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I have seen this before but can seem to find the format for scheduling a cron job to run only on the last day of the month. Right now I'm brute forcing the job by: 0 0 28,29,30,31 * * /mydir/mycronjob.pl not effecient, but gets the job done. Any ideas? robwall7 We look for things,...things...

I gunziped the 3 apps and installed using pkgadd -d without problems. The error message can from running the mtr app. #mtr ld.so.1: mtr: fatal libgtk-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory Killed # robwall7 We look for things,...things to make us go.

I have been asked to install "mtr" (matt's trace route) on Solaris 8 by our network team. I downloaded three binaries from sun freeware: glib-1.2.10-sol8-sparc-local gtk+-1.2.10-sol8-sparc-local mtr-0.42-sol8-sparc-local I used pkgadd -d to install each in the order listed from...

I have installed Solaris 8 on a Sun box and can not telnet to the root account from other unix systems. I can telnet to user accounts without a problem. I get the following result when attempting to telnet to root: SunOS 5.8 login: root Password: Not on system console Connection closed...

I downloaded SysAudit from http://www.backupcentral.com and the logging of the Partition Table is commented out due to some error problem in the script. Does anyone know where I can get a version of SysAudit that will log the Partition Table? I hate to think I will need to log it manually...

I have been asked to help out our Microsoft Department in setting up a dedicated email server. They overloaded our company MS Exchange Server, then tried a separate stand alone MS Exchange Server but could only manage 9,000 11KB messages/hour. Their target is 80,000 11KB message/hour, or...

I'm a new ORACLE DBA and the name of the answer you are looking for is OFA (Optimal Flexible Architecture) in combination to the Physical Database Layout. The number of available disk volumes that can be dedicated to the database will be a major factor. The DBA Handbook has "The Dream...

I have downloaded and uncommpress a patch and now have file &quot;2.6_recommended.tar&quot;. Where should I put the file before expanding it. Can I put it anywhere or is the /tmp the best place. The Readme explains to install: cd <patch cluster directory> ./install_cluster Is the...

I inherited 4 Sun boxes and have never installed a patch. Two are development/QA boxes with 5.6 and two are production boxes with 5.8 &quot;uname&quot; shows: SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-05 SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-07 I went to SunSolve and found want I think are the latest patch-id#'s for...

The system03.dbf file was found to be corupt and the instance shut itself down and will not restart. I have heard from others that my only option now is to record instance directory file names and sizes, delete current files, CREATE DATABASE, recreated TABLESPACES (in same locations, same size...

SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Oracle 8i, 8.1.5 I created the database and need to do a FULL import, but I think there are some steps missing. Are there certain SQL scripts that should be run before I can do the recovery import? Do I need to recreated the TABLESPACE file structure before...

SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 ORACLE 8i 8.1.5 One of the system files for the SYSTEM TABLESPACE is corrupt for one of two instances. I get this error on instance startup. ORA-01110: data file 18: '/u05/oradata/wwwt/system03.dbf' ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 18 (block # 1)...

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 I would like to know the disk file I/O buffer size for a Sun box. Is it 64KB, and how can I know for sure? Thanks in advance robwall7 think twice, commit once

I am looking for the disk file I/O buffer size as a basis for tuning an ORACLE database. The ORACLE docs use 64KB as an example and I would like to confirm that for this box. My Swind and Rwind are 32768 from netstat. Does that mirror the disk file I/O buffer size?

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 I would like yo know the I/O buffer size for a Sun box. Is it 64KB, and how can I know for sure? Thanks in advance robwall7 think twice, hit enter once

Thanks! The help was great! The box is back up now.

sunos 5.8 on sparc -- system crash -- found at ok prompt -- entered boot -- skip cntrl-d for system maint -- get error -- cannot create /var/adm/utmpx -- what is the utmpx and what is the proper solution to bringing the box back up.