [SunHELP] test
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
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> Message: 13
> From: Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:06:24 +0530
> Subject: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>                                               Placed At :
>
> Hi all,
>      I have dds3 tape in a dds3 tape drive. I'm able to read the contents
> through "tar tvf ", but i'm not able to restore it to my hard disk. Infact "tar
> xvf " is not extracting anything, Following is an o/p that i got..
> # ls
> # tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 /export/home
> # ls
>
> thanks,
> swamy
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 14
> From: "Peter Stokes" <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:54:24 +0100
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> Hi
>
> The command you are entering will extract everything on the tape in
> directory /export/home TO /export/home on your system, hence you will not
> see anything in the local directory.
>
> If you want to restore relative to where you are, you need to save the data
> on tape relative as well e.g. if you want to save /export/home, you would
>
> cd /export/home
> tar cvf /dev/rmt0 .
>
> Then to restore to say /my/directory
>
> cd /my/directory
> tar xvf /dev/rmt0 .
>
> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com
> Sent: 10 August 2001 09:36
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
>
>                                               Placed At :
>
> Hi all,
>      I have dds3 tape in a dds3 tape drive. I'm able to read the contents
> through "tar tvf ", but i'm not able to restore it to my hard disk. Infact
> "tar
> xvf " is not extracting anything, Following is an o/p that i got..
> # ls
> # tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 /export/home
> # ls
>
> thanks,
> swamy
>
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> Message: 15
> From: "Steve Wingate" <steve at velosystems.net>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] KVM recommendations
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:00:13 -0700
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> KVM recommendationsFor what it's worth we've standardized on Avocent =
> Autoview 400's for our colocation facilities. They each control a Compaq =
> DL380, a Sun E450 and an Ultra 5. They support both USB and Sun without =
> external adapters.=20
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>   The good news is that we now have enough Suns to justify needing a KVM =
> switch for them. The bad news is, well, the same thing.
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>   All I can seem to find are peecee KVMs which require $150-per-port =
> protocol converters to work with Sun equipment. Can anyone recommend a =
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Are you running the process in the background, as well as with nohup?
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Today's Topics:
   1. nohup problems (John Kennedy)
    2. Re: Hard drive. (John Kennedy)
    3. RE: Seeding for apple network (Tim Conrad)
    4. Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore? (Foong,
Tzeweng)
    5. RE: Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore? (Foong,
Tzeweng)
    6. fsck (Sangbutsarakum, Patai)
    7. Re: Keyboard wackiness? (Simon Annear)
    8. Re: Hard drive. (Hichael Morton)
    9. Re: Keyboard wackiness? (David Rouse)
   10. Re: fsck (David Rouse)
   11. Using a PC keyboard/mouse with Ultra5/10's (Low, Adam)
   12. test (Sangbutsarakum, Patai)
   13. restoring from dds3 tape (Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com)
   14. RE: restoring from dds3 tape (Peter Stokes)
   15. Re: KVM recommendations (Steve Wingate)
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Message: 1
 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:36:47 -0400
 From: John Kennedy <jckennedy at agere.com>
 Organization: Agere Systems
 To: SunHelp <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Subject: [SunHELP] nohup problems
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
We have a user who is dialing into a Solaris 8 box that is isolated
from the
 network.  Whenever the user tries to nohup a job then logs out
the process
 dies.  We have had a local user test it and got the same results. 
The error we
 get in nohup.out is "Process terminated by kill."
 Where else can I go to find out why no hup will not keep processes
running?
 Thanks,
 John
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Message: 2
 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:38:44 -0400
 From: John Kennedy <jckennedy at agere.com>
 Organization: Agere Systems
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Hard drive.
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
I thought the Sparcstation 10 used SCSI with a "special" Sun connection
that
 doubled the price of the drive....
 John
"Meng, Andrew" wrote:
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 > A Hard drive in a Sparcstation 10 seems to be damaged. I am wondring
if I
 > can use a normal IDE disk for PC to replace it or I have to get a
sun
 > specific hard disk? By the way, where I can find the floppy boot
image(sol
 > 8) to boot the system and use some kind of software to repair the
damage
 > disk?
 >
 > Thanks a lot!
 > Andrew
 >
 >
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Message: 3
 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 17:31:09 -0400
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 From: "Tim Conrad" <tconrad at edisonschools.com>
 Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
You  might want to check out netatalk.
While i'm mostly making this up by the seat of my pants. Which is how
I
 usually fly. I think that if you aren't routing appletalk, that the
 machines themselves can seed themselves. They'll simply assign themself
an
 appletalk address, and then ask the network if it's being used or not.
(Or
 something along those lines) If it's being used, it'll simply randomly
pick
 another one and try again.
(I just know that I've worked in a lot of relatively simple AppleTalk
 networks, and never have had anything specifically configured to seed
the
 network. The AppleShare IP server, may, but when it's only configured
to
 use IP and not AppleTalk, it probably isn't seeding the network.)
Then again, I have 0 clue what 'totalnet' is.
Tim
At 02:21 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
 >You only need to seed if you are going to have zones. Usually you
separate
 >zones with routers. Therefore, usually you need a router to seed the
net.
 >
 >You have an alternative if you have the Mac Server Software. That
could seed
 >too (though I never have done it that way).
 >
 >If you have a Cisco router you can use the IOS versions that support
 >Appletalk to seed the net. If you need such an IOS I can help.
 >
 >I have seen snippets of support for Appletalk (ethertalk actually)
under
 >Linux. Perhaps a Linuxboxen could seed. I have never played with Apple
under
 >linux, so no idea of its capabilities (my large scale Mac networking
days
 >preceeded my Linux days).
 >
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Wolfgang Engelien [<a href="mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu">mailto:wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu</a>]
 > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:10 PM
 > > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 > > Subject: [SunHELP] Seeding for apple network
 > >
 > >
 > Hi all,
  >
  > I try to get rid of totalnet, but I might need a
  > way to seed an apple network. Is there some freeware
  > available to seed an apple network?
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Wolfgang
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Message: 4
 From: "Foong, Tzeweng" <Tzeweng.Foong at team.telstra.com>
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:39:51 +1000
 Subject: [SunHELP] Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Hello
This is a back-up newbie speaking.!! Please help.
I need to create ways to
    1) Automatically Install veritas backup
   2) At a specific times do full backups.
   3) Do a full recovery.
I know some of you may be thinking its simple just do it.
 But I need some advice / guidance.
1) Firstly.. I have Box which says "Veritas  NetBackup, DataCenter,
Unix
 v3.4"
In the box I have 8 manuals of varying thicknesses. I need to install
the
 software yesterday. So its not going to happen!! Which manual shoud
I read
 first.
What I have are several Stand Alone Solaris boxes. Each are connected
to the
internet and run a webserver. (I work for an ISP which does on site
 Hosting).
 Individually they need to be backed up( Just like I would back up the
PC on
 my desk). They each have their own tape drive, and, they do not talk
to
 each other. So what software do I need to install. Do I need the
 DataCenter (Didnt think so). From the manuals It looks like there is
a
 client
 and a server in NetBackup. BUT I DONT HAVE A SERVER. All the boxes
 think they are the center of the universe. Do i need to install both
the
 client
 and the server on each of the boxes? so that each can do their own
backup
 and restore? Or only the client is enough? O only the server is enough.
2) I guess I need a Cron job to run a nightly back up script. What is
a good
general purpose script to do a full backup? I guess when I figured out
(1)
 above (2) would be a piece of cake.
3) Is there some way to automate a restore? My task is to be able to
 restore lost of machines at the same time. We dont have many machines
 at this time but it is expected to grow to large numbers (Thats why
I am
 doing
 this now)
Any usefull hint or advice would be appreciated. Code snippets would
be
 gratefully
 disected. Please keep in mind we are trying to be able to install 1000's
of
 machines
 so as automated as posible would be good. But I will be really happy
with
 ANY pointers
 at all at the moment as I an really clueless !! ;-)
Thanks In Advance !!
TW the clueless
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Message: 5
 From: "Foong, Tzeweng" <Tzeweng.Foong at team.telstra.com>
 To: William Enestvedt <wenestvedt at jwu.edu>
 Cc: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Best Way to Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:39:52 +1000
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
William,
Thank you for your reply.
I hope you can help me further. What I have is a lot of "stand alone"
 servers.
 >From your quick description of netbackup DataCenter It looks like
it does
 not
 match my requirements. Ie I will not have a Master Server nor media
servers.
What I have are lots of clients. Can I install all 3 pieces of software
on
 each
 of the servers and have them act as the "client", "master" and "media"?
If DataCetner is not apropriate then can you suggest an alternative?
I had a look at the veritas web site and there seems to be another product
 called
 NetBackup BusinesServer
Is this what I really need?
Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
 > From: William Enestvedt [SMTP:wenestvedt at jwu.edu]
 > Sent: Monday, 6 August 2001 23:00
 > To:   'Foong, Tzeweng'
 > Subject:      RE: [SunHELP] Best Way to
Veritas NetBackup and Restore?
 >
 > The DataCenter version of Veritas NetBackup (NBU, as it is usually
 > abbreviated) is very poewrful and flexible, but I wonder if it's
 > appropriate
 > for your situation.
 >     Generally, there is a NBU Master Server which
tells the client(s) when
 > to back up and where. There are other servers which have a tape drive
 > directly connected to them (i.e. by a SCSI cable, not across a network),
 > which are called Media Servers. The Master Server maintains a database
of
 > which NBU clients (which can include the Master Server and any Media
 > Servers) back up, at what times, and will prompt the administrator
for
 > tapes. Last, there is client software which manages the back-up process
 > for
 > the client computer.
 >    I'm wondering how/why NBU was suggested for your
situation, as a
 > network
 > interruption would make it impossible for the Master Server to reach
the
 > remote web server with the command to restore data. Have you speken
with a
 > reseller about the particular details of your set-up?
 > -wde
 > --
 > Will Enestvedt
 > UNIX System Administrator
 > Johnson & Wales University
 > WEnestvedt at jwu.edu    (401) 598-1584
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Message: 6
 From: "Sangbutsarakum, Patai" <patais at reach.com>
 To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:19:11 +0700
 Subject: [SunHELP] fsck
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Dear folks
I've read about system administartor of Solaris.
 In the chapter that say about fsck. it said
"Run the fsck utility in single-user mode or on unmounted file system
only.
 But you can't unmount the root and /usr file system"
So, how can I do, can I do fsck on root,/usr file system ??
Please suggest
 Patrick.
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Message: 7
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:43:58 +1200
 From: Simon Annear <simon.annear at solnet.co.nz>
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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Hi Ben/all
One thing that hasn't been mentioned - but you can simply plug the keyboard
 back in, type go and your machine will be back at the same state as
when you
 unplugged it, ie running as usual (albeit with a big gap in any logs). 
This
 is kinda useful if you have a server running - you pull out the kb
expecting
 it to stay running and it goes to the OBP, you can simply plug the
kb back
 in, type go and most users will not notice anything but a short outage.
Simon
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Hichael Morton <mh1272 at yahoo.com>
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>; Ben Ricker
 <bricker at wellinx.com>
 Date: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:19 AM
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
>Ben,
 >
 >Your E250 is designed to go to the ok prompt when the keyboard is
 >unplugged.  In certain situations that I have encountered, it
is a good
 >feature.
 >
 >When your E250 is at the ok prompt, it has finished its POST (Power
On
 >Self Test) and is waiting for instructions for maintenance or booting.
 >Open Boot Prompt (OBP) is another name for this state.  Single
User mode
 >is reached after the E250 boots.
 >
 >docs.sun.com should have online/downloadable manuals on the OBP/ok
 >prompt and Sun spends time in the hardware and sysadmin class on how
to
 >use the OBP.  It really is a nifty tool and can be used to customize
 >your E250 by creating aliases and the hardware level.
 >
 >
 >Hope this helps!
 >
 >Michael
 >
 >
 >Ben Ricker wrote:
 >>
 >> I had a weird problem. We house a Sun E250 at a CoLo site. I have
a Sun
 >> keyboard plugged into it. I mistook the Sun keyboard for another
 >> keyboard (which I used for Linux machines) and unplugged it. I thought
 >> nothing of it and plugged the Sun keyboard back in.
 >>
 >> Came back to my desk and the Sun was dead; no pings, nothing. Went
back
 >> to CoLo and the terminal showed the 'Ok' prompt (single-user mode?).
 >> What the heck happened there?
 >>
 >> Ben Ricker
 >> System Administrator
 >> Wellinx.com
 >>
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Message: 8
 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:31:57 -0400
 From: Hichael Morton <mh1272 at yahoo.com>
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org, jckennedy at agere.com
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Hard drive.
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
John,
Sparc 10s use Fast SCSI hard drives (also called SCSI-2 by some). 
These
 drives use 50-pin connectors (2 rows x 25 pins).  All the Sun
SCSI
 connectors that I have ever seen use industray standard connectors.
You may be thinking of the SBus connector that most SparcStations use
 for their system board connectors (like PCs use ISA, EISA, VLB, PBI
 connectors on their mother boards).  Even these SBus and other
Sun
 connectors are open for other vendors to manufacture SBus cards. 
(Sun
 also has used other connectors on various system boards but SBus seems
 to be the mainstay for Sparcstations.)
Or you may be thinking of the fact that Sun was using Fast SCSI hard
 drives with the HD-50 connector while PCs were using the
 Centronics-style connector.
Sun-branded hard drives are more expensive because, according to Sun,
 they spec and test their hard drive to higher standards and because,
 when under service contracts, they are warrantied for the life of the
 contract.
I have used Sun hard drives in PCs with Adaptec controller and non-Sun
 hard drives in Sun machines without any problems.  The connectors
are
 plug-and-play so to speak.
The current Sun Field Engineer shows only industry standard connectors
 on the hard drives used by Sun.
Hope this helps!
Michael
John Kennedy wrote:
 >
 > I thought the Sparcstation 10 used SCSI with a "special" Sun connection
that
 > doubled the price of the drive....
 > John
 >
 > "Meng, Andrew" wrote:
 > >
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > A Hard drive in a Sparcstation 10 seems to be damaged. I am wondring
if I
 > > can use a normal IDE disk for PC to replace it or I have to get
a sun
 > > specific hard disk? By the way, where I can find the floppy boot
image(sol
 > > 8) to boot the system and use some kind of software to repair the
damage
 > > disk?
 > >
 > > Thanks a lot!
 > > Andrew
 > >
 > >
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Message: 9
 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:40:43 -0400
 From: David Rouse <david at rouseworld.org>
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Keyboard wackiness?
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 04:40  PM, Ben Ricker wrote:
> I had a weird problem. We house a Sun E250 at a CoLo site. I have
a Sun
 > keyboard plugged into it. I mistook the Sun keyboard for another
 > keyboard (which I used for Linux machines) and unplugged it. I thought
 > nothing of it and plugged the Sun keyboard back in.
Another option for 250s is to turn the power key to the locked position.
 That should also prevent changes to the eeprom settings (better check
 the manual on that one).
--
 David Rouse
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Message: 10
 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:50:03 -0400
 From: David Rouse <david at rouseworld.org>
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] fsck
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 01:19  AM, Sangbutsarakum, Patai
wrote:
> So, how can I do, can I do fsck on root,/usr file system ??
 >
 From 'man fsck'
WARNINGS
       The operating system buffers file system
data.  Running fsck
       on  a  mounted  file
system can cause the operating system's
       buffers to become out of date with respect
to the disk.  For
       this  reason,  the file system
should be unmounted when fsck
       is used. If this is not possible, care
should be taken  that
       the  system is quiescent and that
it is rebooted immediately
       after fsck  is run. Quite often,
however, this will  not  be
       sufficient.   A  panic 
will probably occur if running  fsck
       on a file system modifies the file system.
So, just so it from single-user and then reboot.
You could also, theoretically, boot from a Soalris install CD and use
 the CD's fsck.
--
 David Rouse
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Message: 11
 From: "Low, Adam" <ALow at Prioritytelecom.com>
 To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:23:04 +0200
 Subject: [SunHELP] Using a PC keyboard/mouse with Ultra5/10's
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Hi All,
I've having some fun with VNC to share my Sun keyboard/mouse with my
W2K desktop but the Sun keyboard/mouse I have are very old and clunky.
Is anyone aware of a similar method (non-hardware) but allowing use of
a W2k keyboard/mouse to be shared on a Sun Solaris box, ideally over IP
?
Cheers,
 Adam
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Message: 12
 From: "Sangbutsarakum, Patai" <patais at reach.com>
 To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:41:34 +0700
 Subject: [SunHELP] test
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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Message: 13
 From: Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:06:24 +0530
 Subject: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
                                             
Placed At :
Hi all,
      I have dds3 tape in a dds3 tape drive. I'm
able to read the contents
 through "tar tvf ", but i'm not able to restore it to my hard disk.
Infact "tar
 xvf " is not extracting anything, Following is an o/p that i got..
 # ls
 # tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 /export/home
 # ls
thanks,
 swamy
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Message: 14
 From: "Peter Stokes" <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
 To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Subject: RE: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:54:24 +0100
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Hi
The command you are entering will extract everything on the tape in
 directory /export/home TO /export/home on your system, hence you will
not
 see anything in the local directory.
If you want to restore relative to where you are, you need to save the
data
 on tape relative as well e.g. if you want to save /export/home, you
would
cd /export/home
 tar cvf /dev/rmt0 .
Then to restore to say /my/directory
cd /my/directory
 tar xvf /dev/rmt0 .
Peter
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 Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd
 Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900
 Fax: +44 (0)1636-627909
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-----Original Message-----
 From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [<a href="mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org">mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org</a>]On
 Behalf Of Swamy_CNN at satyam-infoway.com
 Sent: 10 August 2001 09:36
 To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
 Subject: [SunHELP] restoring from dds3 tape
                                             
Placed At :
Hi all,
      I have dds3 tape in a dds3 tape drive. I'm
able to read the contents
 through "tar tvf ", but i'm not able to restore it to my hard disk.
Infact
 "tar
 xvf " is not extracting anything, Following is an o/p that i got..
 # ls
 # tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 /export/home
 # ls
thanks,
 swamy
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Message: 15
 From: "Steve Wingate" <steve at velosystems.net>
 To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
 Subject: Re: [SunHELP] KVM recommendations
 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:00:13 -0700
 Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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KVM recommendationsFor what it's worth we've standardized on Avocent
=
 Autoview 400's for our colocation facilities. They each control a Compaq
=
 DL380, a Sun E450 and an Ultra 5. They support both USB and Sun without
=
 external adapters.=20
  ----- Original Message -----=20
   From: Adam Kropelin=20
   To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'=20
   Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:46 PM
   Subject: [SunHELP] KVM recommendations
  The good news is that we now have enough Suns to justify needing
a KVM =
 switch for them. The bad news is, well, the same thing.
  All I can seem to find are peecee KVMs which require $150-per-port
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a =
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