I have installed 11/06 Solaris 10 on a Dell Optiplex GX260. It has a 3Com3C905FX NIC and the mother board NIC. I turned the mother board NIC on in the BIOS because the installation didn't find the 905FX NIC.When I run /usr/sbin/prtconf -pv |moreI get the following results:<snip>node ...

I have installed 11/06 Solaris 10 on a Dell Optiplex GX260. It has a 3Com3C905FX NIC and the mother board NIC. I turned the mother board NIC on in the BIOS because the installation didn't find the 905FX NIC.When I run /usr/sbin/prtconf -pv |moreI get the following results:<snip>node ...

Does anyone know if/where the patch is the DST time change that is coming in March.I see they had for solaris 7, but I have been searching and can not find anything that is for solaris 6.

Hi!I have a syslog server and I want to the mail.info messages logging a separate file from a remote host. I don't want to logging mail.info messages from the localhost . How can I do this?Please, help!Judit

Hello,I磎 trying to install openssh in a Solaris 8 machine. I followed these setps:1.- Install the patch 112438-03 and boot -r2.- pkgadd -d openssh-4.4p1-sol8-sparc-localpkgadd -d openssl-0.9.6i-sol8-sparc-localpkgadd -d zlib-1.2.3-sol8-sparc-local3.- mkdir /var/emptychown root:sys ...

Hi, I'm trying to get SpamAssassin installed (via CPAN) but I'm getting a strange error. Google didn't provide any help. This is a machine which was installed as Solaris 10 01/06, but has since been upgraded (via dvd) to 06/06 and finally 11/06. # uname -aSunOS zone4 5.10 Generic_118855-33 ...

I'm continously recieving the following error message when trying to access my user accounts:CIM_ERR_FAILED: ld.so.1: /usr/java/bin/../bin/../jre/bin/../bin/i386/native_threads/java: fatal: libjvm.so: open failed: No such file or directory/usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smc[18]: 24549 KilledThe file ...

hii want to setup a NTP server but i did not fine the /etc/init.d/xntpdplus how to make a ntp.conf file in the /etc/inet ?what should it containany help please!!!!Thanks

Good day,I'm a NIS newbie (catching the train better late than never, I guess) and have configured my X4100 with RedHat EL4 as my NIS server. I don't have any slaves yet, but I've configured a Solaris 10 box as a cllient. I essentially only want to share passwd, group, alias and auto_home ...

HI ,, Kindly let me know how to find out the bandwidth used by my server currently.With regards,Anand ST

Seems like kernel settings for things like shmmax are no longer supported as in the past by changes to the /etc/system file. I have seen a few messages about the ability to make the process pretty much the same by "setting in the system file and setting up a global zone". Anyone know the actual ...

Hello everyone. I had stuck between chosing Soralis 10 and 8. I have SunFire280R and StorEDGE A1000. So when Im installing Solaris 8 and RAID Manager 6.22 all works, but I can't find SSH and Samba packages for it. I used them from Solaris 10. But resolving dependencies I screwed it up... When ...

I am experiencing a problem with cron that has just cropped up. I have been installing scripts on various networked machines using various approved standard user accounts. Up until recently, these scripts (just 1 or 2 lines) have been working fine. The scripts simply start a Perl script and ...

How do you make a non-IT savvy management see the importance of security, when you are the only one Sr System Engineer and the proprietary software's consultants believe:* running ssh instead of telnet = "it may be good but people depends on it so leave it that way"* defining ACLs to restrict ...

HelloI made a Link Aggregation on a T2000 with e1000g1 & e1000g2 successfully.Now i want to raise up the mtu size to mtu 9000 for the aggregation.I tried /etc/hostname.aggr mtu 9000unsuccessfully- MTU size still 1500/kernel/drv/etc/e1000g.confsetting Max Fram Size for 1 2 3 interface to ...

We still have a few servers on Solaris 8. I was testing adding the Time Zone patches for Solaris 8: 109809-04 and 108993-63 on some test systems. Patch 109809-04 installed fine, but 108993-63 says it was missing packages. I was told that all the packages listed under the 108993-63 patch ...

Question : Should I install the patches on all servers ?I have 4 servers , 2 in U.S ( A:10.10.10.1 , B:10.10.10.2 ),2 in HongKong ( C:192.168.1.1 D:192.168.1.2 )A and C are NTP servers, B is a client of A, D is a client of C.After I install patches on A and C , What about B and D ...

HiI've upgraded Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. All of the sudden the server hangs 1-4 times a day with the following messages:(I've greped for restarts and the strange messages)egrep -i 'SunOS|Resource temporarily unavailable' *14:Jan 12 20:06:02 invldnunetbkupv1 genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ...

Hi, We have the configuration of a three-tier application on sun v890 servers and each tier sits behind a firewall. i.e. database and application have a firewall in between, web server to application has a firewall and so on. while configuring backups for the databases we need to know the exact ...

The patches state that these should be installed in single user mode and a reboot must be done immediately after install. This is on all patches. I'm having trouble getting down time to do the single user mode and reboot on most of the servers I support. Is this really needed for the 2 DST ...

Hi,I'm wondering how one can restrict ldap users to certain hosts? For example user A have access to host X and Y and user B have access to Y and Z. Can this be configured within the ldap or is it done at host level?Regards,/Reyg

i have install windows vista (business dvd version) on my pc, and can i still install my JCreator LE 4.0 on my pc? even JDK?

I have a T200 (Sun OS 10) with 2 disks, and I need to mirror the boot disk. Both disks are on the same controller. How do I change the controller on the 2nd disk?Thanks for any info.

Is anybody having a problem installing the sign version of patch 118855-36. I have the latest certificates. I getting a error saying that the package has been alter. sorry if this in the wrong forum.

I've taken over about 20 Solaris servers most of which are running Solaris 9. I'm trying to setup printing on one of them but when I run the command: lpadmin -p comproomlj5 -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=xxx.xxx.69.250:9100 \> -o protocol=tcp -T PS -I postscript Can't find the user ...

All of a sudden some of our hosts are randomly dropping about 1 out of every 5 to 10 connection attempts via SSH. We are running Solaris 8, way down rev in kernel patches (Feb 2005 I'm embarassed to say), OpenSSH 4.2p1 using the Sunfreeware.com package.What happens is shortly after forking off ...

Hello,I am a recent college graduate and one of the tasks given to me was to install and maintain mysql on our development server. Not knowing much of anything about the filesystem setup of our development machine, I followed the directions for installing mysql which said to install it into the ...

Dear All,I am trying to change one NIS client hostname but keep its IP unchanged. What I did is changing the hostname in the hosts file of NIS server and changing the hsotname on the client too. With 'ping' command, the new hostname of the client can be recognized only within the domain, but ...

Hi Folks,trying to create filesystems on a couple of 72Gb scsi disks. partitioning of disks goes fine using 'format'. When I try and use newfs I get the error message ' ERROR DETERMINING ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCK LOCATIONS' Tried using fsck to allocate another superblock, but this spouts out a ...

New T2000, Solaris 11/06, with 4 internal disks 0-4.Ships with default cache: read=enabled, write=disabled for all 4.(shown with format -e)Planning on:hardware mirroring OS disk (0 -> 1)hardware mirroring 2nd set (2 -> 3)1) Is it wise/safe to turn on write cache for OS mirrored ...

Hi All,I have a question about how /etc/hosts & DNS work on a solaris 9 box. When I have entries in /etc/hosts that are not in DNS and I run say nslookup the utility will not find the ip. Put if I ping the entry in /etc/hosts it will find it. Basically I have a box with default sendmail and ...

Hi,I'm running tomcat on Solaris 10 and (assumingly) because of higher traffic on our website, the tomcat process is taking all the CPU. How can i figure out what's causing the high CPU within my tomcat process, is there any way to extract this info, like perhaps narrowing down which ...

A few patch questions:Is there a way to tell with the showrev/patchadd displays if a patch is specificaly a kernel patch? Is there a numbering scheme cheat sheet anywhere that gives some meaning to the patch numbering? This is for solaris 10Does a kernel patch upgrade always show up in the rev ...

I have set-up ALOM on several of our V210 with no problem. However on one V240 I am having problems. ALOM seems to work OK except that I cannot get the Solaris login prompt. If I try either console or console -f command I juetst get the message to use #. to return SC but no login prompt for ...

I would like to add a new user to a system using script, including building thehome directory of the user, copying its default config data, etc.For a standard Unix/Linux system, not Mac OS X.There is something wrong with the script below. When I run it, it gives some errors. I am not good in ...

Hi, I am not in a position to figure out, is it an issue with my server or my network. I run spray and find packet loss...what should I suspect?In one way, the packet loss is 0%, while the other way, there is 90% loss. Both machines are located in two different buildings.here is the ...

After recent patch updates via Update Manager, showrev -p results in a segmentation fault. As a result (presumed), cannot run Update Manager or smpatch. Any ideas on how to recover?

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Hello!Hope to get any good recommendations that can help me find the reason of unexpected shutdown to standby mode of a web server on Solaris 10 on X4100 Opteron hardware.The following analysis was performed. - User login and commands history checked. - /var/adm/messages* checked - ...

the external monitor shows only one resolution: 640x480 at 4-bit color ,how to do? hardware:sunblade 2500sofware: solaris 10sunpci card: v3.2.2 , windows sp2/windows 2003 sp1 installed.help me plz.

Hi,I have Solaris 10 running on T2000. I guess System Controller is not configured during the first run.The install document that I found describes the procedure to configure it duringthe first run which we have already missed. Is there any way we can do it now?Thanks for the ...

What is Sun doing about the Solaris 10 telnet authentication bypass vulnerability whichwas mentioned here: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872

I haven't been able to find any information on the Sun website about this for Solaris 8. I understand that at one time there was a 'lite' version that was available at no charge?I just want to enable iptables-like behavior for Solaris, not run a router or firewall, so I can run a suite of ...

Hello experts. I've created my own package file using the procedure outlined in www.solarisfreeware.com. for those of un-aware of this procedure, it basically utilizes pkgproto, pkgtrans etc..... However, im now attempting to install this particular package un-interactively via Jumpstart but ...

Hi, i would like to know if it's possible to assign 2 IP to a NIC with Solaris 8?I looked high and low and can't find the answer to my question...Please can someone help me?If you guys got any good website (English / French) that explain how to do that it would be really ...

Just getting a feel what other organizations out there do with disk scrubbing...- What do you use to scrub your decommissioned disks? format/analyze commands? dd? 3rd party tools?- Do you do anything different between internal disks, disks in an array or SAN attached storage?- How many times do ...

I installed the DST patch just released 109809-06, and it's various dependency patches. When I reboot and run zdump, I still get the April and October dates for DST in 2007.I would have expected to see the March and November dates as I do on my HPUX machines and Linux boxes.I have moved aside ...

Hi All,We are going to update patches in our SUN server and i got the list from SUN Solution center. I have to install around 72 patches. So I am planning to create some scripts for this .can anybody help me in this? is there is any option to suppress reboot in patch ...

I need to install patch 113225-07 and 112874-37 on my V880 with Solaris 9. I have downloaded them to my Windows PC and they are .zip files. What is the correct way of installing them on the server?I'm a sys admin but work mostly in the IBM AIX world.

Having some trouble installing this patch. Have not found anything that helps. Here is what I am getting:Utility used to install the update failed with exit code 5.Checking installed patches...Executing prepatch script...Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...Patch ...