I've not posted a summary for this one because one of the issues still hasn't
been resolved, and because I've been on vacation for the past couple of
weeks.
The first problem was, as pointed out by several people, that anonymous ftp
was enabled but improperly configured.
The second problem has been under investigation while I was on vacation. I
suspect that my backup person has screwed it up royally. It appears that the
SCSI bus is bad, but Sun has first tried to replace the system disk. Let us
pray that my backups are as good as I think theyi are ...
Rodney
Original question:
> I've got a Sparcstation 20 that is giving the following error every couple
of
> minutes:
>
> ftpd[8872]: open_pam_conf: stat(/etc/pam.conf) failed: No such file or
> directory
>
> Obviously, it's ftp related, but "/etc/pam.conf" does exist and is readable
> by everybody. Can anyone tell me what the system is complaining about?
>
> Also, right after I rebooted the system yesterday I got a bunch of SCSI
> errors:
>
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f
> ,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: Connected command timeout for Target 2.0
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f
> ,400000/esp@f,800000 (esp0):
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: Target 2.0 reducing sync. transfer rate
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f
> ,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@2,0 (sd2):
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: SCSI transport failed: reason 'timeout':
> retryin
> g command
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix:
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f
> ,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@2,0 (sd2):
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset':
> retrying
> command
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix:
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f
> ,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@4,0 (sd4):
> Sep 7 17:17:20 nsfwsd unix: SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset':
> retrying
> command
>
> I've not seen this before. Is my disk about to die?
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