<p>Hi,</p><p>In Solaris 5.8 Sparc which OS command to use to list all process with the amount of Physical Memory they are using ?</p><p>Thanks</p>

Hi,all,I found one of the filesystem is 100% full, which existed one of Oracle temporary file of temp tablespace, and I followed the database operation and deleted the temp file from the filesystem.However, it didn't release the space when I used 'df -k' to show the system space!!! But I know it ...

hi there,i am so new to system administration. using ufsdump command, what file shud i backup? what is the proper command to use?please help and advise.thanks.

Hi all,i had this problem a couple of times with sun blades 100/150/200.The HD crashes, i by a new one, connect, power on, [Stop]+[A]ok boot cdrom... ... ...Can't open boot deviceok show-disks...(make my selection)ok nvalias cdrom2 [Control+y]@1,0:fok nvstoreok boot cdrom2...Can't open boot ...

Hi all,I hava w WD HD which woke up ill.I did:[Stop]+[A]boot -sfsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 ... ... ...WARNING: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0 (dad0):Uncorrectable data Error: Block ... ... ...... Command: 0xc8 Error: 0x40 Status: 0x51 ... ......BAD MODE 0170000 I=2263BAD MODE: MAKE IT A FILE? ...# fsck ...

I can't download the Solaris 9 patch cluster without a subscription? Am I missing something?Because if I have to pay to patch now, this could be the final step that'll finally get my company to completely abandon Sun.

Hi thereI have problem on archiving some Oracle files.Total folder is little over 25G, and when I try to archive this folder onto a tape (40G capacity), after about 2/3 of files, I get EOF message.I have typed next command:cd /index/Backuptar cvf /dev/rmt/0 .and messages about archiving in ...

Hello,we've recently updated our Support-Sun to Solaris 10. Due to a mistake the machine was installed with End User Support, but Developer Support was requested. Since we are not able to reinstall the machine (Of course it's a productive system) we are looking for a solution to modify the ...

Hello,I am using solaris 10 and when i create new user I have to pass password that must start with number e.g 12solaris , it is not accepting solaris12 as password as displaying password must be alphanumeric.how can I cure this problemMessage was edited by: thbaig

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 ...

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.

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: ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello,finding a certain library for Solaris applications seems to me not straightforward.For example: ldd emacslibtiff.so.3 => (file not found)libjpeg.so.62 => (file not found)libpng.so.3 => (file not found)The problem is that i dont see the conection of these libraries to their patch ...

hi all,after i made a backup for the system, I couldn't login to multiuser mode.means that the welcome login windows not appear so no user name can access no passwd,only single user mode work.i find that system run well, and when i Take its environment from other PC, I found that it work 100% ...

Hi Folks,IDE Disk0 ( seagate ST320420A) on Sun ultra 5 is downed.Error Message1) Bios level ; boot disk0; short disk read; The file just loaded does not appear to be executable2) When boot cdrom -sw# fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Warning: uncorrectable data error: block 1a00980disk not responding to ...

Installing the NetConnect 3.2.4 on a t1000 with Solaris 10uname -a "SunOS sunlight 5.10 Generic_125100-04 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000"I look to check that the srs services are running, and all there appears to be is a hung srsxfer that never completes.root@sunlight # ps -ef | grep srsroot ...

Hi thereThis is totaly newbi question, so when you stop laughing find some time and answer.I am interested in log filesWhere can I find them.Primary, I have problem with one cluster which has Solaris 8 on it, and has to be shutdown for UPS maintenance.Since it has been known for having problems ...

Hi there, I just took over a really old netra box that is still in use. I have these intructions that tell me to log on and do the following$at 2300>sh backupfile<CONTROL> DThe file called backupfile is just a shell script. It looks like thistar cvbf 96 /dev/rmt/0 /export /usr2 /bin ...

Hello,I need help in setting ulimit -c (for coredump size to unlimited). For this I have in /etc/profile the following...........case "$0" in-ksh | -sh )ulimit -c unlimitedulimit -H -c unlimited;;-csh | -tcsh )unlimit coredumpsize;;esac--But when I login and check with 'ulimit -a' its showing ...

This is a new Solaris 10 install, my first. I installed hppi (Version E.10.34) and 40 printers, when I got to number 41, it seemed to install ok, but lp does not recognize it. I deleted a printer that had installed ok, then retried the one that had failed. lp accepted it. Then tried to ...

To recover root I booted the system in single user mode from CD ROM and the edited the /etc/shadow file ...but instead of recovering root all the users are also not able to login to the box Anybody have any idea whats going wrong here ''-Simer

need help Trying to halt the initial bootup using STOP +A and the trying ok boot cdrom -s " FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled."How can i solve this ...using Solaris installation CD Thanks,simer

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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?

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. ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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?

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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] ...

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 ...