Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK
Hi Martin, My understanding is that ZFS can cope with disks being re-arranged by searching for the unique identifier on each disk which tells the system which pool it belongs to. That said, the demonstrations I've seen only involved re-positioning the disks rather than a complete change in

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Dr. Martin Mundschenk
> This looks like bug 6835533 ( > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6835533 ) > At least the mystery of the reboot can be solved :-) This bug seems to be related to FireWire drives. My HDs also have USB interfaces. Is it possible to zpool export the pool, hook it to t

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
Dr. Martin Mundschenk wrote: System messages are recorded in /var/adm/messages on Solaris (assuming you've not directed them elsewhere in /etc/syslog.conf). Search them for the word "panic" or "savecore". Also, find the line which begins "SunOS Release" and look at the stuff before it. For

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
Dr. Martin Mundschenk wrote: I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted but don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a reboot). Was this a panic? Where do I get more information? At least there is nothing more in syslog. System messag

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Dr. Martin Mundschenk
> > I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted but > don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a reboot). > Was this a panic? Where do I get more information? At least there is nothing more in syslog. > > My guess on the sendmail and groups

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
Hi Martin, I think we need a bit more information here. You say the system rebooted but don't say way (the sendmail messages alone are not indicative of a reboot). Was this a panic? My guess on the sendmail and groups issue is a name service problem. Checking sendmail's source, the message p

Re: [osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Dr. Martin Mundschenk
I just figured out, that the system rebooted at 01:19 h in the night with no reason. The only entries in syslog at that time are: Dec 10 01:20:45 iunis sendmail[553]: [ID 702911 mail.warning] gethostbyaddr(192.168.56.1) failed: 1 Dec 10 01:20:45 iunis sendmail[572]: [ID 702911 mail.info] start

[osol-discuss] Group lost its members

2009-12-10 Thread Dr. Martin Mundschenk
Hi! This morning all members of a group vanished. The result was, that scripts could not be executed due to missing permissions. What circumstances can lead to such a behavior? Martin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensol