At the normal shell prompt (root)I would like to set the solaris server to prompt for the current password before asking for new password, if need to change, eventhough already logged-in as root.

Hi gang,Perhaps this has been raised earlier but I could not find it in a search.I have been dealing with jumpstart for at least 10 years and spent many many hours trying to get it working well but after putting in a very large grid of HP blades using Redhat Linux and using its wonderful ...

Historically, older su programs would only allow 'su root' for members of the wheel group (gid 0). When Solaris came along, they removed that, so we all started setting the access permissions on the su(1m) binary so that only members of the root (gid 0) group could execute it.That's all well ...

Hi All ,In my Intel Solaris 10, the Xserver unable to start. It is giving the below messageThe Xserver cannot be displya on :0Kindly help us to resolve this issue.Thank you,Rajesh Kannan R.

Our auditors want to see the copyright file or a URL for the OpenSSL Sun supplies. Where is this information stored or is it on the web site somewhere.Thanks in advance for your help!

why restore takes more time compared to backup

Hi,Any idea on how to configure that on Solaris 9 system?thanks,Linda

Hi,I have a server with 2 network cards, they are configured with IPs. How can I set one of them as a primary and the other as a scondary NIC?Thanks.

Hi, I have a sun fire v890 connected to an Acer 1U console through a KVM switch (Manhattan iview).Does anyone know what key combination is equivalent to the Sun Stop-A key.I read that key combinations differ by console type and kvm type.Thanks.

I would like to know if i change the sd_io_timeout value to 180secs what will be the impact of this. I know that in HP-UX boxes emc recommend this value. Can you help me what is the best practise for this kernel parameter?

Hi,I have a Sun V890 connected to a console through a manhattan iview KVM switch and a PS2 to USB converter. (the KVM is PS2 and the V890 has USB ports only).The keyboard is working fine but the mouse is not.Anybody knows how to help?Thanks.bfarraj

How to delete my own Posts from forum permantly. Please tell me how to do. please help me..its urgent.!!!

I have a Windows remote server with NTFS file system. I want to mount one of its drives ie drive E onto a SUN machine running Solaris 5.6 SPARC edition. The network connection is good.Is it possible ? if so kindly provide the syntaxregardsMsororaji

Hi I want to backup the entire file systems of Solaris9 server to a single tape. I also want to restore it when its is required.The backup drive is connected to a remote machine and proper access is there.Which is the best way ie., ufsdump, cpio,......... to do this and what is the exact syntax ...

Hi,Which are best and active solaris forums available on net? Ashraf.

We are going to change our ISP, and obtain new external IPs. What changes shall I make on the DNS of the mail server? We use Solaris 7(SunOS 5.7). Thanks!

(NOTE: Posted in Storage forum, got no responses; that must be for users of the big storage hardware, thus wrong for this question. So re-try here:)My need: Off-line backup.My system: Sun workstation, two other workstations on LAN, none have mass-storage device. Largest-capacity device is ...

Hi,I'm using filesync on solaris 9 box to backup few critical directories. By default, It deletes files on destination if they are missing in source directory. But, i dont want this to happen. How can i use/customize filesync to avoid deletions on destination directory.TIA,

HiI would like to know whether the restoration process of Root file system in Solaris 10 is the same as that of Solaris 9Thanks in advanceAshraf.

Hi,May I know admintool (Solaris9) equivalent command in Solaris 10?Ashraf.

HiWhat is the ufsrestore option to restore a directory from a filesystem dump ?Ashraf

I am trying to mount a filesystem.When I ran the format command, I was able to see this disks:root@bkl# formatSearching for disks...donec2t45d0: configured with capacity of 68.11GBAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424> ...

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Hi,The ps -ef command truncates the command line of the process.I tried running the /usr/ucb/ps command (/usr/ucb/ps -auwwx). It works in most of my test environments, but in my production environment even this command truncates the command line to a max 80 characters.How can I get the full ...

Hi,How do I change the environment variable of a user, say orambd.fromORA_NLS33=/oracle/client/81x_64/ocommon/nls/admin/datatoORA_NLS33=/oracle/MBD/920_64/ocommon/nls/admin/dataPlease helpAshraf.

Hello Everyone,I need help very urgently !!!We have a Sun Fire v240 with attached disk storage ( STOREDGE 3310 RAID AC). We were relocating the servers and while re-connecting I made something wrong in the SCSI and now it seems that the file system which would be mounted on the external Disk ...

OK, this deserves an RTFM and I am most happy to if someone can point me to the FM.My experience with Solaris is old, previously I would adda disk, newfs it (if needed), edit /etc/fstab and mount the disk. Now I have an Ultra 2 running Solaris 9. I bought an external disk off Ebay and will need ...

Hi,When I took the root hard disk(c1t0d0s0) from SFV480 and put in SFV890, the controller number changes to c3. That is c3t0d0s0.How this happens? What to do to get the same controller number c1?Thanks in advanceAshraf

Hi All,I'm using solaris 2.8, and I want create a new ftp user account, with restricted ftp access to a particuler directory, example: /home/softawre/billingI already googled, but always falling on other third parties ftp software, like proftpd...., or recommendation to setup anonymous ftp, ...

Dear All , We have sunfire 240 ,solaris 10 6/6 (+July Recomended Patches) and have ZFS file system on A5K and multipack.We got problem while restoring from zfs snapshot .This log from Solaris Crash Analys toolspanic[cpu0]/thread=30000feb640: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a1014a7230 addr=0 mmu_fsr=0 ...

I have Solairs 10 6/06. I am trying to print to a network attached HP 5M printer.I have tried lpadmin and cups and cannot get either to work.I followed the instructions in the sun handbook for printing to the HP. # svcs -a | grep printonline Sep_01svc:/application/print/cleanup:defaultonline ...

Recently I have tried to install pam_ldap (from padl.com).Because of many problems I followed somebody's advise to copy lobldap.XXX files from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib.From that moment I have problems with su.I am getting also the following messages from /var/adm/messages: Sep 4 16:48:00 ...

I am a newbCan some please tell me how i can configure samba on Solaris 10 ? Is samba already installed on Solaris 10?Here is the result of what i found on the systembash-3.00# svcs -a | grep sambalegacy_runSep_06lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S90sambabash-3.00#Your help is greatly ...

Dear All Gurus,I m facing problem in one of the Sun site. I am having 2 Sun E250 Servers and 2 Sun StorEdge d1000. while booting one of the server it is giving following on console terminal. Please help me in this problem.Sep 9 21:19:54 exports unix: PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm #5Sep 9 21:19:54 ...

Hi dear members! I have recently installed apache manually into /opt/apache now i am trying to create smf services for it to start it automatically on reboot. Here is my http.xml file<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM ...

Hi,I would like to know if it's mandatory that users accounts stored on the NIS master must have a shell assigned in order to be able to access to the application components. The users need to access to applications not to the operating system.Best Regards,Bernardo

HiI want to configure NTP in my solaris machine ( Solaris 9 9/05 s9s_u8wos_05 SPARC)if possible give me some links,books or steps to configure itThanks in Advance

Hi,I have a sunfire 280R server, i just upgraded from solaris 9 to 10, installed cool stack and got apache up and running, then i created a FTP account so that the webadmin can use it to update the website.The problem now is that when connecting to FTP using internet explorer i authenticate and ...

I am using Solaris 8, I found the /proc is becoming large, it is almost 40GB, one of the diectory is about 20GB, it is oracle server process ID, root@db1/#du -ks /proc384020240/procroot@db1/#cd /procroot@db1/proc#du -ks 185632040106318563root@db1/proc#how can I do at such condition, will it ...

prstat command is really useful and I am getting the output as expected.But I would like to add 'timestamp" for each record.How do I do that ? Can any body please help me with this ?Thanks.

Hi1 . I want to verify the unwanted running process? is there any other command other than ps -ef ?2. Can anybody tell me the difference for kill & pkill?3. Suppose if i'm kill a process using kill command whether that particular process can be restarted or not ?4. Suppose if i'm kill a ...

Hi,It is understood that the contents of /tmp directory will be deleted at reboot.Is there any way to configure such that /tmp contents wont be deleted at reboot?ORCan I make another directory, say temp as the default temporary directory?Please have your valuable ...

On a Solaris 9 machine which is NFS-mounting filesystems on a Linux server, we have /var/adm/messages errors such as: /var/adm/messages:Sep 25 13:10:56 ls0005 nfs: [ID 626546 kern.notice] NFS write error on host netapp: Stale NFS file handle. /var/adm/messages:Sep 25 13:10:56 ls0005 nfs: [ID ...

Hello Guys,Have anyone done installation of solaris 10 on IBM's x3650 machine. If so please tell me if they have faced any problems, what you have done to overcome it? Thanks in advance..Regards,Satish

Hi1. How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't havespace to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it?2. If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?Thanks in Advance

What if we used NFS to mount /etc/hosts. (We'll ignore DNS etc.).Is there a cyclical dependency?Why is this a bad idea?I've been thinking about this for awhile and can mostly see that it makes it easier to hijack naming since only do it once, but that doesn't seem like much of a reason since ...

Our root password was changed. Can I use installation CD to get into OS? How should I attempt to break into system?

Hi1. what is luxadm software ?I have heard that luxadm is administration program for storage 2. how to install this software ? 3. Is there any links to study about this s/w?Thanks in Advance

I am in need of help. I have sunfire v210 running solaris 10 Preinstalled. I want to login to this box remotely and have somthing like remote desktop in Windows. i get display not found error message. I have complete network connectivity

Hi all,I want to set up a mail service on a sun fire v880 server running solaris 10.this will be my first time doing so on a unix platform, and iam confused whether to choose sendmail or postfix, i need something reliable, secure and easy to administer.Please help me to choose if you are ...