Gurus,I have a Sun Fire V890 with 4x1.2G(dual core) and 16G Memory to serveas proxy server,recently,I found the system calls is much higher thanthe user calls by monitoring system usage via "mpstat",as(in part):CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 1803 3213 ...

Dear All,I have a major problem while installing Solaris 10 on my IBM T43 Laptop. Here is my problem:- I boot from Solaris 10 DVD- I select the option "Solaris" from the grub menu- I get 6 installation options1. Solaris interactive(Default)2. Custom jumpstart3. Solaris interactive text(desktop ...

Hi there , I have a 4 disk SunFire X4100 (x86) and my customer has specified that they want their disks to be in a mirrored configuration ....my understanding was that DiskSuite (or whatever its called now) didnt support x86, is this the case and if so, does anybody know of any options ...

hi,i need help with write shell script. I have on disk some file with name: file01.jpg, file02.jpg, file03.jpg...file99.jpg. In disk have directory with name 01, 02, 03...99. I need script with mv funcionality to moving file01.jpg to directory 01, file02.jpg to directory 02... t is beyond ...

Hi,thanks for taking the time to review my question. I create a flar on a system with quad NIC card. When I restore the server with the same flar with a jumpstart server, it does not restore all the networking, like /etc/hostname.bge0, /etc/hostname.bge1, ... I have to use finish script to ...

Hi AllI have Sol10 up and running. I noticed that it was not very easy to mount a linux disk with nfs. I found out that I had to add -o vers=3. Now I would like to mount a disk from a Sol8 systemSo far I only managed to get:mount sol8sys:/storage /mnt/sol8sysnfs mount: sol8sys:/storage: ...

Hi,we installed latest pathches and Packages for soalris10 x86 on Sunfire X4100 Server.after finishing the patch, we can't able to work this commands "mv , cp" command is not working.Error1:# mv hariganesh /optld.so.1: mv: fatal: libsec.so.1: version `SUNW_1.2' not found (required by file ...

hi,many times i tried to download Solaris 10 OS, x86, to install it on a dell GX620 intel pc.i am not able to down load the os from https://www.sun.com/download site.any can help me with an alternate solution?thanks,raju

Hi I have a Sunfire X4100 box with a 4 disk Chassis (although I only have 2 disks in it). I have been asked to add two more disks into the chassis so that I can mirror the original two using SVM .....Ive read through a couple of SVM docs but am finding it a little confusing, and if any of you ...

Hi I want to upgrade Open SSL to 0.9.8d in all my Sun servers.Will there be any patch for doing that or i need to remove the previous installation and put a new one.Please advice me.prathap.

Controversy abounds.Some say the best layout is to put everything under / if so, will a Solaris 10 server crash if / fills up? Will Linux servers crash under the same circumstance?Others say break out /usr, /var/, and /opt.Then there's the question of which slices and cylinders to use for ...

HaiCould anybody help me to setup the dns in solaris 9.0.I recently install one solaris9.0 in that i want to configure a dns (DNS server) Please sent the steps how to configure DNS server in Solaris 9.0RegardsSolarisTeam

How do I use ufsdump to clone a larger scsi disk from a smaller scsi disk? Here is what I need to accomplish.I have an E250 that my OS disk is 9GB and I want to install a 147GB disk (can't get 9GB disks easily).At the moment I have 3 disks (1x9GB and 2x18GB) in the 6 slot raid system. I am ...

Can any one tell me the steps of DHCP in solaris 9.0Waiting for the response

I know that root is the only user-id that can manage these ports (80 and 443), but right now I need to use other user-id for assiggning these ports (for security reasons) , how can i do this one?, is enough assign one user to root group?thanks!!!!

Hello,''Does any have or does anyone know where Installation Procedures for the Trusted Solaris 8 are kept/hidden.Hate to reinvent the wheel....Even a small part would be helpful....Dennis K.Thanks

Hi I am trying to run two web servers in one box.I have Apache 2.0.54 in my sun box with Sun 10 OS on x86.What i need is, i want to run one more instance of Apache completely independent of the original one.is it possible to create one more apache instance completely independent ?if so ple ...

Hi,At any given time, how can we find out the patch installation history in solaris.For example, I want to know when my solaris9 kernel was patched to 118558-33 etc.Please suggest,Thanks & Regards.

HiIs there any way to limit the users that can log into Solaris 8/9 remotely?I want to stop access as the oracle user so that su'ing in enforced. The only way I have found this to be (indirectly) possible is to implement RBAC. AIX 4.3 + supported this feature, is there a way to do it without ...

Hello Sun Team!After running sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd.exe having fun fron NOSS(R):The extraction failed for an unknown reason. Info ID: 6717.439.02.2.10025Hard&soft:IBM IntelliStation M Pro PIV-3000, WinXPSP2.yours Zile

Hello,HELP..TRULY..I blew away the default loaded label_encodingsfile and there are several candidates in the /etc/security/tsol dir.Does anyone know what is the default loaded file?HELP!!

How do I to query the HBAs under Solaris10 x86 (AMD processor) based servers to find out about the firmware levels of the HBAs? Qlogic QLE 2462 4GB

Machine: SunFire V240zO/S: Solaris 9 12/03Doing an ls -l ssh* shows ssh_config and sshd_config as -rw-r--r-- root sysI modified sshd_config on Nov. 11th. Now I want to edit it again but I can't access it beyond seeing it in an ls listing. Even logged in as root I can't chown, chmod, chgrp, ...

Hello all,I'm trying to get IPMP working on a X4100. (I've it running on a V60).But I'm stuck. When I try to add a networkinterface to a group the whole group fails after some 30 seconds. The command I use is:ifconfig e1000g0 group testkpThis command succeeds and ifconfig -a shows that ...

We are running Solaris 8 on multiple V480 servers. There are several Network Monitoring applications loaded (HPOV, CISCO WORKS, SERVICEonDATA) in addition to Remedy, BrightStor etc, etc, etc.I have a SYSADMIN background with HP- HPUX 11.x. I would regularly reboot every 30 days or so to clean ...

I am trying to get our users to use ssh/scp instead of ftp due to security. Can I state that the current ftp sends id/password in cleartext - and that is a security issue - or has that been remedied in current versions of solaris? (we are on 8.1.6). Are there other issues with ftp? Thanks

How can you determine which patch solves a particular bug if all you have is the bug id?I apologize if this is a frequent or stupid question but I cannot seem to find anything which addresses this.

I have a sf6900 connected to some EMC disks via some dual port HBAs. I need to be able to configure Alternate-Pathing(mpxio or dmp) and then test the fail-over works.Hope someone can help,Pat

I would like to know if there is way to stop/restrict anonymous binds via IP, if so I need some detailed directions because I am new to The Solaris platform and also the Sun Directory Sever. Thanks.

Hi,I keep seeing this following a command:>& /dev/stdoutWhat does this mean?thx,

I configured a cron as this way :39 12 * * * /scripts/echo#more echo#!/bin/sh/usr/bin/echo HOLAthe echo script is just to be sure that cron works but it dos not Solaris 8 is installed.anybodoy knows somthing?

Solaris 10 installed in SFV490 serverConfigured RSC.Netmanagement port not responding to telnet sessiontried to connect the interface cable but no result still IP address not pinging no telnet session.able to connect through serial port through laptop/desktop

Newbie question...I have installed net-snmp on a V880 running Solaris 9. The install appeared to complete without issue. However, when I attempt to start snmp, I get the following...bash-2.05# /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx startbash-2.05# ./snmpd -f -L[init_smux] bind failed: Address already in ...

My objective is to keep a job running even when the connection is terminated. How to use nohup when running a script?thx

when I issue command 'who', I see a user connecting to the server. Is it possible to send a message to this user that will display on his screen?thx

Is is possible to be able to use command recall keys with the Korn Shell within Solaris 10?Thanks, Brett

Currently we have a disk that has been partitioned into s0 and s1.In our vfstab we mount s0 on dir0 and s1 on dir1.E.g.mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dir0mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /dir1I was wondering if there are disadvantages to having a single parition s0that contains a couple of sub directories, ...

I'm trying to setup ssh login without password, but unable to ssh localhost without being prompted for password. I followed the following steps1) ssh-keygen -t dsa2) cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keysBut when i tried to ssh localhost, I was prompted for a password. The system is a Sun ...

To all Sun experts:I bought a Sun ultra on ebay which came without any OS installed on it. Here is the configuartion:Dual 450Mhz sparcII processors2 Gig of RAMDual 18 Gig SCSI harddrivesSCSI CDROMI am having problem in booting Ultra 60 from the CD. It gives me the the message saying: "The file ...

Hi1. can anyboy tell me which file will give the login prompt?2. What is the path for crontab file?3. Where we have to find the system log after the system crashes?4. How do you view shared memory statistics?Thanks in Advance

Hi,We have Solaris 10 installed on an AMD hardware.Why does the "uname -p" command, which is supposed to display the processor type return i386? I should have displayed x86_64, isn't it?# uname -pi386# psrinfo -pvThe physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0) x86 (AuthenticAMD family 15 ...

Had a power outage yesterday, and now one of out 480's won't boot:Rebooting with command: boot -arBoot device: /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@0,0:a File and args: -arEnter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]:Enter default directory for modules [/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R/kernel ...

Hi1. Which command to find total hard disk space in most Solaris platform? df -k isn't enough.2. How can i find id of a process listening on a specific port.for example If I do a nestat on my sytem> netstat -an | grep 1088610.234.52.64.10886 *.*00 491520 LISTENHow can I know what process id ...

Hi,By mistakenly i executed "rem_drv sd" command and reboot the host, now the host is sitting at OK prompt.can anyone tell me how can I recover this host.Thanks,Mallik

Hi,By mistakenly I executed "rem_drv sd" command and reboot the host, now the host is sitting at OK prompt.can anyone tell me how can I recover this host.Thanks,Mallik

Hi AllI need to start some software when solaris boots. Right now its ntpd. However I have no clue how to do this with Solaris 10. I assume there is a tool to do this, something likerc-update add ntpd default (the GenToo way)Thanks a lotLuCa

I have a DBA complaining about slow Oracle import performance, claiming it takes him 4 hrs on an 8-CPU E4500 and only 45 min on a 4-CPU E420R. Solaris 8 OS.Oracle import seems to be single threaded and on the slow system spends 50% os the time in system mode on one CPU and 50% in user mode on ...

Dear Experts ,Kindly explain about Mile Stone in Solaris 10.Thanks in advance.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Two solaris sun boxes; V490, V890.I have connectivity established to both local (ten dot) and external networks.I have on the 890 a single-headed nic; on the 490 I have an open connection port on the integrated nic.I want to connect the two with a direct cable (cross over). The two boxes are at ...

can anyone tell me what official patch IDR 117987-01 was rolled into?