We are looking for a good syslog.conf on AIX 4.3.2 and higher.
When we put the following entry, every few minutes it writes to the log file for rpc.statd entry and then file become very large with in a day. We are rotating the file once it becomes 3 MB to avoid /var getting full...
FTP the ibmperftool from folloing site.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/perftools/perfpmr
get the Zipped, tared file for your AIX versio under /tmp.
Unzip, untar and then run to get many information on your system.
BV
You need to initialised both /etc/utmp and /etc/utmpx.
They should start updating simultaneously.
I generally carryout the following command and all works fine.
> /etc/utmp ; >/etc/utmpx
BV
when you have such problem, try running following command as root. It will take few minutes before it finishes.
#pkgchk -f
This will fix many system's permissions and symbolic links to original, which are altered by some 3rd party software and broken OS patches.
Solaris 2.6 is having NFS version 2(NFS2) while Solaris 8 uses NFS version 3(NFS3).
When NFS was 1st developed in the '80s, UDP was chosen as transport protocol for LAN. Later in early '90s they developed a "transport independent" version of RPC which supported connection-oriented...
Read through your Makefile under /var/yp and find out where it is lookgin for the hosts and group files ?
Look for PWDIR, YPDIR, YPDBDIR, ALIASES under Makefile.
As our Sys Admin Visitor mentioned above, you need to save the CDE / Openwindow setup.
On CDE, do following, after you have carried out all your customisation.
Right click mouse out side of any window.
Select "Application Manager" which will popup a new window.
Click on...
SunOS is the only UNIX while Solaris is the whole bundle of UNIX, CDE, Openwindows, NIS etc.
SunOS 5.8 means Solaris 2.8 or Solaris 8.
So you are correct, SunOS and Solaris are same thing when you talk only UNIX.
You will either need to have Sun Disksuite, which is free with Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 or buy the Veritas Volume Manager. If this is not higherend server, then Sun Disksuite works good.
Make sure to have right version and patches match for respective Solaris version.
There may be other...
I had similar problem with Solaris 7. I will never use older hardware to install Solaris 7 or 8 using Installer CD. Boot PROM always look for the boot block in the biggining and when you use installer CD it creates Swap file system starting at 0 block.
Take Solaris 8 software CD 1 of 2 and...
Hope you have carried out all test for hardware working. Try ..
boot -r if your on OK> prompt
If you have already booted the system and do not want to shutdown your system then as root, carry out following commands ...
drvconfig;tapes;devlinks
It will take about 20-30 seconds before you get...
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