Happy Holiday everyone.Question (naturally): I'll try to be clear, yet detailed enough!Does stmsboot or mpathadm (for Solaris 10 U3) play nice with ZFS for goodfailover/HA solution.I'm currently using Sol. 10 6/06 (u2) with some zpools and stmsboot -e,but my devices don't seem to change when ...

Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot required.How do I do this in SUN, solaris 10 mostly, although 8/9 steps are helpful too. ...

Please excuse cross posting, not sure which forum this topic should be filed under...Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot ...

Hi, i installed the e1000g driver on my t2000. now i want to use linkaggregation with dladm. I setup 1 aggregate with 2 interfaces, each interface is physically connected to another switch (2 cisco 6500 trunked). The setup of the trunking with dladm was straight forward, but now i get this ...

Hi, can any one help me in getting th practice questions for solaris10 certofication for free some where on the net !!! and also any suggested study guid apart from Exam Prep ..of course hands on practice on the servers with sol10 ..thnks,susesun

I have a log file that I want to rotate eac day without keeping old copies. how to achieve that using logadm?thx

Is there a way to change root's project? It is currently set to default #id -puid=0(root) gid=0(root) projid=3(default)and I want it to be user.root.I have tried modifying /etc/user_attr and adding project=user.root to root's entry but does not work.Any suggestions wouold be ...

Hello, How can I tell what package is missing for 64bit libraries? Files that are missing are:/usr/lib/sparcv9/libCrun*/usr/lib/sparcv9/libCstd*Latest patch for these files is: 108435-22How would I go about finding what this package is, and where could this magical package be downloaded ...

Hello,the following expression will print me everything between mark1 and mark 2:cat /tmp/file | nawk '{/mark1/,/mark2/ { print $0 }'How can I make it that it will print everything EXCEPT these two marks?Thank youWolfgang

I'm trying to upgrade a V490 from Solaris 9 4/04 to Solaris 10 6/06. luupgrade is ending with "is partially complete". Support is suggesting that I just delete the upgrade_failed_pkgadds file and continue on, but this is my first Solaris upgrade and I'm concerned about breaking something down ...

HiWhen I traceroute to a PC from Solaris 9 SPARC system, it is going through an IP which supposed not to.This unwanted IP is not given in/etc/default/defaultrouter or/etc/rc2.d/s76static-routesWhere else I have to check? Please advise.

I have Solaris 10 x86, have enabled the SAMBA, I need to take backup of that shared folder on Windows, When I used the NTBACKUP it gives error that the mapped drive is not responding.Where am I wrong?Please helpregardsMehul

WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before usewhat cause above messages in system log

Hi,What is SSL client ? Does SSL client come default with Solaris 8?

1. In the Reference Manual:Using File Templates...This directory stores file templates that are copied to aJumpStart client during a hardening run.Not just Jumpstart clients as I can tell, but standalone runs as well.2. Messed up numeric list in docs:To Add a New Variable to the user.init ...

I recently set up a new jumpstart configuration on a Solaris 9 server. I believe I've followed all the various instructions but cannot get the jumpstart to work for either Sol 9 or 10 CD's I've loaded.When I run the add_install_client for a Solaris 9 client, then do "boot net - install" it ...

Each night, sometime between 23:00 and 03:00 CST, our new MX server gets CRUSHED by botnet attacks from Poland. We've tried the both the sendmail shipped with Solaris 10 (sparc) and compiling our own. We've tried setting the confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN to anything from 500 to 200. We've tried ...

HiI am working on a DR plan, and have been given the following scenario.The server and all local disks have been destroyed.All that remains is the SAN (offsite replica)Assuming we can rebuild the host in identical hardware, and connect to the SAN, can we recover the volumes on the SAN.(The ...

HiI have a setup of solaris 9 ,I have installed squirrelmail-1.4.8 with pluggin change_passwd-3.0.1 along with compatibility......Now if user try to chage password he is unable to....It's giving an error...."you forget the uername"RegardsRP

Greetings,I'm running into a problem that I suspect might be caused by a security patch on SunOS 5.8. I have several scripts that grep the output of "/usr/ucb/ps awwx", in order to identify the PID for several java processes. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be working any longer- the PS ...

Hello,I'm trying to get a KVM switch running with my blade 100, and I'm having little luck. I have belkin switch that does usb and I'm using a dell keyboard and logitech mouse. The system works when I boot it up, however when I switch off of it, it crashes, syncs the disk, and reboots. I ...

HiThe following is reported after booting a Solaris 10 machine (V240).The result is that I cannot login remotely to this machine.As a clue, this has happened after I changed the NIS server this machine is talking to, but I did the old fashioned way, that is, I did not use SMC. To find out was ...

helloI have a problem with a crout file, that made grow my /tmp FS.I deleted the file, but the FS is still on 98%.What to do?Thanks a lot

HI there,Looking at previous discussions I think a lot of people are getting confused the same as me in regards to file descriptor limits.What I want to know is what is soft and hard limits, and what is the difference between the rlim setting in /etc/system and a setting that applies to a shell ...

Hi all:Is there any command to get the logical NIC name according to MAC address?The 'ifconfig -a' command only list the network information for these plumbed network card.But how to get the logical name for these unplumbed network cards if I know the MAC address?Thanks a ...

Hello everyone,I am building Nagios 2.6 on Solaris 8 and for the most part, have it compiled, installed and running. However, for any pages that generate a picture (statusmap.cgi, histogram.cgi, etc.) error out with a library error - here's the apache error log:- ld.so.1: statusmap.cgi: fatal: ...

Hi I have SunFire e450 machine and want to install Samba. I am trying this for the first time and I have downloaded samba-latest.tar.gz and when I cd /u01/solaris_patches/samba-3.0.23d/source./configureSAMBA VERSION: 3.0.23dchecking for -fPIE...checking for gcc... nochecking for cc... ...

Hi does anyone have a scrip that will synchronizing two directories on different server ?

When I run the smc web access to port 898 version 2.1 under OS 9 I receive the message in the browser: A web version of the Solaris Management Console is not available at this time.To run the Solaris Management Console client, at a terminal window for this host, type: /usr/sadm/bin/smcI've ...

HI I have SunFire V880 and it has 12 HDD. This morning I saw this message in /var/adm/messagesJan 4 07:35:42 etpdb1 md_raid: [ID 371651 kern.warning] WARNING: md d0: write error on /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s2 Jan 4 07:35:42 etpdb1 last message repeated 1 time Jan 4 07:35:43 etpdb1 md_raid: [ID 104909 ...

If I'm using either a cron'd ntpdate or a running xntpd to keep server time, do I still need to patch my Solaris OS for the new DST start date in March? Seems like my box will be told what time it is, and away we go. Or am I missing something?Thanks.

I'm trying to figure out if the openldap software installed on one of my boxes (downloaded from openldap.org and installed via ./configure, make, make install) is able to use SSL.I can see that 'configure' wasn't originally run with anything to enable TLS.When I run configure --help, I see ...

I have been using fssnap to backup the whole server for 2 years. Recently, I got some problem with it.My servers are using Solaris 9, which using fssnap to create a partition image on a separate partition. Then, the image will be picked up by tape drive.Recently, we got problems with these ...

Hi,We are running business critical applications on our sun servers (who doesn't ;)...and would like to do something about the daylight savings time rule change that will come into effect this year. We are in the pacific standard time zone. Sun has released a set of patches to deal with this ...

Hi Friends,I started a new work of managing database and backup servers which are running in solaris. Please tell me, through which command i will know like what type of raid is configured in solaris 8 machines using disksuite software......thanks & regardsVJ.

how do I make sure all of my solaris 8-9-10 systems are ready for march time change?

-I would like to create a script to add a normal Oracle user to a system with root priviledge. -This means the Oracle user will have a group ID 0 because he has root priviledge. -The password belongs to that Oracle user will be valid for three days only. -After that, it will be expired to ...

I recently used live upgrade to go from Solaris 9 to 10 on my Sun V210. Doing so immediately caused more CPU and Memory usage by my java processes. These are aprox 12 custom made java programs that are running on a development server, and so should see very little utilization except during ...

Morning all,Sadly my skills lie with HP-UX. I've been on the rosetta webiste but its not helped me a great deal to see equivalent commands. We havea sun server posting scsi errors as below:-stlsweb:/var/adm]tail -20 messagesJan 9 10:13:16 stlsweb scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]ASC: 0x29 ...

Hi,I have been tasked with updating the timezone information on a bunch of legacy solaris 2.7 systems we are upgrading. This upgrade is to reflect the recent timezone changes that will be reflected this year. I downloaded the latest timezone information from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and ...

Our users are not administrators. How do we control JRE updates on Windows 2003 Server-based networks without visiting each workstation and/or making every user an administrator (NOT acceptable)? Is there some sort of tool that can be installed on a server to push these updates at scheduled ...

Hello, Installing Solaris 7 Intel in a HP Compaq computer, can't configure graphics device for CDE to create a test-computer. The HP is provided Intel 82945G Express graphic device, 17-inc screen size and 1280x1024-60Hz.what kind of window system configuration need for Solaris 7 Intel ?Thanks ...

I can't find any documentation for lost password reset for the StorEdge systems. Does anyone know how to reset the password for them? Thanks!-tom

Hi Folks,We have a T2000 server and 3510 FC disk array working together in redundant point-to-point configuration (2 HBAs) . T2000 is running Solaris 10 11/06and disk array has 12 x 300 GB = 3.6TB total storage.We want to use ZFS and export storage via NFS mainly for users home directories.What ...

I have an openLDAP server which I am trying to secure using an iptables firewall. I have allowed incoming tcp and udp packets to 389 and 686 (I think) and Linux clients can authenticate with the firewall enabled. My solaris clients (using the Solaris LDAP client) can not authenticate with the ...

Hello!I have a SUN Fire V210 connected directly to Cisco router and I would like to Shutdown the interface at link level when the Services hosted in the machine go down, so the Cisco router realizes when the SUN interface is down and re-enrute the traffic to other interface.That is, I would ...

Got this message in /var/adm/messages on a V480 running Sol 8.I ran a recursive find on this inode and got:/devices/pci@8,700000/..: I/O errorWithin this directory I noticed there is no .. dir. server1:/devices/pci@8,700000 >> ls -lia./..: I/O errortotal 8512562 drwxr-xr-x5 rootsys 512 ...

I hope this is quick and easy to answer. We updated our servers last year when Indiana began observing DST. Now, the date's changing. How can I verify what date our servers have for DST? IE do they know the dates changing for DST this year or do I need to install a patch?

I have Solaris 9 9/04 installed.root@ultrasoul #quota -v ultrasoul Disk quotas for ultrasoul (uid 201): Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft /var/mail 0 56320 56320 1 8 10 /usr0 2148 307200 307200 28 0 0 root@ultrasoul #du -hs /var/mail/ultrasoul 50M ...

# edquota ultrasoul/etc/mnttab: no UFS filesystems with quotas file1) I tried to add the "rq" mount option to the /etc/vfstab file. but problem persistent.rw, quota is the same situation.2) I use quotaon -av, problem persistent and without any command output.I wonder what meaning of the error, ...