Unix / Sun expert in Tulsa area

[edixon]

Anybody know a Unix / Sun expert in the Tulsa area ???
I am an admin for an airline company (small but international) I got this job 6 months ago. The entire system (9 servers running Novell,NT, W2K and Unix, went down due to a power outage. The Unix Box lost the GUI and who knows what else. It has been working ok, until recently. I know very little about Unix and my boss doesn't eithier. We already have a channel of support but they are not much help. I need someone local who KNOWS what they 're doing and not someone who wants to "look at it". I'm talking about good pay for good work.

Also we have discussed the option of selling this box, a Sun Ultra 10, Solaris7 ,256meg of RAM. I was told that it cost $20,000 (I am not a Unix person so I don't have a clue if that's reasonable or not) At anyrate I would be happy to consider any offers.

 

[edixon]

We have been offered $8,000, do I hear 9 ?

 

[KenCunningham]

I was very tempted to say 'I'm only 24 hours from Tulsa' (about right given that I'm in Scotland!), but I won't.

Anyway - good luck with your search and in the auction!

 

[Kegnut]

How do you tell everyone that your box is broke, then offer to sell it?

I'm confused....

I'll buy it for 2 or 3 hundred.

 

[edixon]

I'm sorry I was not clear. The box works fine. I do not have a graphic interface any more and do not know enough about Unix to get it back or maintain the system without it.

The box is running Netscape SuiteSpot, Our proxy server, mail server and a few other services. The $8000 offer came from a local consultant who has worked on the box. Any offer less than that is a waste of my time and yours.

 

[edixon]

The "It has been working ok, until recently" part of my original post means I have been seeing errors. I have since found out those errors were caused by not empting out the Access and Errrors log files. I have learned to do that now with out a graphical interface. If someone can detail the entire boot process for me I can probably find the files I need to restore the GUI. The error message I am getting is:

Can't start X Server on Display: 0. or words to that effect.

 

[FarahRegal]

/usr/dt/bin/dtconf -e enables Xwindows.
/usr/dt/bin/dtconf -d disables Xwindows
or you can move /usr/dt/bin/ and then give dtlogin start
/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin start.
try this command if openwin is working: /usr/openwin/bin/openwin

System configuration parameters are stored in the non-volatile RAM(NVRAM) otherwise known as EEPROM. These parameters determines the initial configuration and related communication characteristics of the system to and retain their value even if the power to the system is shut off.

to Ok. prompt, choose new command option, if it is not working try Stop-A. Use of the boot command option to observe system boot processes.
oK. boot -r, this option creates entries in /DEvices and /DEV and updates /etc/path_to_inst file
In command line you can use #. reboot -- -r. it is same as in ok(boot -r)
Ok. try boot -v detailed start up message.

Stop-n this resets NVRAM variables to their default settings if system can't boot bad variables.

Ok set-defaults sets the original machine default values.


good luck

F.Regal

 

[edixon]

FRegal,
Thank You so much for your help. This really is a great place......

The /usr/dt/bin/dtconf -e command returned :
desktop autostart enabled

The /usr/openwin/bin/openwin command returned:
/dev/db: Is a directory
Graphics Adapter device /dev/fb is of unknown type

Fatal Server error
InitOutput: Error loading module for /dev/fb

Giving up
/usr/openwin/bin/xinit: Connection refused (errno 146)
unable to connect to X-server

/usr/openwin/bin/xinit: No such process (errno 3):
Server error


Watching the boot process I found out quite a bit though I don't have a clue as how to fix any of it. The first thing was "The X-Server cannot be started on Display: 0"

that may have caused the other errors so I won't get into that right now.


Once again Thank You very much for the education.