<p>hi to use the sysunconfig command in solaris x86 box</p>

Hi ExpertsI have a task in our office which is something like this:one windows 2003 with active directory (PDC) i have to create 20 useraccounts in the windows active directory and i have 20 solaris sparc v210 boxes through this solaris box i have to login by using Windows active directory account ...

<p>Hi all,</p><p>Do you have any ideas on how we can add a SSH key in the authorized_keys (or known_hosts) on a NAS 5320 box ?</p><p>For maintenance purposes, no password is required while ssh a specific host to the NAS box.</p><p>Thanks in advance,</p><p>Quentin.</p>

I have a Sun450 server that has been used as a print server in the past . We are shuting down that server and I would like to have the servers that were pointing to that 450 for its printer server to instead act as print servers them self. Can I just change the /etc/printers.conf file to itself ...

<p>Can any one tell me where i will get the documentation for solaris clustering </p><p>Iam new in solaris . Please help</p><p>Thanks</p>

Hello.I was wondering how people feel about completely disabling root logins?To do so, I'm thinking I would edit /etc/passwd, and put /bin/false, or something comparable, as the default shell for root.The goal is to always require sys admins to log in as themselves, including at the console, for ...

Management has decided to create an SLA (service level agreement) for the IT department. They have given me until the end of the day to provide input (about 3 hours - my time).Where can I get some info or samples of SLA's for supporting Sun servers, Sun storage and Solaris?Thanks for any help or ...

<p>Hi </p><p>I am new in Solaris could you please tell me what is the full form of SPARC and what is the architecture</p>

<p>I need to know how to turn on controls for password creation on Unix servers with Solaris 8, 9, and 10. I want to force users to use proper guidelines when resetting and creating new passwords (i.e., enforce some password policies in addition to those found in Admintool).</p>

Hello All,I wish to generate all kinds of memory stats showing faults, like paging faults, cache misses, memory access errors, read/write errors etc. So which all commands would be helpful?Would it also be possible to find out the delay/latency in writing to a mirror disk?Any other help related to ...

Hi,how to supress printing the burst page on Solaris 9?PS: maybe its hard to find because of terminology. So trying to help searchers ...banner pagepage with job descriptionunwanted auxiliar pageAny other suggestion?

Dear all,How can i view the solaris 10 kernal parameter which were set?how can i change the default runlevel on solaris 10Can someone provide me some good link for luxadm and fiber channel admin on solarisTIA

hello,I want to allocate unallocated space to solaris partitions, but it is not visible.how can i do this?

I have a solaris8 server with a swap device (file) that is a mirrored metadevice (/dev/md/dsk/d1). swap -l reports 20484272 blocks, which = about 10GB. format says slice 1 is 9.77 GB. To me this means that the system is treating the metadevice as a mirror, which it is.Is the OS really mirroring ...

hello,I have dual os winXp and solaris 10 , I want to explore winxp partition(fat32) from solaris environment . from smc -.disks it is not showning any other disk than that of solaris.how can I accomplish this task

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,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,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 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 ...

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 ...

i deployed one aaplication in jsp on sun sloaris server and after every one cycle i.e. 24 hrs i have to restart the aaplication and found the following error:CORE4007: Internal error: Unexpected Java exception thrown (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, no description), stack: ...

What is the recommended policy for saving core files on JASS hardened and non-hardened Solaris servers? We currently have all servers configured to save all core files in /var/core, only some of the servers are security hardened. What are the security implications, if any, for allowing core ...

Due to changes on our internal network Exchange security policy which will disable POP3 I need to configure a sendmail server on one of our Solaris 8 Servers to act as a POP3 server which will receive automatically forwarded mail to two local user accounts from the central Exchange server.Then ...

Hi,Can someone help me on how to reduce the file size of wtmpx.Thank You

Hello,There's a common login account 'apadmin' which is a general user, however, I can't identify who is using 'apadmin' in the same time. I got an idea, that create login account for each user,ex,'frank', it must run 'su - apadmin' to do the work, then I can know who is using the ...

I need to install curl. I've used Blastwave for this on another server, but pkg-get gives me the "dependancy ... not up to date" error. I used "/opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c|grep -v 'Not installed'" and I know that to "upgrade all" will break cfengine.How can I prevent pkg-get from upgrading a ...

How much swap space do I need for a T2000 with 32GB of ram? At one time the rule was 2x's memory but that is an entire drive with a system with 32GB of memory! Sorry if this is a dumb question but several searches have not turned up anything solid.Thank you,BTW these will be DSEE 6.0 Directory ...

Hello,I am using Solaris 8, and when I execute 'ps -ef' command, it will show the message:ps: pswrite() error on write, wbs=-1, bs=1776, No space left on deviceps: pswrite() error on write, wbs=-1, bs=4, No space left on deviceps: pswrite() error on write, wbs=-1, bs=8, No space left on ...

Hello,i磛e got problems installing new samba version. I need to have samba as 64 bit binary as for so many open files in special cad applications. Version 3.0.21b which is included on the system cd磗 has an error while moving big files via unc from windows to samba (connection dies). Trying ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

Hi how do i configure Apache on Solaris 10 OS,

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.