[SunHELP] Incremental backups with tar

praveena k sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Apr 24 19:20:44 CDT 2001


Hi all

Can u tell me what the compression rate with tar ,
And also how to take incremental backups with tar .
Tar  cvf will take the full backup , how do i take incremental backups

thanks
kumar



>From: sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org
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>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #975 - 12 msgs
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:56:09 -0500 (CDT)
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>    1. RE: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #973 - 14 msgs (Pissey, Vinod)
>    2. mount/umount... (Pissey, Vinod)
>    3. RE: mountd security vulnerablility (Dale Ghent)
>    4. Re: bind upgrade on solaris 2.5.1 (Dale Ghent)
>    5. Re: rpc.rexd repeated process (Dale Ghent)
>    6. Re: rpc.rexd repeated process (Xiaomei Zhou)
>    7. RE: mount/umount (Kovalev, Ivan)
>    8. Re: mount/umount (Bruce Pullig)
>    9. /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko occupies one processor (Wolfgang 
>Engelien)
>   10. Re: Re: Sunpci hangs (Bruce Pullig)
>   11. Re: compression rate with tar (praveena k)
>   12. Re: /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko occupies one processor (Bruce 
>Pullig)
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 1
>From: "Pissey, Vinod" <Vinod.Pissey at compaq.com>
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:16:56 -0700
>Subject: [SunHELP] RE: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #973 - 14 msgs
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hi Robert
>
>If you are trying to mirror the root then you need to do a metaroot and 
>then
>reboot the machine .Then you need to attach the sub mirrors.
>
>Regards
>vinod
>
>Message: 6
>From: Robert Ababurko <Robert.Ababurko at exodus.net>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:21:13 -0700
>Subject: [SunHELP] DiskSuite
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hello,
>
>    I am getting an error when trying to mirror / partition.  I am able to
>make the two submirrors (one of the / file system and one on the mirror
>disk.  Then I make the one way mirror with the first submirror and
>reboot....everything ok.  When I try to make it a two way mirror with my
>second submirror I get the error:
># metattach d10 d12
>metattach: harpua: d12: can't attach labeled submirror to an unlabeled
>mirror
>
>d10: Mirror
>      Submirror 0: d11
>        State: Okay
>      Pass: 1
>      Read option: roundrobin (default)
>      Write option: parallel (default)
>      Size: 2945376 blocks
>
>d11: Submirror of d10
>      State: Okay
>      Size: 2945376 blocks
>      Stripe 0:
>          Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>          c0t0d0s0                   0     No    Okay
>
>
>d12: Concat/Stripe
>      Size: 2949712 blocks
>      Stripe 0:
>          Device              Start Block  Dbase
>          c1t1d0s0                   0     No
>
>    What does this mean?
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Ababurko
>
>Thanks
>Regards
>Vinod Kumar Pissey
>Compaq Computers
>14231 Tandem Blvd
>Phone:512-4328761.
>Unix Is User-Friendly.It's just selective about who its friends Are.
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 2
>From: "Pissey, Vinod" <Vinod.Pissey at compaq.com>
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:26:49 -0700
>Subject: [SunHELP] mount/umount...
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hi faisal
>
>You may want to try fuser -ck /mount-point.
>
>This will force whoever is accessing the partition to umount.The reason why
>you are unable to umount is,the device is getting accessed.
>
>Try a man on fuser and find out more options in it.
>
>regards
>
>
>Message: 1
>From: "faisal" <fasi_74 at yahoo.com>
>To: "solaris help2" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:30:38 -0700
>Subject: [SunHELP] mount/umount
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hello i am facing a problem here when i mount a partition it mounts
>successfully but when i try to umount it it say mount busy operation not
>aplicable ....
>
>help me out
>
>Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
>even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
>i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
>how can i correct it ?
>
>Thanks
>Regards
>Vinod Kumar Pissey
>Compaq Computers
>14231 Tandem Blvd
>Phone:512-4328761.
>Unix Is User-Friendly.It's just selective about who its friends Are.
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:39:18 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] mountd security vulnerablility
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Li John-a16118 wrote:
>
>| Dale,
>|
>| After I installed the patch(107477-03) and restart the system, ISS
>| still found the same vulnerability. Could you advise me on this ?
>
>ISS will probably report it anyway, as long as that service is operating.
>For a service such as this, there's no way it can determine if it's
>vulnerable or patched short of actually attempting to exploit it.
>
>ISS is going on the notion that if there's a known exploit for a paticular
>service, it will *always* raise the flag on it. Your best bet at that
>point is to inspect the service, determine if there is a patch that fixes
>the exploit (and installing said patch if there is) and moving on.
>
>But, like I said earlier... It is best to disable the offending service,
>even if it's patched, if it's not needed.
>
>/dale
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:42:02 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] bind upgrade on solaris 2.5.1
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Henrico Santos wrote:
>
>| sir / madam,
>|
>|      hi! i just want to ask something from you guys.
>| we have a bind version 4.8.3 running on solaris 2.5.1
>| and upgraded the bind to version 4.9.3-p1 by
>| installing some pathces. my problem is that i want to
>| upgrade the bind to atleast version 8.x.x and i'm
>| having a difficulty of doing that because i do not
>| know where to start. could you give me some idea,
>| probably an intensive steps or procedure to do this?
>|      it would certainly be appreciated since im having
>| this problem for almost two months now.
>
>Sun does not ship BIND 8 for 2.5.1. BIND 8 first came standard as a Sun
>Solaris package with Solaris 7.
>
>To upgrade to BIND 8 on 2.5.1, you must go straght to the source. Go to
>http://www.isc.org/ and download the source code for the latest version of
>BIND 8, compile and install.
>
>There is a script included with the BIND 8 package called
>"named-bootconf". This will convert your BIND 4-era named.boot file to a
>BIND 8 named.conf file.
>
>/dale
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 5
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Cc: <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] rpc.rexd repeated process
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Xiaomei Zhou wrote:
>
>| Hello,
>|
>| Does anyone have any clue as to why I'm getting tons of rpc.rexd
>| process in my process table? This rexd process has been commented out
>| in my inetd.conf so I'm very confused why it is even running. I used
>| "ps -ef | grep rpc.rexd" and I got about 80 rpc.rexd processes like
>| this:
>
>Were you sure to restart inetd after commenting out the rexd entry in
>inetd.conf?
>
>Also, you can kill off any remaining rexd processes if you dont want them
>there anymore.
>
>/dale
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 6
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:58:23 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Xiaomei Zhou <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] rpc.rexd repeated process
>To: daleg at elemental.org, sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>I have not edited inetd.conf recently. The process report last week didn't 
>show any
>rpc.rexd process. I have only discovered this today. The time stamps on 
>these
>rpc.rexd all have today's time stamps. I can kill these processes but I'm a 
>little
>concerned with the numbers of repeated rexd processes. Have I been hacked? 
>Is this a
>sign of rpc.rexd buffer overflow? I have checked all my essential binary 
>files and
>there has not been any time change.
>
>I have two systems showing this repeated rpc.rexd processes, one is running 
>Solaris 6
>and another one Solaris 7. Four other machines (two running Solaris 6 and 
>two running
>Solaris 7) don't have rpc.rexd process running at all.
>
>Recently we have been attacked by snmpXdmid buffer overflow so security has 
>become a
>big concern of ours.
>
>
>Mei
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:43:23 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
> > To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> > cc: <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [SunHELP] rpc.rexd repeated process
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Xiaomei Zhou wrote:
> >
> > | Hello,
> > |
> > | Does anyone have any clue as to why I'm getting tons of rpc.rexd
> > | process in my process table? This rexd process has been commented out
> > | in my inetd.conf so I'm very confused why it is even running. I used
> > | "ps -ef | grep rpc.rexd" and I got about 80 rpc.rexd processes like
> > | this:
> >
> > Were you sure to restart inetd after commenting out the rexd entry in
> > inetd.conf?
> >
> > Also, you can kill off any remaining rexd processes if you dont want 
>them
> > there anymore.
> >
> > /dale
> >
>
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 7
>From: "Kovalev, Ivan" <IKovalev at ibes.com>
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] mount/umount
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:08:26 -0400
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>You're right, see man automount.
>
>comment out "/home          auto_home" line in /etc/auto_master.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Fogg [mailto:jfogg at vicinity.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:59 AM
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] mount/umount
>
>
> > Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
> > even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
> > i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
> > how can i correct it ?
>
>This may be unique to my install, but I found I cannot create user
>directories in /home/username. (Solaris 5.7 on SS5).
>
>Use /export/home/username. I am *told* that the idea of an export/home
>directory is that Sun had the big idea of using one machine to store
>everybody's home directory and having other machines mount that home
>directory
>via NFS. That way no matter what machine you were using you had the same
>home directory with all your files available. When I try to create a
>subdirectory on /home I get an error (even as root). Something like
>"operation
>not applicable".
>
>_______________________________________________
>SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
>http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
>
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>
>Message: 8
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:15:17 -0500
>From: Bruce Pullig <bpullig at Houston.GeoQuest.SLB.COM>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] mount/umount
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>I prefer doing it that way.  Following are some "quick and dirty"
>instruction to get you started:
>
>NON-NIS:
>In /etc/passwd on workstations set your user home directories to
>/home/<username> then: (You will need users defined on both servers &
>workstations)
>
>Do this on your NFS server:
>mkdir /export/home/<username>
>chown <username> /export/home/<username>
>(User IDs MUST be the same on all machines!)
>
>Add the following to your /etc/dfs/dfstab:
>share -F nfs -d "Home Directories" /export/home
>
>then run:
>/etc/init.d/nfs.server start
>
>
>Do this on your workstations:
>Make sure you have an entry in /etc/auto_master for auto_home that looks
>like this:
>/home         auto_home
>
>echo "<username>  <Servername>:/export/home/<username>" >>/etc/auto_home
>
>/usr/sbin/automount
>
>NIS:
>In /etc/passwd on the NIS Master set your user home directories to
>/home/<username> then:
>
>Do this on your NFS server:
>mkdir /export/home/<username>
>chown <username> /export/home/<username>
>
>Add the following to your /etc/dfs/dfstab:
>share -F nfs -d "Home Directories" /export/home
>
>then run:
>/etc/init.d/nfs.server start
>
>Make these changes on your NIS Master:
>Make sure you have an entry in /etc/auto.master for auto.home that looks
>like this:
>/home         auto.home
>
>echo "<username>  <Servername>:/export/home/<username>" >>/etc/auto.home
>
>cd /var/yp
>make
>
>then run the following on your workstations:
>/usr/sbin/automount
>
>
>I hope I didn't miss anything.  If you have any problems still, let me
>know.
>
>Bruce
>
>--
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>   Bruce Pullig, CSA, CNA, MCPS
>   Senior Systems Administrator
>   GeoQuest DMC
>   5444 Westheimer, Suite 800
>   Houston, TX 77056
>   (713) 350-4217
>   bpullig at houston.geoquest.slb.com
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>James Fogg wrote:
> >
> > > Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
> > > even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
> > > i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
> > > how can i correct it ?
> >
> > This may be unique to my install, but I found I cannot create user
> > directories in /home/username. (Solaris 5.7 on SS5).
> >
> > Use /export/home/username. I am *told* that the idea of an export/home
> > directory is that Sun had the big idea of using one machine to store
> > everybody's home directory and having other machines mount that home 
>directory
> > via NFS. That way no matter what machine you were using you had the same
> > home directory with all your files available. When I try to create a
> > subdirectory on /home I get an error (even as root). Something like 
>"operation
> > not applicable".
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> > http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
>
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>
>Message: 9
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:49:19 -0400
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>From: Wolfgang Engelien <wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu>
>Subject: [SunHELP] /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko occupies one processor
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hi,
>
>the /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko process slows one
>of my U2's down (SOL7) and I have no idea what this
>process is good for. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Wolfgang
>#####
># Wolfgang Engelien
># Tel.: +1 (212) 746 3724
># Fax.: +1 (212) 746 5818
># email: wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
>#####
>
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 10
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:25:51 -0500
>From: Bruce Pullig <bpullig at Houston.GeoQuest.SLB.COM>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Re: Sunpci hangs
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>If you are using automounter, you need the -nobrowse option to keep from
>having "apparent" lock ups caused by browsing when using explorer.  The
>system will come back after 5 or so minutes, thus "apparent".
>
>Bruce
>
>--
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>   Bruce Pullig, CSA, CNA, MCPS
>   Senior Systems Administrator
>   GeoQuest DMC
>   5444 Westheimer, Suite 800
>   Houston, TX 77056
>   (713) 350-4217
>   bpullig at houston.geoquest.slb.com
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>praveena k wrote:
> >
> > Hi admins
> >
> > I am using ultra 10 with sunpci card installed on that.I have installed
> > windows nt on that , sometimes windows nt hangs on sunpci .at that time 
>It
> > wonot accpet any keyboard inputs and mouse clicks . I have to goto 
>solaris
> > window and kill the sunpci application , restart the sunpci application
> > again .
> > This is happening frequently .
> >
> > Can any body tell me solution
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kumar
> >
> > >From: sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org
> > >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >Subject: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #970 - 4 msgs
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:01:07 -0500 (CDT)
> > >
> > >Send SunHELP mailing list submissions to
> > >       sunhelp at sunhelp.org
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> > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
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> > >
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> > >
> > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > >than "Re: Contents of SunHELP digest..."
> > >
> > >
> > >Today's Topics:
> > >
> > >    1. Re: NFS Mounts (Wolfgang Engelien)
> > >    2. syslog date format (Kenny Felmly)
> > >    3. Re: PKGRM (Dale Ghent)
> > >    4. Re: local? in syslog (Dale Ghent)
> > >
> > >-- __--__--
> > >
> > >Message: 1
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:44:05 -0400
> > >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >From: Wolfgang Engelien <wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu>
> > >Subject: Re: [SunHELP] NFS Mounts
> > >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >
> > >At 08:11 AM 4/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Fellow Admins,
> > > >Has anyone run across a problem doing Remote NFS mounts.
> > > >I am getting access denied when tring to do a remote mount.
> > > >Entries have been made on the server's dfstab file and in the vfstab
> > > >file
> > > >on the client. Both boxes are Solaris.
> > > >Any ideas?
> > >Making the entries in the /etc/dfs/dfstab is not sufficient.
> > >After making these entries, on the server you need to
> > >use either the "shareall" if you did export things before,
> > >or do a "/etc/init.d/nfs.server start" if you did not or
> > >simply restart the server if possible.
> > >After that check that the server is giving the mounts
> > >free with the following command on the client:
> > >/usr/sbin/showmount -e "servername-as-you-use-it-in-vfstab".
> > >If you don't see the exported mounts you might check into the
> > >name resolution otherwise just do a "mountall" on the client
> > >if you have already other nfs-mounts or do a
> > >"/etc/init.d/nfs.client start" if you had not.
> > >
> > >Hope that helps,
> > >Wolfgang
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >#####
> > ># Wolfgang Engelien
> > ># Tel.: +1 (212) 746 3724
> > ># Fax.: +1 (212) 746 5818
> > ># email: wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
> > >#####
> > >
> > >-- __--__--
> > >
> > >Message: 2
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:19:41 -0400
> > >From: Kenny Felmly <kfelmly at h40a.resva.trw.com>
> > >Organization: TRW
> > >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >Subject: [SunHELP] syslog date format
> > >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >
> > >List!
> > >
> > >I was wondering if any of you have done this:
> > >
> > >the syslog date/time stamp is in the format
> > >Mar 14 10:09:41 hostname etc. etc. etc.
> > >
> > >I need to get it to display like the following:
> > >14 Mar 2001 10:09:41 hostname etc. etc. etc.
> > >or
> > >14 03 2001 10:09:41 hostname etc. etc. etc.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?  Any easy way to do this?
> > >I see that the "date" command is fixed and I looked at the syslog.conf
> > >file, but didn't get any help.  I also looked at man pages for 
>timezone,
> > >
> > >date, syslogd, etc.  Still stumped.
> > >
> > >Kenny
> > >
> > >
> > >-- __--__--
> > >
> > >Message: 3
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:53:57 -0400 (EDT)
> > >From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
> > >To: "SunHELP. org" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [SunHELP] PKGRM
> > >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >
> > >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Theodore White wrote:
> > >
> > >| I've want to uninstall a number of packages. Instead of uninstalling 
>each
> > >| one by one, I want to do a mass uninstall of them. Since they all 
>have
> > >the
> > >| first 4 letters in common, is there a way to use pkgrm to accomplish 
>this
> > >| task.
> > >
> > >in sh:
> > >
> > >for i in BLAHblah BLAHblah BLAHblah BLAHblah; do pkgrm $i; done
> > >
> > >/dale
> > >
> > >
> > >-- __--__--
> > >
> > >Message: 4
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
> > >From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
> > >To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [SunHELP] local? in syslog
> > >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > >
> > >On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Sangbutsarakum, Patai wrote:
> > >
> > >| Hi folks
> > >| Facility local0-local7 of syslog is not enough for me.
> > >| If I need to extent it to be local8, local9, ....
> > >| Can I do it? is it possible? if so, what can I do? or where I can 
>find
> > >that
> > >| info?
> > >
> > >No, sorry. you can have only local0-7 in standard syslog.
> > >
> > >/dale
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>Message: 11
>From: "praveena k" <praveenkumarv at hotmail.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:51:46 -0000
>Subject: [SunHELP] Re: compression rate with tar
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>
>Hi all
>
>Can u tell me what the compression rate with tar ,
>And also how to take incremental backups with tar .
>Tar  cvf will take the full backup , how do i take increemental backups
>
>thanks
>kumar
>
> >From: sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org
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> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: SunHELP digest, Vol 1 #974 - 3 msgs
> >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:01:05 -0500 (CDT)
> >
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> >Today's Topics:
> >
> >    1. Repeated EAGAIN (munkumar at hss.hns.com)
> >    2. Re: mount/umount (James Fogg)
> >    3. rpc.rexd repeated process (Xiaomei Zhou)
> >
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> >Message: 1
> >From: munkumar at hss.hns.com
> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:39:23 +0530
> >Subject: [SunHELP] Repeated EAGAIN
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >I am trying to do a recvfrom on a socket after the select breaks for this
> >socket. The socket descriptor has the NON_BLOCK flag set. The recvfrom
> >repeatedly returns a EAGAIN - resources temporarily not available. The 
>same
> >program has been running without any fail for past few months. This 
>problem
> >has
> >started to come recently itself. There is sufficient swap space 
>available.
> >Also,
> >I do not want to remove the nonblocking flag lest I may change the system
> >after
> >so much testing that has been put into it ... Can somebody please give me
> >clue
> >as to what could be the possible cause for this error?
> >any sugestions/pointers are welcome ....
> >
> >regards
> >muni
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >Message: 2
> >From: James Fogg <jfogg at vicinity.com>
> >Organization: Vicinity Corporation
> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunHELP] mount/umount
> >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:59:09 -0400
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >
> > > Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
> > > even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
> > > i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
> > > how can i correct it ?
> >
> >This may be unique to my install, but I found I cannot create user
> >directories in /home/username. (Solaris 5.7 on SS5).
> >
> >Use /export/home/username. I am *told* that the idea of an export/home
> >directory is that Sun had the big idea of using one machine to store
> >everybody's home directory and having other machines mount that home
> >directory
> >via NFS. That way no matter what machine you were using you had the same
> >home directory with all your files available. When I try to create a
> >subdirectory on /home I get an error (even as root). Something like
> >"operation
> >not applicable".
> >
> >
> >-- __--__--
> >
> >Message: 3
> >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:22:44 -0500 (CDT)
> >From: Xiaomei Zhou <mei at prc.utexas.edu>
> >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >Cc: mei at prc.utexas.edu
> >Subject: [SunHELP] rpc.rexd repeated process
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Does anyone have any clue as to why I'm getting tons of rpc.rexd process 
>in
> >my
> >process table? This rexd process has been commented out in my inetd.conf 
>so
> >I'm very
> >confused why it is even running. I used "ps -ef | grep rpc.rexd" and I 
>got
> >about 80
> >rpc.rexd processes like this:
> >
> >root  7205     1  0 06:12:22 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7207     1  0 06:16:27 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7209     1  0 06:20:32 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7211     1  0 06:24:38 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7213     1  0 06:28:43 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7215     1  0 06:32:49 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7217     1  0 06:36:54 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7219     1  0 06:40:59 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7221     1  0 06:45:05 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7223     1  0 06:49:10 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7225     1  0 06:53:16 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7227     1  0 06:57:21 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >     root  7229     1  0 07:01:26 ?        0:00 rpc.rexd
> >
> >I looked at few security sites and so far haven't found any report on
> >similar
> >situation.
> >
> >
> >Mei
> >
> >
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>Message: 12
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:37:22 -0500
>From: Bruce Pullig <bpullig at Houston.GeoQuest.SLB.COM>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko occupies one 
>processor
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>This process should not be there!   There should be no executables in
>/usr/share/man. It sounds like you may have been cracked, and had a
>distributed denial of service (ddos) program installed.
>Do a:
>
>/usr/bin/find /usr/share/man -exec file {} ';' | grep -v text | grep -v
>directory
>
>to fine any other executables in /usr/share/man.  If I were you I would
>completely rebuild the system with better security if I were supporting
>it.
>
>Anyone, am I off base here?
>
>--
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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>
>Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the /usr/share/man/mansps/ddos/carko process slows one
> > of my U2's down (SOL7) and I have no idea what this
> > process is good for. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wolfgang
> > #####
> > # Wolfgang Engelien
> > # Tel.: +1 (212) 746 3724
> > # Fax.: +1 (212) 746 5818
> > # email: wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
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