Server:Aquarius 312 - 2CPU x 3GHzSolaris 9 u7top show:CPU states: 70% idle 0% user 30% kernel 0% iowait 0% swapWhat loading a kernel? How I want viewing that?

How does this differ from SPARC licensing through SPARC international?

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to setup tftpd on a Solaris 9 server to allow creation of files?If so, how?Thanks,Chris

Hi Can you please help on my issue,we have sol 8,on our prod boxes when the servers are rebooting all the swap file systems are mounting,can you pl suggest any thing on this.ThanksMadhuSree

Hello everyone,We all know that there a file called .bash_history file in every users' directory which contains commands the user has executed in the shell.It does not contain the date and time. I want that the command is entered in this file with date and time like the example shown ...

Last week in installed a new server from Solaris 9/04 media with all the companion software and compiled some more of my favorite apps.This server is mirrored using disksuite as are all of my servers. I tried to create a flash archive using flarcreate, so that I could easily bring up my new ...

Hello there,I am running Solaris 8 on SUN E450 servers.I have a case where I need to be backing up some data (about 5GB) on daily basis onto a a tape. My tapes are 40GB Tape in size.Now if I am to be using one tape everyday, I thought it could rather too much considering that I would only be ...

I am having a printing problem after a fresh Solaris 10 install. I installed a printer using lpadmin and everything looked fine until I tried to print to it. # lpstat -a _default accepting requests since Thu Jan 05 08:32:58 2006EA35 accepting requests since Thu Jan 05 08:32:58 2006# cat ...

I have a Solaris 10 system installed on the following systemuname -aSunOS lab135881 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000prtconfSystem Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4uMemory size: 2048 MegabytesSystem Peripherals (Software Nodes):SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000....On this machine I have 40 ...

I'm new to Unix admin, In my work place I need to configure a local printer to Unix server. I was told that when they had win98, they accessed some application in Unix through emulation software and the local printer is worked. Now they got a W2K PC and can able to access the application and ...

Is it considered a Best Practice to allow scripts (for the point in question, it is a cfengine "rule") to constantly check (about every 3 min.) a third party server (Blastwave) for updated software and to download and install updates without any human interaction?Solaris Patch Management: ...

Hi, brand new to solaris on my x86. Someone changed my telnet welcome message (a freind) and won't tell me how they did it, so when I telnet to my machine or su from an xterm window, I get "Shane was here!"I have searched thru the shell resource files, the .logins.. I think I am not looking at ...

I'm trying to dispel what I think is a management misconception, and would appreciate any help in pointing me to any links that may discuss this.Is there any magical reason why it is "bad" to run a server at a sustained cpu load above a certain percentage. Some would make the claim that if a ...

Does anyone use logsurfer on Solaris that would mind posting their config file? I would like to start using the software but I would rather not start at ground zero creating a file.Thanks

Hi,I would like to know if is there any improvement, software or bypass to get working login names that exceed 8 characters.This is because we are using Windows login names (more than eight characters), Single Sign On, and among others, Rational Clearcase can't stand with this ...

hi,i am using enterprise 220R.first day it was running ok. when i boot it , it stops at the Ok and i can change boot device and whatever. so there was a problem to read from the cdrom.i wrote:Ok boot cdrom "didnt work" then i tried Ok boot "the path of the cdrom" "it worked"then when i am ...

Hi Guys, I have a solaris 8 rsync server. But I don't want people to rsh or telnet into this box. Is there any way to do this?Thanks in advance, Tsang

Hi All,How to enable pam in solaris 8. In my system /etc/pam.conf file is available and all modules which are specified in the file are also available at /usr/lib/security directory. Please let me know how to stop/start/enable ?Do I need to install anything else ? OS is Solaris 8 12/02 and ...

Hi, I'm new to the Sun world, and need to do a bare-metal recovery of a RaQ4 server. When I login I get an assertion failure in the dynamic linker, so we can't even login anymore due to a bad kernel that was installed long ago. Can anyone provide me with a roadmap? Can I rawwrite the iso ...

hello all.i am trying to get my solaris 10 system to do smtp authenticationthe sendmail shipped with solaris 10 unfortunately is not compiled with SASL. this is a shame, especially since sals v2 libraries _are_ shipped with solaris 10so - i downloaded & compiled my own sendmail 8.13.5, ...

do i really need to change my SCC card if i want to change the hostid of a netra 240 ?or is there another possibilityregards & thanxR.

My story is sad (but stupid). I am trying to hardena Sun-Fire V240 in prep for a security accreditationnext week. I just finished writing the script I planned to run on the other boxes. The government security manual wants me to use RBAC; its been a long time since I studiedRBAC. But I followed ...

In previous versions of Solaris, all I needed to do was run sendmail with MODE="" (/etc/default/sendmail). In Solaris 10, if I do that no mail is sent. How can I still send email while not listening for incoming?Thanks in advance!

Hi,I heard that there is a motto in system administration that not to update the patches unless it brokes. Is it true? I'm quite new to unix, could you give some links to follow the system monitoring.Thank you.

Hi, Can I know how did all you you mange the file wtmpx? My Solaris 8 server having this file and it is now grow till 1.5GB. I would like to know why I cant read this file using vi and cat. Can we remove this file or clean up the content of this file? Does someone has any ideas? ...

Hello.I have a problem with identification of process, which open pipe withother one. for exaple i run# ./a | tee > /tmp/aand i see# ls -al /proc/<pid_of_tee>/fd/dr-x2 antonyother8208 Feb 26 16:21 .dr-x--x--x5 antonyother864 Feb 26 16:21 ..p0 antonyother 0 Feb 26 16:34 0--w-1 ...

At four months I am the newest Member of my organization's SysAdmin group. One of my earliest projects here was to update a configuration spreadsheet of all our servers. In the course of doing so I found that most systems had many unused disks in them; powered on, no mounted partitions, not ...

HiDoes anyone know how to check the no: of CPU modules present in SUN SERVER V880 running Solaris 8 ? One of the faulty CPU module is taken out from the server, now I want to check the CPU no:'s and status. Guide me .......Thanking you in advance

Hi guys, I need to perform a reinstall on my solaris 8 system. All home user data (/home) is on an NFS server. My question is: Is there any system-wide directory (other than /home) that contain user data and should be saved? I'm thinking of user datas like crontab, calendar etc. Thanks! ...

Dear,how can we findout which is current boot disk from at prompt is there any command to findout the samethankssiva

Hello everybody,What we have:Solaris 9 machines with one network interface configured on each. OBP variable local-mac-address is different on different machines. Each server have few unused NIC's.Is it possible to dynamically configure IPMP without disrupting IP traffic? Or may be there is ...

I wanted to how to configure DNS in solaris with detailed document

Hi,I have a shell script which is to perform a check if particular type of files exists in a directory. The files come in the form ...

hi all,i need help on certain questions. Can anybody help.1) What is hard link and soft link ? what is the difference between them? 2) What is the difference between mkfs and newfs? 3) Given a Hard disk describe all the steps you will take to mount it to a directory named Ravi, starting from ...

Currently, I have two mount points which mount to the same hard drive at start up as follows:mount -F /.../draw/drawmount -F /.../scan/scanDraw slice stored drawings which have "drafter"(owner) and "draftergr"(group) in file names.Scan slice stored drawings which have "nobody" (owner) and ...

Hi sysops,with older OS version I used rc script to set NIC speed and duplex.Since rc script are now deprecated with Solaris 10, is there some new magic to be learnt with svccfg.Or is there some other tool to use to set permanent NIC config change.cheers,georgem ...

I was able to find out the patch which is used to install DBX debugger tool, it is 117844-01 through 117844-04(latest). I tried installing all the 4 versions of the same patch, but was not successful.All the time it gave me the following error, It even doesn't have any required patches or ...

I need a DR backup for our NetBackup server. The server is a V440 running Solaris 9. It has four 73 GB internal drives setup as two mirrored pairs. There is some space on our SAN (6130) also. NBU uses a Dell PowerValt containing 6 LTO2 tape drvies. The V440 has a DVD drive. I have a V490 with 2 ...

There probably a better place for this question but Sys Admin Best Practices is the only forum that I've tried where "Watch List" seems to work, so:What's the deal with the Duke Dollars? Are they "real"? Are they of value? Thankshave a good weekend,Glen ...

Hope you can help !I'm familiar with HP-UX in which a sys admin facility called HP-SD (Software Distributor) allows the user to 'package' up all software components of a system (O/S + Drivers + patches + OEM Apps etc) and load these up onto a 'build server' as a series of descrete ...

Does it cause packets to get dropped or lost?

Q: How can I add a filesystem to an existing zone?3. Export the device associated with the disk partition to the non-global zone, create the filesystem in the non-global zone and mount it (has potential security issues)To my understanding, the security issue is to associate SCSI devices to the ...

I was wondering if there is a PAM for Solaris 8 available from SUN that will allow me to control password re-use? Thanks,Scott

I've set up basic public key sharing, with no passphrases, to test automated ssh logins to remote servers. That works fine. When I login, the commands I use are recorded in my .sh_history file. However, when I perform the ssh login with the commands bound to ssh [eg. ssh host1 ls /dev ] the ...

I need to somehow turn on (and off) logging all standard input/output of a shell script from within itself into a file whenever the script executes.I have considered using script command, but it launches a new shell and goes out of my script, until I manually enter exit command.Any ideas how to ...

Hallo all,I face the problem having a filesystem (containing oracle redologs) which sometime grow too fast to 100%.I need a script which calculates the available Space and compares this with the last Minutes or hours of growing and extrapolite the time to reach 100%. If the time is lower than a ...

Where is the best place to set the tcp_keepalive_interval so that when the system reboots it set again.Can it be set in /etc/system? Should I add another startup script?Should I modify an existing startup script? What is the best practice on setting network parameters? Anyone have any thoughts? ...

Does anyone know of a tool to mine a Solaris audit file(s)? I know about the commands auditreduce and praudit. I was interested in more of integrated tool/gui to look through the files.

I can rsh as root from one system to another without issue. Filesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/proc 0000%/proc/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0101554236316 9182944%//dev/dsk/c0t0d0s61114830 716309 34278068%/usrfd 0000%/dev/fd/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s110155427071 9475391%/var/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s71294529121 ...

Hello all,I am using Solaris x86 version. I am getting below error message while installating install check2.0. #sh installinstall: ./.install/install_common: cannot executePlease help me.ThanksSabeer