Hi Can anybody tell me how I can find out the port number for rcp (remote copy)? Does it use rpc? Which files do I need to look at to determine this information?Regards

how to start with developing our own intaller like admintool in solaris ?

Yesterday, I installed the Java Application Platform EE5 SDK bundle on my Windows XP laptop. The bundle includes the Java System Application Server PE9.After installation, I found out that the Application Server automatically starts-up at startup/login of my laptop. Where in the Windows XP ...

We need to sync 10TB of data from one North American coast to the other.Our tenative plans are to sneakernet the data and then use some form of sync to catch up the delta.Aside from bandwidth constraints, we found that rsync quickly craps out with large numbers of files.What tools have you used ...

hi,i am trying to configure new NIC on my machine "solaris 10 x86" and i did the following:- plumb the new NIC- ifconfig e1000g1 192.168.200.202 netmask 255.255.255.248 up- edited the /etc/hosts- edited the /etc/nodename- edited the /etc/netmask i did add "192.168.200.202255.255.255.248" to ...

Hi,Newbie. What would cause a switch to a different to take so long. It looks like its taking 15 seconds are so just to switch to csh or tcsh from sh. Haven't tried to look at other shells..... Once the shell is switched to, commands run just like normal.

Hi, I woudl like to customize the default status of some of the services on solaris 10 ,like sendmail , ntp etc . II have a created a site.xml file with the below contents to test just with sendmail, but after rebooting, these settings are not effective. Though I specified sendmail to be ...

HI We installed SRSproxy on all our solaris 8 servers and getting the following error on /var/adm/messages *****************eb 18 17:57:11 hcpspcapsil1 SRS Proxy[4821]: [ID 388765 daemon.error] Could not send message from queue: ...

Hi:I recently installed a solaris 10 sparc. I selected the "Entire Solaris Software Group" option and everthing went fine. Now I realized that SUNWxcpu4 was not installed. I looked at the installation CD #2 and I could see SUNWxcpu4 directory including the pkgmap file.So my questions are:[1] ...

I am running Trusted Solaris 8 12/02 x86I have installed patches 125235-01 and 125237-01. It appears the spring forward time change works however the fall back time change does not seem to be losing an hour. I performed the following steps to test the time changes.Spring forward time change:1. ...

I am running Trusted Solaris 8 12/02 x86I have installed patches 125235-01 and 125237-01. It appears the spring forward time change works however the fall back time change does not seem to be losing an hour. I performed the following steps to test the time changes.Spring forward time change:1. ...

Is it possible to go into single user mode without having to enter a password ? I mean can the password be provided in the command ?either the init , shutdown or reboot commands?

I'm trying to update Solaris 8 servers that have stopped validating signed patches ( http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102639-1). I downloaded and tried to install patch 124270-01, but I got this error:Checking installed patches...One or more patch packages included ...

What would you do when a server (V490 - Solaris 9) will not shutdown? Is this normal for Solaris 9?Here's some of the log. I deleted sections where I ran who, prstat:/usr/sbin/shutdown -g0 -y -i 0Shutdown started.Fri Feb 23 20:24:55 CST 2007Changing to init state 0 - please waitBroadcast ...

i'm actually a beginner in Solaris or perhaps in Unix...this is not a homework, we're just self-studying solaris with my gruop ^_^i'm getting a lot of errors T_T, mkfs -F <fstype> c0d0?i don't know what those c0d0's stand for, are they devices?if they are, which is the device for a ...

Our system ( Sunfire 280R Solaris 8) crashed during a reboot for a cluster installation. Currently the system will only boot from CD. Can the pkgadd command be run with the system booted from CD?

Hi!regarding the microstate accounting -m and showing it per thread basis -Lwhat does this mean for my specific process rwipqs ?Does this process (PID 14779) have 48 threads?What does it mean for the many java processes?Or are these the number of threads on the right side?eg. second line ...

Hi experts,I have a A5200 that I am new to and need to install and configure. I have a server with Sol. 5.9 installed. I connected the Server to the A5200 via a fiber cable and am able to see all the disks on the SAN. Do I need to install the SUNWsan packages?If so which package(s)? I have ...

I have over a dozen files with ownership of 330:102, I have no idea how they got like this, I can't change the ownership, perms or anything, even as root. Does anyone know how these files got like this, and if so, how can I change it back to what it was suppose to be without totally creating ...

Since I'm rebooting servers like mad to prepare for the DST changes, I have been screwed a couple of times by hosts that would not reboot because the bootblocks were corrupted ("the file just loaded does not appear to be executable"). I did not install these hosts, someone else did, who knows ...

Solaris 8How can I turn on a higher debug level in /etc/syslog.conf so I get more info on errors and problems in /var/adm/messages/Tony

Solaris 10 (Sparc), Oracle 10.2.0.1 Clusterware cluvfy utilityBefore instaling Oracle CRS cluvfy utility checks system parameters. System has 30Gbytes Swap space, but Oracle CRS cluvfy utility find only 800Kb of swap and gives error message:"Swap space check failed".Does anybody found same ...

Hi friends i want to configure sendmail in solaris 10,if any body have actual configuration details please send me, thank you.

When I started working as a release engineer my boss described RE as being "the hub of the wheel," the go-between among disparate groups: program management, software development, installer engineering, marketing, QA, manufacturing. I think of <b>build engineering</b> as relating to ...

All Solaris hosts seem to be set up by default to route only 127.0.0.1 and not the rest of the 127.0.0.0/8 address space to loopback.RFC-1700 clearly states that all of 127 is to kept inside the host.It's easy to work around, "add route 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1" or similar.My router administrators ...

Hi all,I would like to create a toor account in Solaris,so that I do not need to use root for installingprograms or other tasks, once the root accountis by default very limited in $PATH $MANPATH,hast no nice aliases etc.Can anyone tell me the steps for doing ...

Hi, I am using jumpstart ( jass 4.2 ) to install Solaris 10 and observed that after the installation system forcing the password to be changed. This way it becomes interactive and solving my unattended installation purpose.I have added the finish script to assign the root password and log shows ...

Hi every bodi'm actually a beginner in Solaris , I am trying to be familier with sun solaris enviroment as administrator for the system. Any suggestion for reading for the first step for this new world ?Thanks

Hi to All, I'm trying to find a command to see de expiration date of a a user account.In Linux I have the command chage -l user, and i can see the password expiration date and the account expiration date, any command in solaris to see it?Thanks to all!

I have "inherited" some Sunfire V210 and Netra 105 servers without much documentation. 2 of them (a V210 and a Netra 105) do not reboot after I have applied the DST patches. I got the connection to ALOM going, but do not know the password for the admin or any other user. Is there a way to reset ...

guys i have an issue with sendmail, which is working fine but i have an old mail that seems to be logging in syslog and delaying for 5 days at a time. the queue's seem to be empty and there is no dead letter in /var/tmp but the syslog contains a lot of errors about this.has anyone got any ...

Hi All;Q1. How can I reinstall all fonts from net ?Q2. How can I update all fonts from the net ? Note : I do Not have Solaris 9 sparc CDs.Thanks++;Message was edited by: ybanafa

on a sun fire 240 with 4 drivers (68 GB) running solaris 9. i am able to create slices (using format cmd) of 50/40/.. sizes. After i run newfs ( create file system) and mount, the effective space after mounting is only 30 GB ( from df -k command).please let me know if we have any restrictions? ...

HelloI just got a Sun Ultra 10 from a friend of mine ( it was free) And i am trying to load solaris on it.Since it takes IDE drives, i have tried many different IDE CD-ROM's and DVD-ROMs and i have had no luck. Everytime i try to install solaris (solaris 9 CD Download or Solaris 10 Cd download ...

I am getting an error trying to run Adobereader 7.0.9 on Sun Solaris. This is a newly installed program. The error I received was:"ld.so.1: /opt/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/sparcsolaris/bin/acroread: fatal: libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory"I googled it and came up ...

Hi all,please tell me how to find bootable hard disk from OBP.Like in HP-UX from PDC we can find hard disk havng ISL by ISL>sea islRegardsVimal George

I am looking for something like a service pack for solaris 9.0, I am some what new to solaris having been working with HP UX mostly, I just would like to find some to collect and install in one process all patches required for my 9.0 systems? Any help would be very appreciated

Could anyone point me out how to setup a startup script at run level 3 or 2 in solaris 10 ?Any previous solaris such as 9, 8, I just write a script and put in /etc/init.d/, then link it to run level 3 or 2. But in solaris 10 is different now.I could not find any in the ...

Hi All,We have a NFS share "/exprot/home/test1" accessed by users.But, we also want to share the parent directory "/export/home" but it gives an error "sub-directory alreadty shared". As we require both the shares seperately, is there anyway to share both.Thanks in ...

I have - solaris 10 on server v240, HBA dual of Qlogic(qlc model).I can see one LUN within 2 deffrent path(2 regular device files).I enabled the stms(stmsboot -e) and now I can see only one device file(stms device file).3 questions:--How can I check the stms(to see that stms working ok)?How can ...

Hello;I have Solaris 8 on my hard disk. I was trying to create a news partition table. When I try to modify my current partition table. It would say " Can not modify disk partition while it has mounted partitions." I would like to know how to create, name and label a new partition without ...

I have a Solaris 8 system acting as a NIS slave. My /etc/nsswitch.conf file specifiespasswd: files nisand in general users can login successfully. However, I have a few users who use X-terminals booted off the Solaris box and these people are unable to login unless they have entries in the ...

I've never had any issues with Volume Manager on our E4500 running Solaris 2.6 until I had to apply this DST patch last week. When I try to run the GUI for Volume Manager I am getting the following errors:java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException: current thread not ownerat ...

When running a sar I get a list of devices getting heavily accessed but it lists them as ssd's ....such as ssd44, ssd48 etc etc.....well I want to find their equivelant controller number etc so I can find out what file systems are being hit. What is the easiest way to get this

We are running Trusted Solaris 8 x86 HW 12/02 and are having trouble with one of our applications starting. The application is called in dtprofile to be started upon login and randomly it fails to open. We receive the errors listed below in /var/adm/messages. It seems completely random as I ...

Hi,i have a machine having an ip address as 10.1.0.41, on that machine i have a container with an ip of 10.1.0.42.I now want to change both the ip's to 10.9.9.2 of the machine and container to 10.9.9.4.How do i go about doing it.TIAamit

I'd like to detach one of SCSI tape drive which connected to host1 originally, and attach it to host2. Do I need to execute any command to release it from host1, or just pull the SCSI cable out from host1?Thanks.

Folks,I need an opinion on what you use to redirect data sources and create space for users: loopback filesystems or symbolic links. I am new to loopback filsystems (lofs) - are there any drawbacks to using them? I have always used symlinks for redirects and to move data off of filesystems due ...

Hi all,I'm a freelance sun/solaris system administrator. Can anyone tell me the easiest/cheapest/recommended way for me to get access the restricted stuff on sunsolve?I've been doing solaris for years, and it seems to be getting harder and harder to access the information I need to do my job ...

Some time ago I used Live Upgrade to update a Solaris 9 4/04 V490 to Solaris 10 6/06. The internal disks (2 146GB) are mirrored using SVM. I used a couple of extra slices for the upgrade (/ & /var). I need to setup a new filesystem for an Oracle grid control install. I need to to reallocate ...