Hi,I'm a sysadmin only when absolutely necessary.This is one of those times...Aliases in my /etc/aliases file have stopped working.No idea why.What does the aliases infrastructure need to work?I've restarted sendmail, hoping that would work - but no luck.Is there a checklist for identifying ...

Hello - I come from hpux background - we usually use these steps to troubleshoot a disk: iocan -fnC disk (check for no hardware), run vgdisplays to check for stale mirrors, run dd against the disk to see if it responds. Does anyone have a similar set of steps that can be run on solaris to ...

I'm trying to add some software to a Solaris machine and am finding it a little frustrating.I would like to add the package that contains PKCS #11 libraries and headers so I can use some of these functions to do some encryption.There is some documentation for this here: ...

Hello - I have an UltraAX-i2 running Solaris 9. My customer currently has two disks in a mirrored setup using SVM, configured as follows:slice 0 - 11MB - state database replicasslice 1 - 1GB - swapslice 6 - 32GB - mounting / and all subdirs, no other physical mountsThey want to replace these ...

About a year ago, I successfully installed a Solaris 10 host as a DNS server, and it is humming away on a public internet IP with no firewall, and quite happy. Of course as one of the prerequisites I disabled svc:/network/rpc/bind:default. The server is quite happy with only ports 22 and 53 ...

I have a Solaris 10 host with a zero-length inetd.conf file. This should prevent inetd from offering any open ports, but it does not. Even with a zero-length inetd.conf file, inetd opens port 6112. There are numerous warnings about port 6112 out on the net, it is associated with "dtspcd". But ...

HI,I m able to login as root and it is working fine but if i login through a normal user ,it is logging and after sometime (few seconds) displays the desktop screen and comes back to the login screen.I have created a new user and tried to login the same probelm exist.Please help me out to solve ...

Hi allI'm a complete noob on solaris and net working.I was always able to connect my two computers using Network Places on solaris 10 without any configuration, on an a previous installation. I have since re-installed Solaris, my two computers are connected to a router, The other computer is ...

Hi,I cannot enable rlogin on a solaris10 boxbash-3.00# svcs -a | grep rlogindisabledMay_22svc:/network/login:rloginbash-3.00# svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rloginbash-3.00# svcs -d svc:/network/login:rloginSTATE STIMEFMRIbash-3.00#bash-3.00# svcs -l svc:/network/login:rloginfmri ...

This started happening after I accidentally disabled and reenabled "cyptosvc". Now sshd is dead, too and cryptosvc cannot be restarted, I cannot log into the system, and there's a bunch of garbage in /var/adm/messages:Anyone have any ideas?May 22 09:59:44 ns4b named[25046]: [ID 866145 ...

Hi, I am having SFV 240 and LTO3 tape device. I got IO error while taking backup on tape using tar command./var/adm/messages shown as below:May 24 10:03:57 aelr3dev scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):May 24 10:03:57 aelr3devTarget 3 reducing sync. transfer ...

Hello,I have a X4100 where I'm required to be able to login via ttya console AND on the VGA attached to the VGA-connection of the Server.At the moment this is only alternating possible, depending on how I set the value in the eeprom. (->eeprom console-ttya or ->eeprom console-text)Can ...

Hello all:How do I recover /var/ and /usr using disk suite. A snippet of metastat is below. Do I just issue a metareplace or metarecover?Thanks for your help.Ezrad30: MirrorSubmirror 0: d31State: Okay Pass: 1Read option: roundrobin (default)Write option: parallel (default)Size: 20480121 blocks ...

Hello,I'm following the document "X64 Servers Utilities Reference Manual" whichdescribes how to obtain and install the MSM-IR Utility for the integrated MegaRAID controller on Linux.According to the document, the software should be on a "Tools and Drivers"CD. I have downloaded all the software ...

Hello,i just received an already installed Solaris 9 box and did:# vi /etc/hostname.eri0# vi /etc/hosts# vi /etc/netmasks# vi /etc/defaultrouter# vi /etc/resolv.conf# touch /etc/norouter# reboot... # nslookup friendmachine-> nice output here# ping defaultrouter_IP-> nice output here# ping ...

hello,how to know the free space and used on tape drive .thanks,

Hi,How many Installation CD to install solaris 8 ?When I boot up the first cd, it asked for the second cd....Total number of cd = (boot cd x 1pc ) + (installation cd x 2pcs) ?= 3 pcs of cd ?Is this correct ?Thanks in advanceBest ...

Hello~I write a script using 'here document' syntax, for example:#!/bin/kshmailx -s "This is a test mail" davis@flora.com<<EOF`date`That's it!!EOFAnd, I put it into cron job, when I got the email, I found the date time is slower 8 hours from the system time!! That is, the system time ...

hi,im new to solarisi have downloaded 5 iso files and recorded on cd.actuall already solaris 8 is existing now what should do i doto upgrade it to solaris 10.thanks

Hi,I have a FTP server enabled on one of our machine. My requirement is the user has ftp home directory and they should not be able to do cd .. from the current/home directory. What i can do for this?Eg:when i logged in as ftpuser1 my path/home directory is /ftphome/home/ftpuser1i shoud not be ...

Hi Gurus,I am havign Netra 20 with dual processor 4 gb of ram.I am getting LOM Prompt in that but i m unable to go to OK PromptCan anybody tell me how to go to OK PromptThanksVaibhav

What has to be included in them (in ideal conditions)? Source code repository related information Files Archived Build Environment related information Tests related informationHow much details in each part? Any other information?

I am attempting to install and configure Samba v3.0.23a in a zone on a Solaris 10 (x86) server and have not had much luck.First Problem is I can not get SWAT to function:Added to /etc/inetd.confswatstream tcpnowait root/opt/samba/sbin/swatswatRan "inetconv"Ran "svcadm enable ...

Hi,The OS id Solaris8 and installed the SSHD service(OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f), it works well now, hwoever, there's 1 condition annoyed me, please kindly advice:Whenever login, it will shown the /etc/motd content twice, like:Sun Microsystems Inc.SunOS 5.8Generic ...

I got the following error message at the time of starting the s1ds server and config: (using a script to install, start and config the s1ds server)[slapd-abcd]: starting up server ...[slapd-abcd]: [04/Jun/2007:11:54:15 +051800] - ERROR<4167> - Startup -conn=-1 op=-1 msgId=-1 - System ...

Hi,I'm using 'mailx' well in Solaris 8 environment, however, it occurred problem when I want to do the same job in Solaris9 like such command:tstsvr# mailx -v testuser@mailsvr.comAnd it will show tstsvr: Name server timeout::550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for testuser@mailsvr.com::p.s. The ...

Hi,for the second time, in a different machine, i observe IP FILTER blocking the keyboard. I have a Solaris 9 on a SunBlade 100 with USB keyboard and IPFILTER 4.1.22 with pfil 2.1.12. I load the IPF rules and keep on working normally. On the next day the machine has a normal network behaviour ...

I am getting the following error while trying to execute a sudo command:ld.so.1: sudo: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/bin/sudo: symbol closefrom: referenced symbol not foundthe sudo version I use is: 1.6.8p9the SUNWcsu package that contains the ld.so.1 library is version: ...

Is there any documentation that I can get that will explain what the return codes or exist status codes that I am seeing in the /var/cron directory? For example the log file in this directory is showing:< root 23784 c Thu May 31 04:00:00 2007 rc=64I know that this is some sort of error, but ...

Hi All,Why does my sun netra 210 cannot passed the network packet over HP Procurve 3500yl Core Switch?But, no problem occured when i use Cisco Catalyst Core Switch.Is there any incompability between Sun and Hp Procurve, or i need to install new patches? Please help me.Thankyou in ...

I'm having trouble printing to a couple of new HP printers from Solaris 9 using lp. The printers require filters (the same filter). The filter is in use with other HP printers (an HP2300 setting next to my desk is one that works, and has for sometime).I used the following command to define the ...

Hi all,i have sun station with sun 9 os, the staton does not has vga card, and i want to access the sun os from windows client using GUI or open win.what is the configuration i have to do and what ia applcation i have to use in the windows to get access to the sun ...

HiIs there a best practice for migrating SAN disk from one Sun server to another.Both Servers are running Solaris 9.System disks are local disk on both servers ( LVM )SAN disk is setup using LVM , we then create many soft partitions which are used as raw devices for Sybase.thanks in ...

Hello folks,I've been trying to configure one of a node's interfaces with a fixed, globally routable, IPv6 address.The method I've used is:####################################################### Create a logical interface for e1000g0# e1000g0 has a link-local addresstouch ...

I am planning to install Sun Studio 11 on the Production Server.I have already installed Sun Studio11 on my Development machine.The Kernel Version on development machine is "SunOS 5.9 Generic 112233-08 Jun 2003" where as on Production Server it is "SunOS 5.9 Generic 112233-04 November 2002".I ...

dear all,I have a Solaris 9 machine. I configured NFS in the server. But, While shutting down the Solaris server with "shutdown -i5 -g0 -y" thesystem start to shutdown but stops at "automountd not running,retrying". I tried with stopping the NFS server. But it didn't work. If anybody has the ...

Hello,i only know IP FILTER as a free firewall for solaris 9.Is there any other?Is it worth to try to install sunscreen-3.1-lite in Solaris 9,since it is only for Solaris 8?Thanks in advance ...

sun solaris 5.5.1 don't know why, but i cant find the CD-rom drive, i check under /dev/rmt , but no thing there. how can i check that SCSI of CD rom drive, if i found it how can mount it to used it.

Hi all,if i change the sshd port in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, do i have to add/change an entry at /etc/services?What if i do not do that?Is it a good practice to comment out services i never use in /etc/services? To increase security.Thanks ...

I have an Ultra 30 running Solaris 10 with 1 GB of RAM and 500 MB of swap. The machine runs extremely slowly. When I run top I see that memory is highly utilized, but swap remains mostly untouched. For example, right now there is only 50 MB of RAM free, but 453 MB of swap. Is there a way to ...

Hello, The man pages for luupgrade reads like the below should work, but the command errors out. Does luupgade work with .jar patches? Command and ERROR is below. Along with list of patches I am trying to install.epicbuild:/u1> luupgrade -t -n vx-rootdg02 -s /u1/SunPatches 'cat ...

hi everybodyplz i just wanna know how to hide the sun one icon form the adressbar !!thx

hello,I have installed solaris 10 ,I configured networkcad and update hosts,hostname.iprb0 and netmasks files but when I restart my computer again , I have to do ifconfig again to alive my iprb0.At the start an error message is displayed "/lib/svc/method/net-physical failed with exit status ...

Hi I am a PM for a project with STC we have a number of sun servers. I want to check the warrant conditions and support status. I can provided the serial numbers. I need to know the procedure? Can any body assist ?

HelloI am trying to know the update level of my Solaris 5.8I am using this command : uanme -aroot@ws3[/]#uname -aSunOS ws3 5.8 Generic_117350-38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100That what the sunsolve web site shows mePatch Id: ...

help me please..i am currently working in company having 55 workstation and using Microsoft XP both server and workstation. As a new system administrator on my company i would like to use SOLARIS 10 as my internet server, is it a good idea? i am new in Solaris 10.. please help ...

Is there any way to securely delete individual files from the Solaris OS so that the file is removed and overwritten. I have read on using the format utility to wipe whole disks, however I do not want to lose all data on that disk. In Linux the shred command deletes individual files and then ...

I wanted to know if their are any license associated for using the Virtualization software for solaris and if so what are the costs involved. Are the license dependent on Server and do the cost vary with the number of CPU. Also can you please let us know the sun server models which support ...

Please i am trying to retreive a number of rows with two columns and am trying to add it into a vector object and ots been giving me this error message. Unchecked call to addElement(E)my code will appear below- --import java.io.*;import java.sql.*;import com.ecom.util.*;import ...

Hello all,Please I need you guys to tell me where i can get solaris experience. I have been able to do self study for a while now. But I need to get experience to ground my knowledge with actual work. I need somewhere i could put into practice what i have learnt. I dont need to paid, I just ...