[sysadmin-discuss] bootadm: invalid option or missing option argument: -e

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
This is what I got after the upgrade nv109->nv110 here, when I 'init 6' it. I was hoping that it would just go away, but it doesn't. Actually it is worse, because it shuts down the file system uncleanly and at Failsafe does the complete FS-check, phases 1-5, before the boot archive can be updated

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Which filesystem for removable backup device(s)?

2009-03-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]I don't understand why the rules for ZFS are any different from the rules for any other filesystem. Why don't you try pulling out drives for UFS and pcfs and seeing whether they are corrupted or not? Guess what, they are equally likely to be corrupted, but you simply wont be ablt to detect the c

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Which filesystem for removable backup device(s)?

2009-03-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
Try the thread "ZFS: unreliable for professional usage?" in zfs-discuss for further info, and read how SUN engineers agree to potential corruption without proper umount && export. Don't. Simply don't. At least not yet, as long as the recovery utility for the Überblocks is pending. Then test-test

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Which filesystem for removable backup device(s)?

2009-03-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
vfat/pcfs seems to be the best alternative. Search the archives, and you'll find that under specific circumstances ZFS could damage the data beyond a chance for recovery, so avoid it. I myself keep some UFS, without problem. Only, depending on the purpose of the backup, it is difficult to read f

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]I have not seen those details on this list. Did you share those details privately?[/i] Yes. John is very helpful, we have exchanged more than 10 mails. Even though I lost another 2 days of mail, I kept silent until - while following some more steps proposed by John today - I noticed that I ca

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
Tim, all this is very well possible. I suggest to wait until this issue is resolved, explained, or whatnot. As long as I can make a mail disappear at will by disconnecting the recipient MTA for more than 15 minutes using the default configuration with smarthost enabled, I felt that an informati

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
Not solved yet, but confirmed. There is a probability to lose queued mail on the default sendmail configuration, here on nv104 (don't know about other Nevada), whereby the mails without reachable destination are dropped within 15 minutes of entering the queue. It is yet unresolved how it happens

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-19 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]I take exception to the technical charge that sendmail fails to retry.[/i] Accepted. It does fail here to retry by default, and as far as i know, I did not do any modifications to sendmail or its configuration. [i]If you want to provide details in an effort to find the problem(s) in a sendmai

[sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-18 Thread Uwe Dippel
Until now, we have seen some arguements on postfix versus sendmail. It looks loke a dead horse. But it isn't. I have replaced an old OpenBSD running postfix with a fresh yound and new OpenSolaris as mail concentrator. :( Now I have lost incoming mail twice, and a great amount. Because the OpenSo

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] crontab no go!

2008-12-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]The root cause seems to be if a user executes dtpad directly.[/i] Okay, I'm not a native of Solaris, so I'd like to know how to get it done manually. I have manually added a crontab to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/, like -rw--- 1 root udippel1059 Dec 16 13:58 udippel Now, it does

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] crontab no go!

2008-12-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
Cindy, probably you are right. Unfortunately, my search in the bug database didn't reveal this bug, because it is not accessible outside of SUN. It is nv103. Strangely, though, on one of my nv103, dtpad does come up as root, on another one it doesn't, it shows the same message that it greets th

[sysadmin-discuss] crontab no go!

2008-12-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
This is what I get as a user setting a cronjob: bash-3.2$ crontab -e ttdt_open failed: TT_ERR_PROCIDThe process id passed is not valid. Crontab -e as root works okay, though. If it was a permission problem, it should inform me verbosely. Otherwise, I have no clue what the problem could be.

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] After luupgrade to nv_101, cannot revert to nv_99

2008-11-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
Alas, not. What I get is (I don't know how to copy it, so I used pencil and paper): ZFS 1/6 cannot mount '/export': directory is not empty (6/6) /usr/bin/zfs mount -a failed exit status 1 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default: /lib/svc/method/fs-local failed system /filesystem/local:default fail

[sysadmin-discuss] After luupgrade to nv_101, cannot revert to nv_99

2008-11-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
I did a - hopefully proper - luupgrade of nv_99 to nv_101; like [i] lofiadm -a /export/home/udippel/Sources/sol-nv-b101-x86-dvd.iso mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /b sh /b/Solaris_11/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20 lucreate -n nv_101 luupgrade -u -n nv_101 -s /b umount /b lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1 luactiv

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Mike Gerdts wrote: > > You should be able to confirm that this is your problem with: > > $ find . | awk 'length($0) > 8192 {print length($0), $0}' > Strange enough, this runs in almost no time: pressing enter is followed by the command prompt immediately: # find . | awk 'length($0) > 8192 {pri

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should be able to confirm that this is your problem with: > > $ find . | awk 'length($0) > 8192 {print length($0), $0}' > > And could likely work around it by using perl to do the sorting: > > $ find . | perl -e 'print s

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm no sort expert but it looks like the sort program has a bug: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=506 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/17725 Cindy, I didn't think the bug of late 2004 had never been resolved? So is this a new

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] zoneadm: [...]: illegal UUID value specified

2008-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Ceri Davies wrote: >> is what I get in lumake. I tried Google and found one link, in French. >> % zoneadm -z t-zone list -v >> ID NAME STATUS PATH BRANDIP >> >>- t-zone configured /export/t-zone native >> shared >

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-08-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
I could, but it won't help, it will miss the relevant options for gupdatedb: # cat /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb | grep sort sort="/usr/bin/sort -z" } | $sort -f | $frcode $frcode_options > $LOCATE_DB.n } | tr / '\001' | $sort -f | tr '\001' / > $filelist $bigram $bigram_opts < $filelist | sort |

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] zoneadm: [...]: illegal UUID value specified

2008-08-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
[I enter it manually, it didn't make it through the vetting] Ceri Davies wrote: is what I get in lumake. I tried Google and found one link, in French. % zoneadm -z t-zone list -v ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP - t-zone

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-08-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
[I copy it into here, it didn't go through the vetting until now] Mike Gerdts wrote: You should be able to confirm that this is your problem with: $ find . | awk 'length($0) > 8192 {print length($0), $0}' Strange enough, this runs in almost no time: pressing enter is followed by th

[sysadmin-discuss] sort runs out of memory

2008-08-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
Noticed this using gupdatedb from Blastwave. [Yes, I filed it there, but no answer] # gupdatedb sort: insufficient memory; use -S option to increase allocation Broken Pipe Played a bit with it, but didn't go away. Searched Google, and this was something way back in Solaris 10. But nothing actua

[sysadmin-discuss] zoneadm: [...]: illegal UUID value specified

2008-08-23 Thread Uwe Dippel
zoneadm: zone 't-zone': illegal UUID value specified is what I get in lumake. I tried Google and found one link, in French. % zoneadm -z t-zone list -v ID NAME STATUS PATH BRANDIP - t-zone configured /export/t-zone na