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Semaphores and /etc/system file
I have two Solaris 2.5 boxes that I need to enable the semaphores on for installation of HP Openview. After adding forceload and set statements per the install book, ipcs enables the semaphores on one box but not the other. Doesn't help to copy the /etc/system file over from the working box. I can enable the semaphores in Solaris 2.3 fine with those same values. Yes, I reboot after the changes. How can you tell if the shmsys and semsys modules are loaded? Can anyone help me?
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PXH has good advice, but doesn't need to start out the answer in, what I perceive, as a snotty way. The answer could have been started with the third sentence. Not all of us have had the privilege to be as trained in UNIX as we should be. I have two college degrees, am a CNE, and am by no means slow. My work environment is very, very dynamic and I don't normally don't have time to sit down and study. Also, I have everything from Novell 3.x and 4.x to UNIX to Windows NT to Windows 95 and comms to support. Maybe someday I will get funding approved for additional UNIX training, but in the mean time, I have to dig and sweat out heavy UNIX questions. I look forward to getting some support at this site and have recommended it to many of my professional contacts.
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girlwonder
Thank you.
girlwonder
girlwonder,
sorry, if I had a tone you didn't like, this was certainly not intended. Please accept my excuses and allow me to add that since I am German, I might miss some subtelties in my own writing. Anyhow, "snotty" is not in my vocabulary nor in my dictionnary, so I can only guess what you really critisized. Also, please under stand my situation, I read your question and the other information you give. Then I have to understand what the problem is or could be. I also have to consider that somebody else might lateron read the question/answer. So if I find something which seems imprecise in the question I have several reasons to correct it in the answer, first it might really be a misunderstanding by the questions author and second I don't want it inherited into the archive of expert-exchange.
So I was really surprised about your comment and that you seemed to take something personally, which absolutely wasn't meant that way.
Best regards,
Peter
sorry, if I had a tone you didn't like, this was certainly not intended. Please accept my excuses and allow me to add that since I am German, I might miss some subtelties in my own writing. Anyhow, "snotty" is not in my vocabulary nor in my dictionnary, so I can only guess what you really critisized. Also, please under stand my situation, I read your question and the other information you give. Then I have to understand what the problem is or could be. I also have to consider that somebody else might lateron read the question/answer. So if I find something which seems imprecise in the question I have several reasons to correct it in the answer, first it might really be a misunderstanding by the questions author and second I don't want it inherited into the archive of expert-exchange.
So I was really surprised about your comment and that you seemed to take something personally, which absolutely wasn't meant that way.
Best regards,
Peter
the system, running the following command:
#sysdef -i
This command shows the actual values of the parameters
of the system like this (between others):
*
* IPC Messages
*
100 entries in msg map (MSGMAP)
2048 max message size (MSGMAX)
4096 max bytes on queue (MSGMNB)
50 message queue identifiers (MSGMNI)
8 message segment size (MSGSSZ)
40 system message headers (MSGTQL)
1024 message segments (MSGSEG)
These values are loaded the first time you load the module
of msg. Test it!