Hello All,I come from a linux environment and want to learn Solaris. So far the knowledge that I know from linux is not working for renaming the hostname of my newly installed Solaris system. I'm read (and reread) the Systems Administration Advanced doc from Sun and followed everything there ...

Dear friendsI have a SUN 250 machineWhen i place console it showes following output CPU 0000.0000.0000.0000 AFSR 0010.0002.0000.0147 PRIV CEAFAR 0000.0003.3da3.c030 Sun Fire V250, No KeyboardCopyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.OpenBoot 4.11.4, 2048 MB memory ...

Hello All,I come from a linux environment and want to learn Solaris. So far the knowledge that I know from linux is not working for renaming the hostname of my newly installed Solaris system. I'm read (and reread) the Systems Administration Advanced doc from Sun and followed everything there ...

Hi,When I took the root hard disk(c1t0d0s0) from SFV480 and put in SFV890, the controller number changes to c3. That is c3t0d0s0.How this happens? What to do to get the same controller number c1?Thanks in advanceAshraf

SPARC Ultra 5 running Solaris 10 running Apache as a Web Server.My SPARC no longer has network access. When I reboot the server, I recieve the msgs "hme0: fault detected in device; service degraded" and "hme0: no response from Ethernet network: link down -- cable problems?"Prior to this new ...

Hi,What this phrase c0t0d0s0 signifies inside, /dev/dsk directory. I have seen many such entries inside /dev/dsk. Also format command lists out such entries which contain the above phrase. All entires inside /dev/dsk starts with either c0 or c3 or c5 ? What these char set stands for ? This is ...

Hi GuysI am using NTP Client base on Solaris 10 vs NTP server base on windows XP.My NTP server configured to GMT+3when i am running the following command /etc/rc2.d/S74xntpd startthe time is changed but incorrect it is GMT +5 and not GMT +3where is the GMT configuration. ?Thanks for your ...

Hi AllI just tried to change my 'root' crontab but I got the following result;bash-2.03# crontab -e1341and then nothing. I can exit with Ctrl + D.Any suggestion what might be the reason I cannot edit it ?Thnx a lotLuCaUpdate: Its on a Solaris 8 sparc systemMessage was edited by: ...

Whenever I shutdown my system, several files systems remain busy. Here is the console log:# shutdown -g0 -i0 -yShutdown started.Wed Aug 23 11:02:07 EDT 2006Changing to init state 0 - please waitBroadcast Message from root (console) on tepp6sct01 Wed Aug 23 11:02:07...THE SYSTEM tepp6sct01 IS ...

How do I find out if NiS slave is syncing with NIS master properly? ThanksAnna

I'm looking into options to minimize support costs on some servers which are no longer "mission critical" in our data center.If I contract with a third party for hardware support, does SUN offer software only contracts?If I contract with a third party for both hardware and software support, ...

Hi,I am runnig opensolaris build 41, I have enabled smcwbem:default service using svcadm commnand.I am not able to enter into cimworkshop. I get following error in a popup box on runnining /usr/sadm/bin/cimworkshop.Unknown CIM error : TIMED_OUTAny idea, what needs to be done to make it ...

I am running cediag in a cronjob and get the following out put:/opt/SUNWcest/bin/cediag -L >/dev/null # SUNWcestproduced the following output:suicide@cediag: Please use fmadm(1M) on Solaris 10 (or higher).suicide@cediag: exiting ...I don't know what I need to do with fmadm. Any ideas?#fmadm ...

Hi All ,What is the use FIFO file in the directory /etc/cron.d.Thanks in advance.Regards,Rajesh Kannan R.

Hi,Does anyone have any experience with setup of Solaris 10 x86 U2 to run diskless? I've followed the instructions in the Basic Admin book using setup_install_server, smosservice, and smdiskless), but the /tftpboot directory never gets populated with anything and there's nothing anywhere ...

Hello,I am getting following error but machine works fine.00070002: "VOLTAGE_SENSOR @ MB.V_+1V5 has exceeded low warning threshold."I tried to google it but most of them are related to Mother Board battery.

I am having an old HP 9000 Server with 8/24GB DAT drive and want to transfer all the data amounting to 200GB to the newly installed V480 Server with 40/80GB DAT drive. Can somebody suggest the best possible way of doing it, since the DATs are incompatible across the platforms?

Could you tell me why I磎 not able to rsh to another machine ? rsh is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, I made an entry in /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.equiv and $HOME/.rhosts (both machines), but I can磘 rsh to another machine. Issuing rlogin I get: Connection refused # rsh solaris01 w permission denied # ...

Dear SSH experts,I was working for troubleshooting SSH for the whole afternoon. I have no idea what's wrong with my configuration.Whatever you input password or not,your login window hung up. Please refer to the following debug log:root@walden # /usr/lib/ssh/sshd -ddddebug1: sshd version ...

Hi,My diskless server exports the client's /usr as read only. Can someone please tell me the ramifications of exporting it read/write?Thanks,Dave

Hi,My client's extra (non-primary) Ethernet interfaces aren't being configured even though I put entries for them in the client's sysidcfg file. Could someone please tell me if this indicates a problem in the sysidcfg file or something more insidious?Thanks,Dave

I have an application that required JRE 1.3.1.12 and another one required 1.4.2 or up. I tried to install 1.4.2_06 and 1.4.2_12 with no problem. The application succeed to use JRE 1.3.1_12 but as soon as install a 1.5 version, my application try to use 1.5 and not 1.3.1_12 anymore so the ...

This may be a stupid question but is it possible to configure RSC and ALOM such that you can use ssh rather than telmet?

On all my Solaris 10 boxes, after a clean reboot, all submirrors "need maintenance". A metasync immediately clears the problem. Is this a bug or a feature? d0: MirrorSubmirror 0: d10State: Needs maintenance Submirror 1: d20State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1Read option: roundrobin (default)Write ...

Hi All,I'm using solaris 2.8, and I want create a new ftp user account, with restricted ftp access to a particuler directory, example: /home/softawre/billingI already googled, but always falling on other third parties ftp software, like proftpd...., or recommendation to setup anonymous ftp, ...

I have to put some Solaris 10 hosts on the Net with no firewall. I would be perfectly comfortable with this except I cannot get syslogd to not open a UDP port somewhere greater than 32767. I have port 514 disabled with LOG_FROM_REMOTE=NO.Has anyone dealt with this? The only alternative I can ...

I've caused an odd situation to occur on my Ultra 10 WS running Solaris 9 and CDE. I was installing a java-based program from the CDROM and the system apparently hung. I tried ^C out but no response. I opened another window and attempted to kill -9, which also went into lala land. So I opened ...

Dear All , We have sunfire 240 ,solaris 10 6/6 (+July Recomended Patches) and have ZFS file system on A5K and multipack.We got problem while restoring from zfs snapshot .This log from Solaris Crash Analys toolspanic[cpu0]/thread=30000feb640: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a1014a7230 addr=0 mmu_fsr=0 ...

hi,I hav installed sun 10 on intel xeon 3 Ghz machin with two inbuit giga ethernet port.after successful installtion sun has detected only 0th giga interface as e1000g0 1) now i want to plump e1000g1 interface. when i plumb i got following o/p:bash-3.00# ifconfig e1000g1 plumbifconfig: ...

I have Solairs 10 6/06. I am trying to print to a network attached HP 5M printer.I have tried lpadmin and cups and cannot get either to work.I followed the instructions in the sun handbook for printing to the HP. # svcs -a | grep printonline Sep_01svc:/application/print/cleanup:defaultonline ...

I applied the latest (Aug/25/06) patch set the other day. On my NIS master ypserv, after a time greater then 10 minutes, goes into a loop taking over one out of my processors. 4979 root100 5576K 2176K cpu395:00 24.99% ypservIn syslog there is a warning on startup.ypserv[4979]: [ID 783678 ...

Hello,Is Solaris DHCP server suitable for use by an ISP? We have more than ten thousand of clients and growing.We used ISC DHCP on Linux in the past with standard text files backend, but because of difficult and inaccurate methods of automating the configuration changes (scripted text ...

Hello All,I am new to solaris admin world. on one of our production SunFire V880, I observed the following error:Sep 3 06:31:46 mnissrv SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 436881 kern.info] NOTICE: [AFT0] UCC Event detected by CPU0 in Privileged mode at TL=0, errID 0x0017ce7a.326cc388Sep 3 06:31:46 ...

Hi I have V800 and run solaris 9. I have downloaded these 2 files:9_Recommended.zip and 9_SunAlert_Patch_Cluster.zip1. is there any order to run these patches2. If the patch already exists, and re-run this, will it be any harm3. is installing the patch as easy as just to run install_cluster4. ...

Hi all,One of the developers on the machine (sparc, solaris 9) used crle command to set the library path to /usr/local/lib. This broke all the functionality and it became unresponsive after which it was turned off and then on, now its failing to even boot.The error it shows is: failed to load ...

Hi Friends,I am getting the following error from my V240 server, (contains 2 disks)WARNING: VxVM vxio V-5-3-0 voldmp_errbuf_sio_start: Failed to flush the error buffer 0x52d1978 on device0x1100000002b to DMPWARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2 (glm0):Resetting scsi bus, got incorrect phase from ...

In Linux, there are clock -w to synchronize system date with cmos date.How bout solaris?Are there any?

Hi to all,I have a Sun Enterprise 6500 running with solaris 8 and Veritas Volume Manager 3.2 with boot disk incapsulated. After a DIMM failure the system done a panic and boot again perfectly. All this happen on friday, I received the part on monday but in the week-end the system panic again ...

Hi,I've been trying to get a Solaris 10 x86 diskless client setup going but am having lots of problems with missing packages (in spite of attempting to install the "ARCH=all" packages). So I decided to scrub the whole thing and start over, but when I try to simply list the diskless client via ...

Hi!We have an application that is running in Solaris 8 US-English version. We currently use rmail to send email notification messages from the application to users. We need to be able to send email in international language (both in subject and body). I have two questions regarding this.1. Is ...

Hi,I am trying to play with link aggregation feature on Sun x4100 (Solaris 10 06/06 + all patches)># cat /etc/hostname.aggr1>srv1># cat /etc/hosts | grep srv1 | head -1>10.2.33.3srv1.domain.com srv1># cat /etc/inet/ipnodes | grep srv1 | head -1>10.2.33.3srv1># ifconfig ...

hi, we have not patch our 2 node Sun Cluster for 1year, and if we wanted to install the latest security/solaris patch cluster on the 2 boxes, can we follow the steps below1) Install the patch cluster on the passive node (svr1) and do a reboot.Fail over the primary node (svr2) and patch svr2 and ...

Recently I have tried to install pam_ldap (from padl.com).Because of many problems I followed somebody's advise to copy lobldap.XXX files from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib.From that moment I have problems with su.I am getting also the following messages from /var/adm/messages: Sep 4 16:48:00 ...

Hi,We have a StorEdge_L8 jukebox attached to a Solaris9 server (with EBS 7.1 software), but recently it has stopped working.Firstly, on the last backup i ran i've just noticed that some of the Volumes show some entries as "suspect aborted" - what does this mean? Is there something wrong with ...

Hello..I'm new to the Sun Solaris OS (we are using 5.8). It would appear our host_agent requires openssl, and it would appear that this isn't part of the OS in 5.8. I found a freeware version of openssl, and it requires a Ansi standard C compiler.When I attempt to issue a 'cc' command it ...

HelloI need to add 10 users to 500+ servers, is there a way that I can script this to alter /etc/passwd /etc/shadow. So I am looking for some advice on automation of password setting and expiring password. That way I can for loop a server list and ssh to each one and run this script? Or any ...

I am a newbCan some please tell me how i can configure samba on Solaris 10 ? Is samba already installed on Solaris 10?Here is the result of what i found on the systembash-3.00# svcs -a | grep sambalegacy_runSep_06lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S90sambabash-3.00#Your help is greatly ...

Hello.We are trying to make run a Sunfire V480 server. The situation is that there is not a video signal.The video card came apart, it was installed.When the server is turned on, there is no information in the screen, it looks like when the video cable is unplugged. The green led in the monitor ...

Dear all,I didn't succeed to download any of the Java products in this site because it asked me for username and password and it didn't accept my SDLC user and pass. May I ask you how I can get the required authentication specifications?Thank you,Azadeh

Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...