Recently this Sun server is getting weird with NFS mounting.It (A) couldn't mount one server (B), but A can mount another server (C). And server D can mount well on server B.A just can't mount a certain server B, no matter what I did. It was running fine, and all the sudden, it stop working.A ...

I have a Solaris 9 (122300-02) server using openldap 2.2.5. It's in a group of 5 servers and is the only one experiencing the problem. Simply put, sometimes you can connect, sometimes you can't. Also, doing an ls -l on user files returns usernames sometimes, uid's other times. Sudo is also ...

Hi AllHow i can find out whether the process is running in root or from some other directory ?For example : if i'm starting one process from the /var directory then how i can see that particular process i running from /var directory.Thanks in advance

hihow to make quota on solaris 10?Thanks

HiI want to mirror a boot disk on Solaris 9 Sparc. All slices have file systems on them. Do I need to reformat the disk to make slices available or is there another way? I read some where about reclaiming space from swap but I'm not sure how this creates another slice unless they meant to take ...

Hi,I have a sunfire v120 which I have setup to have one nic using 192.168.51.5 and the the other to be 192.168.151.5. The first nic is on a 100Mb switch and the other is connected to a 1Gb switch.They are currently running atInterfaceSpeedDuplex--eri0100 Mbit/shalferi1100 Mbit/sfullI have ...

Hi, I have 9 SUN v240 with which i connected the same DAT drive HP 72GB DDS DAT (PART NUMBER C7439). In six servers did devfsadm and it registered the DAT. It worked fine but in three of the SUN v240, this command doesnt seem to do anything. /dev/rmt is not created. I cannot restart the server ...

Distinguished Colleagues,I basically need a way to restrict a group of users' logins so thatthey can't get to the shell when they log in. I only want them to run oneapp instead. Previously, this was achieved by putting a while-loop in.profile that would run one of a couple allowed programs ...

Dear All,Pls explain to me in details 1. what you mean by the total virtual memory size of the process ?2. resident set size of the process?3. difference between cpu state and run state ?these all the outputs of prstat commandSince iam new to solaris ,I require your help in detail Thanks in ...

Folk'es,I'm running CDE on Solaris 9 on an Ultra 60. My applications now have the problem of allocating the correct colours.How/where can I change the colour depth so that they work again?It worked fine while i was running Solaris 8 on the ...

I'd be interested to hear and share experience with tools used to automate Build & Release Engineering tasks. Furthermore, very interesting to hear about tools for automation of Configuration & Change Management tasks. For example, my team used INF (Integration Notice Facility) - tools ...

Any body has a procedure to install samba on Sun Sparc system?

Hi all Build Engineers,what systems do you use for automating builds - do you use your own tools, or some opensource project?If it is something public, which one it is, and what were the reasons to chose it?We are thinking about using the Hudson system ( http://hudson.dev.java.net/) for our ...

Hello All,Can anybody recommend some good, fairly current Solaris administration books (besides SunDocs)?Two that I'm considering are Solaris OE Boot Camp and Solaris Solutions for System Administrators. Any comments on these would be appreciated.Lastly, it seems there is a lack of variety for ...

Dear All , I had setup open solaris b55 with trusted extension ,inside box is sun directory server , i am also setup as ldap client .But i had problem after rebooted the machine , when i am type svcs -a | grep client , the status ldap client going to maintenance mode ,here log from dmesg :Mar ...

Hi all expert out there,I had a HDD failure on v440, and the customer want to replace the HDD online without shutdown the server, I use the Solaris command below to unconfigure the disk :-"#cfgadm -c unconfigure c3::dsk/c3t1d0" The command executed with no error and then I also use the command ...

Hi there,does anyone know if there's an "official" bug in ifconfig's subcommand addif?Adding logical interfaces to a running physical interface manually works without problems. But when I try to configurate a persistent one with the corresponding file hostname.nicdrv the settings (netmask, ...

Hi people anybody with config procedures for setting up qmail as the MTA in Solaris 10.Thanks all

I am advised that a recent patch was added prevent one user seeing the environment variables in force in processes running as other users.As an unfortunate side effect, users can now only see the first 80 characters of command line for processes owned by other users.Naturally root still sees ...

HelloIn a desktop, standalone, not networked in a LAN, that does not even have a peer-to-peer computer in the local environment, but connected to the Internet for Browsing (The desktop is not a web server ) , e-mail and chat, what are the ports that are absolutely needed to be kept open ?How ...

Hello everybodyI tried to upgrade Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 with installation disk, after installation gather information I pressed install. And installation status is failed with error:Error: The specified root and/or boot was not found or not upgradablePfinstall failed. Exist ...

Hi All,How can I add few existing groups into a group?eg. Currently, I have - projgrp1 for proj1 with members proj1usr1, proj1usr2, proj1usr3..proj1usr10- projgrp2 for proj2 with members proj2usr1, proj2usr2- projgrp3 for proj3 wiht members proj3usr1, proj3usr3Now, I would like to give access ...

Hi,I am using the command cp -p file1 file2 where file2 is being written to a nfs mounted zfs partition. But the commands gives an error while executing.cp: preserving permissions for `./ncftp-3.1.9.tar': Invalid argumentThe same works fine when the nfs partition mounted is UFS.So the issue is ...

I have tried downloading the latest Solaris 10 patch cluster and I believe it only installed just a very few patches. I am trying to get all the latest patches installing on my Solaris 10 Sun Blade 100 including all the DST patches. I am seeing differences in what is reported in the showrev and ...

We're trying to convert our Oracle platform from SPARC boxes to the Sun AMD boxes. The current showstopper is the inability to locate the Oracle Agent for Solaris x86. Oracle runs fine. The basic Legato client works fine. Just can't find the Oracle Agent for x86.Legato/EMC won't respond to ...

A new v445 server displays the console message;DHCP lease was terminated or never established. IP address no longer valid.I never enabled/setup DHCP. I'm connected to the net through a DNS server. how do I turn off this DHCP?

I recently interviewed a candidate for a build engineering position. I haven't done that much interviewing, and want to know what people think are important questions. Do you focus on technical skills (if so, how)? Are strong technical types who like to hole up in their bunkers good ...

Hi how do i configure Apache on Solaris 10 OS,

HiI wrote a new smf service and added it to the repository.When running with "stop" (when the system goes down) it sends an alert to another machine.My question is :How can I schedule that service to run just before network services go down?another question, how can I schedule another service ...

Hi all,I have a network card in my sun blade withthe device name eri0 working perfectly. I wanted totest then my second NIC, which has name eri0, and the I just typed:mv /etc/hostname.eri0 /etc/hostname.hme0 && rebootI conected the ethernet cable to the second NICand tried ping, ...

I have to find the no. of cores in the processor, like is it a single core or dual core processor, psrinfo does not give this info. Is there any other command that will give this information?Thanks

In our SunFire V240 /var/adm/messages is not being written to.What should have been missed here?

I'm trying to get an alternative boot environment created on Solaris 10,11/06, and am having problems with the "merged" keyword.I want to create a new BE on c0t0d0s5, and merge / and /usr onto it.Here's what I think will do that:# lucreate -n be2 -c be1 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5:ufs -m ...

Hi,I had enable quotas on one filesystem. After some time found that one of the user had exceeded the quota and even the Lite left was alos expired. When user came reporting, he is unable to even login to system, thru CDE, asked to removed the stuff from his home directory. Now if a 'du -sk ' ...

Hello everyone. I'm new to Solaris and would love to use it as the OS on a storage server because of zfs however I'm wondering about something. Lets say I have 6 hard drives on the server. 5 of them are set up using zfs and raidz and the Solaris OS is on the 6th drive. If the drive with ...

I have a Solaris 8 install that I can't get to work. I have a Sollaris 8 flash archive that I made from a fully patched Solaris 8 server. Hardware is 280R with 4 GB RAM. I go through the normal install steps. After the networking, I'm prompted for what kind of install. I select the flash ...

I have a Netra 240 with Sol 10; kernel patch 118558-38. The system is connected to a fabric and has Symmetric disks already assigned and in use. We are using native Sol 10 drivers, cards are sun branded Emulex. I added another disk from the Sym yesterday. The new disk does not show up in ...

Yesterday a bunch of syslog entries showed up, out of nowhere, no one was logged in, no cron jobs running at that time, the system was not rebooted:Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2: ddi_intr_get_supported_types() returned: 1Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 ...

System is 280R, Solaris 9.Single serial port.It seems ttya is hung. Can I remotely (no admintool) switch output to port B without rebooting?any help is greatly appreciated.Mike

Hi all,i do not see yet clearly the difference between the many/etc/rc?.d directories. I know they are read by their respective /sbin/rc?But if i type:ls /etc/rc*/*ssh*i will get:rc0.d/K03sshd* rc1.d/K03sshd* rc2.d/K03sshd* rc3.d/S89sshd* rcS.d/K03sshd*Which should i stop/start manually if i ...

Hey,I would like to know where I can find some good documentation for installing a Sun LDAP server on Solaris 10. Can anybody point me in the right direction ?Ideally this directory server would sync it's info with the existing Windows 2003 AD server, any ideas on how to go about this ?Many ...

HI There,I am trying to apply the flash update #106121-18 to an Ultra 1 Enterprise, which is currently at OBP version 3.25.0. When i run the flash update, i get the message:**ERROR - There were no binary modules found. You may have loaded the wrong flash update files for this system, which has ...

Hi everybody,i wanted to increase the size of my / partition in solaris 9.The partition table had the following entries, among others:PartTagFlagCylSizeBlocks0rootwm363-16101.72GB1248/0/036054722backupwm0-2461933.92GB24620/0/0 711271807homewm1611-2468 31.70GB23008/0/0 6647112# First question: ...

I'm trying to upgrade SUNWexplo on all our servers. I've upgraded some of them including on Solaris 9 and 10, and they seem to work OK, but one server hangs (for hours if I let it.) This server has Solaris 10, but no zones are created. What I did was:sudo pkgrm SUNWexplo SUNWexplu (versions ...

Hi,Blade2500 with Solaris8 had a bad network connectionso we did on the ok prompt test netafter that, at startup I get disabled netI don't know how to enable it.please help me

Hi,Correct me if I'm wrong that rstatd uses port number randomly evey time it started? Can it be configured to use a fixed port number?Thanks in advance.

Hi,I was asked to disable some startup scripts in Solaris 8 by our security personnel. Before I proceed, I would like to know what the scripts for. Where can I find the information of the startup scripts?Thanks in advance.

Hello.I've got the LDAP client from Sun installed and going on a Solaris 10 machine. Now I'd like to "tune" it a bit... Server is a OpenLDAP server.One thing I'd like to be able to do, is that I'd like to be able to restrict to which machines a user can login to. With the PADL.com LDAP ...

Hi I have two different /usr/local for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9. How can I set the autofs to mount the related /usr/local based on its own OS ?Many thanks.

I would like to define an account for sftp use only. I am trying to define the account using /sbin/noshell as the shell. But useradd fails with messge:UX: useradd: ERROR: /sbin/noshell is not a valid shell. Choose another.I created /sbin/noshell according to section 8.2 Assign noshell for ...