[SunHELP] total Number of Files in A Directory
Abrar, Saaim M.
ABRARS at RCJubail.gov.sa
Mon May 1 03:03:50 CDT 2006
Hello Gurus,
How do we know total number of files in a directory on Solaris and AIX.
Many Regards
Saaim Abrar
System Engineer
Jeraisy Computers and Communications
Oracle Certified 10G Professional
Database Administrator
Sun Solaris 8 Certified UNIX System Administrator
Cellular 00966-508160132
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:26:09 +0300
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Hello Vijay,
I will appreciate if you could write in details.
Thanks in Advance
Saaim Abrar
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1. Re: Solaris OS Boot Process (vijay kumar)
2. Re: RSM 214 sparc storage array on sparcstation 4/5 (Dave Fischer)
3. Re: RSM 214 sparc storage array on sparcstation 4/5
(Brigance, Leslie V, WCS)
4. NIS query (Amit GUPTA)
5. Re: NIS query (Yazid)
6. How to check mounted partition ? (Marek Grinberg)
7. Re: How to check mounted partition ? (TAMTONAX)
8. Re: How to check mounted partition ? (Marek Grinberg)
9. Re: NIS query (Brigance, Leslie V, WWCS)
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Message: 1
Date: 18 Apr 2006 10:07:00 -0000
From: "vijay kumar" <vijay_sys at rediffmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Solaris OS Boot Process
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Hi Saaim
This is a little bit long sequence. Do you want it in detailed
mode or consized one....
regards
vj
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 Abrar,Saaim M.
wrote :
>Hello Gurus,
>What are the Phases involved during Sun Solaris Boot
Activity? Step By
>Step.
>
>Many Regards
>
>Saaim Abrar
>System Engineer
>Jeraisy Computers and Communications
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:55:54 -0400
From: Dave Fischer <dave at cca.org>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] RSM 214 sparc storage array on sparcstation 4/5
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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cox_douglas at hotmail.com writes:
>David --
> Thanks for your reply. I'm feeling quite ignorant now -- I didn't
>realize the RSM differential HVD wouldn't direct connect to the SE
coming
>out the back of the sparcstation. Do you think it would be worth it to
buy
>an adapter, or should I just forget it and use the drives individually?
I
>don't know anything about their reliability or cost, although I
wouldn't
>want to spend much more than $40 or so. Thanks for the advice.
>Doug
Definately worth using the RSM tray.
There's some F/W differential sbus cards on ebay now for under $10.
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:36:16 -0500
From: "Brigance, Leslie V, WCS" <lbrigance at att.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] RSM 214 sparc storage array on sparcstation 4/5
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Also the reliability of the ones I have used in production in the past
& at home now has been excellent. As I previously mentioned (I think),
it
is also nice to be able to locate the rather noisy array tray a fair
distance
away from your workstation. The 2 big fans in the back of the tray
keep the drives nice and cool.
Also be sure that your SCSI cable is compatible.
LesB
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cox_douglas at hotmail.com writes:
>David --
> Thanks for your reply. I'm feeling quite ignorant now -- I didn't
>realize the RSM differential HVD wouldn't direct connect to the SE
coming
>out the back of the sparcstation. Do you think it would be worth it to
buy
>an adapter, or should I just forget it and use the drives individually?
I
>don't know anything about their reliability or cost, although I
wouldn't
>want to spend much more than $40 or so. Thanks for the advice.
>Doug
Definately worth using the RSM tray.
There's some F/W differential sbus cards on ebay now for under $10.
------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org
------
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:59:33 +0530
From: Amit GUPTA <amit-cmg.gupta at st.com>
Subject: [SunHELP] NIS query
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Hello Gurus,
Greetings !!
My question is :
In my environment, i have 700 sun blade 150/100, all are binded to NIS.
One of my user wants to have the root access of the machine but also
want the machine to be on the network. My all the clients machines are
binded to the NIS slave servers and in my NIS master server i have also
configure the securenets which has the entry of only NIS slave servers.
Is there any way out, if i can make sure that client machine will be on
the n/w but not binded to any of the NIS servers.
thanks in advance for your response.
regards
amit
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:15:46 +0800
From: Yazid <mohd.yazid at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
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I know a bit about NIS, but I don't really understand your question,
maybe you can rephrase in simpler sentence.
What's a securenets?
Do you want to remove one of the machine from NIS?
If you want to give a user root access, what's the problem of just
giving the root passwd of that particular machine to him?
How's the machine being in the network relates to the NIS? I think you
can just remove the machine from NIS, and configure everything using
local files and still able to access the network, or you can also
combine the use of of local files and NIS.
cheers;
--yazid
On 4/25/06, Amit GUPTA <amit-cmg.gupta at st.com> wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> Greetings !!
>
> My question is :
>
> In my environment, i have 700 sun blade 150/100, all are binded to
NIS.
> One of my user wants to have the root access of the machine but also
> want the machine to be on the network. My all the clients machines are
> binded to the NIS slave servers and in my NIS master server i have
also
> configure the securenets which has the entry of only NIS slave
servers.
> Is there any way out, if i can make sure that client machine will be
on
> the n/w but not binded to any of the NIS servers.
>
>
> thanks in advance for your response.
>
> regards
> amit
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist - SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:19:42 +0200
From: Marek Grinberg <marek.grinberg at tele2.se>
Subject: [SunHELP] How to check mounted partition ?
To: The SunHELP List <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
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Hello,
I have mounted a /dumpfiles, and /etc/vfstab shows:
# cat /etc/vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount
mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot
options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes
-
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1
no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
/dev/dsk/c0t9d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t9d0s0 /dumpfiles ufs
1 no -
/dev/dsk/c0t10d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t10d0s0 /temp ufs 1
no -
How do I check/verify that files in /dumpfiles reside in c0t9d0s0, and
not in root ?
Regards,
Marek
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:46:37 +0300
From: TAMTONAX <abdulrashed.tamton at aramco.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] How to check mounted partition ?
To: 'The SunHELP List' <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
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Hello Marek,
df -k /dumpfiles
or to be sure
cd /dumpfiles
df -k . (dot)
It should show what file system yor are in; it must be c0t9d0s0; if it
is
correctly mounted.
Regards,
Rasheed Tamton.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:20 AM
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Subject: [SunHELP] How to check mounted partition ?
Hello,
I have mounted a /dumpfiles, and /etc/vfstab shows:
# cat /etc/vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount
mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot
options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes
-
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1
no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
/dev/dsk/c0t9d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t9d0s0 /dumpfiles ufs
1 no -
/dev/dsk/c0t10d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t10d0s0 /temp ufs 1
no -
How do I check/verify that files in /dumpfiles reside in c0t9d0s0, and
not
in root ?
Regards,
Marek
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:08:40 +0200
From: Marek Grinberg <marek.grinberg at tele2.se>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] How to check mounted partition ?
To: The SunHELP List <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Message-ID: <444DF528.3010109 at tele2.se>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
After saving the files, I mounted /dumpfiles, changed 'mount at boot' to
'yes' in /etc/vfstab, and copied the files back.
Thank you for your reply.
Marek
TAMTONAX skrev:
> Hello Marek,
>
> df -k /dumpfiles
>
> or to be sure
>
> cd /dumpfiles
> df -k . (dot)
>
> It should show what file system yor are in; it must be c0t9d0s0; if it
is
> correctly mounted.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rasheed Tamton.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On
> Behalf Of Marek Grinberg
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: [SunHELP] How to check mounted partition ?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have mounted a /dumpfiles, and /etc/vfstab shows:
> # cat /etc/vfstab
> #device device mount FS fsck mount
> mount
> #to mount to fsck point type pass at
boot
> options
> #
> #/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes
-
> fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
> /proc - /proc proc - no -
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1
> no -
> swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
> /dev/dsk/c0t9d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t9d0s0 /dumpfiles ufs
> 1 no -
> /dev/dsk/c0t10d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t10d0s0 /temp ufs 1
> no -
>
> How do I check/verify that files in /dumpfiles reside in c0t9d0s0, and
not
> in root ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marek
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:54:38 -0500
From: "Brigance, Leslie V, WWCS" <lbrigance at att.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
To: "The SunHELP List" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
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I would agree with Yazid. On 2 counts - I also know a Little about NIS.
Used it a lot in past
years but have not implemented it in at least 5 years.
However, UNLESS you have set the root password on ALL the machines to be
the same (big no-no), but in that case you need to change the root
password of JUST the
machine on which this user needs root.
Above all don't pass out the NIS root password.
Alternatively install sudo - that user can blow up his/her own machine
but cannot do anything
to any other box on which they do not have sudo privileges.
I'd need more info before I could really help you much. I am sure that
you know NIS enough to
know that when you look at the password file on the client machine the
user probably has no
account there. No account - no password unless you are using a
combination of
local accounts & passwords AND nis accounts and passwords (shudder).
but that each client box does have a root, sys, and so forth that are
local only to that box.
Are you using NIS or NIS+. (NIS being kind of a security no-no)
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Yazid
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:16 AM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
I know a bit about NIS, but I don't really understand your question,
maybe you can rephrase in simpler sentence.
What's a securenets?
Do you want to remove one of the machine from NIS?
If you want to give a user root access, what's the problem of just
giving the root passwd of that particular machine to him?
How's the machine being in the network relates to the NIS? I think you
can just remove the machine from NIS, and configure everything using
local files and still able to access the network, or you can also
combine the use of of local files and NIS.
cheers;
--yazid
On 4/25/06, Amit GUPTA <amit-cmg.gupta at st.com> wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> Greetings !!
>
> My question is :
>
> In my environment, i have 700 sun blade 150/100, all are binded to
NIS.
> One of my user wants to have the root access of the machine but also
> want the machine to be on the network. My all the clients machines are
> binded to the NIS slave servers and in my NIS master server i have
also
> configure the securenets which has the entry of only NIS slave
servers.
> Is there any way out, if i can make sure that client machine will be
on
> the n/w but not binded to any of the NIS servers.
>
>
> thanks in advance for your response.
>
> regards
> amit
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist - SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:09:32 +0530
From: "Sunil Rawat" <sunil.rawat at techbooks.com>
Subject: [SunHELP] Licence
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
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Hi All,
This is not a technical question but !!!
We had lost the L-100 Tape Lib Licence kit any body help me.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:50:55 +0300
From: TAMTONAX <abdulrashed.tamton at aramco.com>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
To: 'The SunHELP List' <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Message-ID: <0IYA001JK3OWR0A0 at cairo.aramco.com>
Hello Amit,
By using a different setup than your standard one, I assume the said
server
is not a production one.
Also, it is almost five years since I administered a NIS domain. So,
can't
remember all the issues. But this might work:
Just stop all the yp services on the client.
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop (man ypstop/ypstart for more info)
You can test whether it is stopped by using
ps -ef|grep yp
domainame or
ypcat hosts
Modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf ; update/remove nis with files and add all
the
hostnames you want to access in the /etc/hosts.
Change the root pw and give to that privileged person to play with your
out-of-NIS system.
Regards,
Rasheed Tamton.
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On
Behalf Of Brigance, Leslie V, WWCS
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:55 PM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
I would agree with Yazid. On 2 counts - I also know a Little about NIS.
Used it a lot in past
years but have not implemented it in at least 5 years.
However, UNLESS you have set the root password on ALL the machines to be
the
same (big no-no), but in that case you need to change the root password
of
JUST the machine on which this user needs root.
Above all don't pass out the NIS root password.
Alternatively install sudo - that user can blow up his/her own machine
but
cannot do anything to any other box on which they do not have sudo
privileges.
I'd need more info before I could really help you much. I am sure that
you
know NIS enough to know that when you look at the password file on the
client machine the user probably has no account there. No account - no
password unless you are using a combination of local accounts &
passwords
AND nis accounts and passwords (shudder).
but that each client box does have a root, sys, and so forth that are
local
only to that box.
Are you using NIS or NIS+. (NIS being kind of a security no-no)
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Yazid
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:16 AM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NIS query
I know a bit about NIS, but I don't really understand your question,
maybe
you can rephrase in simpler sentence.
What's a securenets?
Do you want to remove one of the machine from NIS?
If you want to give a user root access, what's the problem of just
giving
the root passwd of that particular machine to him?
How's the machine being in the network relates to the NIS? I think you
can
just remove the machine from NIS, and configure everything using local
files
and still able to access the network, or you can also combine the use
of of
local files and NIS.
cheers;
--yazid
On 4/25/06, Amit GUPTA <amit-cmg.gupta at st.com> wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> Greetings !!
>
> My question is :
>
> In my environment, i have 700 sun blade 150/100, all are binded to
NIS.
> One of my user wants to have the root access of the machine but also
> want the machine to be on the network. My all the clients machines are
> binded to the NIS slave servers and in my NIS master server i have
also
> configure the securenets which has the entry of only NIS slave
servers.
> Is there any way out, if i can make sure that client machine will be
on
> the n/w but not binded to any of the NIS servers.
>
>
> thanks in advance for your response.
>
> regards
> amit
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist - SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:33:30 +0100 (BST)
From: Martin Frost <martin at omniconsumerproducts.com>
Subject: [SunHELP] Sun Fire X2100 IPMI
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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I have a Sun Fire X2100 with the IPMI option card, which I fitted
myself.
The machine is installed with Solaris 10 1/06 from a downloaded DVD ISO.
I have downloaded the supplemental CD v1.3 and flashed the BIOS up to
1.09
and the IPMI firmware up to 4.12. I have configured the IPMI IP address,
netmask, and passwords using the util.exe tool.
Using ipmitool 1.8.7 compiled from source on a nearby Solaris 8 box
(with
--enable-solaris-opt --disable-shared) the IPMI seems to be working fine
on the second (bge) ethernet port as expected:
$ ./src/ipmitool -H 192.168.1.11 -U Admin -P xxx sensor list
DDR 2.6V | 2.600 | Volts | ok | na | 2.496
| na | na | 2.704 | na
CPU core Voltage | 1.416 | Volts | ok | na | 0.796
| na | na | 1.556 | na
[...snip...]
Apart from this I am having problems.
Firstly, I can't get the "bmc" driver to load on Solaris. I've tried
"devfsadm -i bmc" and a reconfiguration boot. The devfsadm command just
gives me the error "devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bmc". I found one
other person having this same problem using Google but no-one had
suggested a solution. Solaris 10 1/06 includes the 120081-02 bmc driver
patch, so it's not that.
Without the "bmc" driver I cannot use IPMI locally to monitor the
machine
status. This is less important than the remote network connection to
IPMI,
but I still want it to work, and it may be indicative of some underlying
problem.
Secondly, I can't get the IPMI to share the network port with the OS.
Currently I have the IPMI on 192.168.1.11 on bge0 (second port) and the
OS
on 192.168.1.10 on bge0 (first port), but I'm going to send this machine
to the colo soon and they charge an extra monthly fee for extra switch
ports and IP addresses, so I'd like to avoid this if at all possible.
I'm pretty sure that it's possible to share both the network port and
even
the IP address. As far as I know the X2100 is based on the Tyan 2865
motherboard. A friend uses these motherboards and IPMI cards under Linux
at work and says that it shares the port fine. I also found this blog
entry:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/shepler?entry=port_623_or_the_mount
suggesting that the V65x Sun Xeon servers could share the port and even
the IP address for IPMI.
If I plumb the bge0 interface, assign it an IP address (either a
different
IP address, or the same one as the IPMI card) and bring it up then the
IPMI seems to stop responding and will not respond in the future even if
the interface is unplumbed.
Additionally, I have at least once had the IPMI simply stop responding
remotely on its own IP address, even in the absence of any interface
plumbing provocation.
Can anyone shed light? Does this sound like faulty hardware, or do I
need
to update some firmware or driver?
The IPMI card is a Tyan M3290, and the util.exe tool is identical to
that
supplied by Tyan. The IPMI card ("SMDC") manual is at:
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/software/tso/m3290/manuals/M3289M3290%20v1.0_0915.pdf
but this doesn't mention Solaris.
Tyan's support site also mentions flashing the Broadcom Ethernet ASIC
firmware, and provides the files in:
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/software/tso/m3290/firmware/s2865/BCM5721/6.09/
Is this appropriate on an X2100? Sun supply the SMDC firmware but not
the
Broadcom ASIC firmware.
I'd be grateful for any help anyone can offer.
Thanks!
Martin
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