Apparently the S24xntp method for configuring the NTP service is not valid. Anyone have info on how to configure the ntp client under Solaris 10 and enable it as a service?thx.

I am running solaris 9 on x86. I installed a new nvidia graphics card (GeForce 6600GT), and my display doesn't show up anymore. I tried using KDMconfig to chose a new graphics card. I selected XF86-VESA, and also tried NVIDIA GeForce. I still get the error: "fatal error, cannot open /dev/fb/" ...

Hi I have a Solaris 5.6 running on Spark Ultra-4. I had to restart my machine and I restarted the database and it seems fine. I found the following messae in the /var/adm/messages file and am a bit lost how to I resolve it. inetd[135]: /opt/samba/sbin/nmbd: HangupFeb 14 10:51:12 mnisdbs1 last ...

I encountered this error message when I launched the nmap uitlity on one of my servers:I was trying to scan udp portThe command wasnmap -p U:161 IPWhat's wrong here?Thankyou

Hi,I have been trying to write a script which allows me to edit the default input value.Let me explain it here what exactly I am trying to do:My script execution will be like this...Enter the location to install : /home/kssm_here with in my script I want to give the user of the script with a ...

I am thinking about becoming a sun certified solaris administrator. I would like to know if the current job market would need me to also have a bachelors degree in CS.Do you think that a SCSA( maybe also a SCNA and SCSECA ) certification are enough crudentials to get a good job in the Solaris ...

Hi,I am looking for CD-RW hardware and a softwre to work in a SUN/Solaris environment to make CD's of data.If you have knowledge of such configuration, please share.thanks

I've recently received a request to install "Secure FTP" on Solaris 2.6.Can anybody give me some pointers? Does Sun offer a "Secure FTP" product for Solaris 2.6?

I am running Solaris 9 on a V880.I have two users, fred & barney, that have a need to stop a process even if it was started by the other user.Example:fred starts the process "watch_for_new_files"barney needs to stop the process "watch_for_new_files", but it's owned by fred.How can barney ...

Hell All, How can I determine the version of a specific .so library?Thanks,

Hi Guys !!I am trying to use "ufsrestore xvf dump.dmp filename1, filename2" command in shell script to restore selective files from ufsdump dump.I want to restore non-interactively. So that once the file is executed it should restore without asking 1. Volume Number - Specify next volume #: 12. ...

What is the best way to troubleshoot a fibre channel error? We have a couple of refurbished E3500's that worked fine for over a year before they started failing with "ssdrestart transport failed" errors, followed by "Invalid wwn number 0 0" errors on restart. I want to find out if the problems ...

I am in a Solaris 9 environment.I am getting the following message on booting up:metaset: gdmanage: metad client create: RPC: Rpcbind failureEarlier I ran Solaris Security Toolkit and suspect it did something to volume manager.Any ideas? It sounds serious.Ken ...

Every couple of days when I log all my windows will hang.Finally, I will get a message: ksh: bad file unit number. Then, my session willact funny, i.e. when I use the up arrow to run previous commands, it will onlyshow me commands ran the previous day or seemingly random characters. Also,when I ...

GreetingsI recently had a problem on a Sun 440. There are 4 72 G drive 2 of which are stripped to create a metadevice d0. This config has been working for months. 2 days ago the machine crashed and now I get an error when the system comes up that the file system /dev/md/rdsk/d0 has an issue and ...

ls -l only gives you the month and date. Is there a command that gives you the date in yyyymmdd format?

I would like to run a filesystem cleanup using crontab every 4th sunday of the month. I can see how I would set this up if I wanted to run it on the 1st of every month or every sunday but neither of these are exactly waht I need. Am I missing something ? Thanks

Is is possible to disable a CPU on a Sun Fire V440?

Hi All,Kindly please let me know the OBP version level supported to run solaris 10 on various hardwares.(eg E450,Sun fire 6800..etc)Also Let kme know the link where I can the info.Regards,Senthil.

Hello. I'm new to solaris and have been trying to connect a solaris 9 box to the internet. This is the only solaris box on the network, everything else is windows and I'm beggining to think that this is where the root of my problems lie. I have read other threads on this subject but I still ...

Hi I have 2 V880's with 12 * 146 GB HDD & 4 CPU & 8 GB of RAM. I also have 3 Sun Ultra 60 and 2 E450 with 28 HDD.I have to calculate the heat generated and give to the aircon guys and the server room heats up.could anyone help me how do I get this info.

Hello,I am getting the folowing messages every 30-45 seconds in /var/adm/messages. :in.ftpd[11223]: [ID 825731 daemon.error] dlsym failedpam_sm_close_session: error ld.so.1: in.ftpd: fatal:pam_sm_close_session can't find symbolThe server is : The server is a Sun-Fire-880 running SunOS 5.8 ...

I'm getting this message at boot time on my volume manager mirror devices. What does it mean?

Hi,I need a solution to track the users which are logged in to remote machine and become root. And need the information from which machine the user logged and the commands history of the user. And this monitoring should be for round the clock.If any solution for this pls let me know.Thanks in ...

I have a V250, brand new and was working fine untilwe moved it. Now it gets to ok> and says"Invalid IDPROM contents", it waits a minute andshutsdown. Even if I boot -s, it still shutsdownduring boot.I had a SCSI PCI card from an Ultra 5 installed and I guessit wasn't compatible. Could the ...

Can any one help with this technical query?On a Sun V880 there are 3 power supplies (PSU0, PSU1 and PSU2) Only 2 are required for normal running with the 3rd for redundancy.On our site all three power supplies are connected to a mains outlet supply.One of the PSU is connected to a supply with ...

Can Sun Studio and Sun One run on Windows?

Hello everyone,Got 15 "Page <hex>,<hex> removed from service" in my /var/adm/message* files :(I would like to see if they are REALLY retired. There's a useful sundoc on the subject, using "mdb" http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-76833-1&searchclaus ...

I changed root shell via the following in /.profileif [ -x /usr/bin/ksh ]; then SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh export SHELL exec /usr/bin/ksh else echo /usr/bin/ksh not found using default shell of $SHELL fiIt works fine apart from when I try to log into CDE as root, where I get kicked straight out again, ...

I have to apply the following patches to one of our servers:111697, 113886, and 113887On the README files, it states that the first two do not depend on any other patches, and that 113887 depends on 113886. When I apply the patches, they are not applied because there are patches that need to be ...

I have a Sun V-240 and want to attach an old SE SCSI tape drive (its wide SCSI) to the external multimode SE/LVD interface.Question is, will this SE device slow the the internal Ultra160 SCSI bus that my disk drives are connected to?thanks John,

hi, i want to have firefox be my browser when i hit the clock icon in solaris 8 CDE. can anyone tell what i need to do for this?also, i recently installed an xterm icon on my panel and i'd like to run that with other options (color, scrollbar etc). can anyone tell me how do this?thx in ...

I am going to be upgrading from Solaris 7 to Solaris 9 within the next week or so on Sun 420. I have Veritas Volume manager installed. I would like to use Webstart to do the upgrade. Are there any particular "gotchas" I should look out for prior/during the upgrade? I am hoping this is going to ...

Hi,Our Solaris 8 box is running out of space on the root filesystem and we can't find which file is taking up space. Please help.In couple of hours we lose about 200 mbytes on root FS. We've use find -mtime -1, find ".*" to find the problem file, but no luck.Anyone know other ways or method ...

Hello, I'm new to this forum and new to Solaris. It is now part of my job so I have to learn it. It seems like a fun OS to learn but a bit cumbersome at first. I have loaded Solaris 8 on a SF v100, and all was working fine until this morning.I'm assuming it is still working ok, however, I ...

Hi,Just a general question regarding the SunONE / SunJES messaging server.We've got a HA-clustered messaging/messagestore environmentFrom experience we know that on the message store, when you edit the {instanceroot}/imta/config/ims-ms_option file, it becomes active after about 15 minutes when ...

Hello friends:I am using Solaris 10 under Sparc.i am having some problem with Solaris Managemen ConsoleWith users -> users accounts -> edit a userwhen i click on Groups TAB i can read:The groups can not be listed. You can ....It has been running, but sice 1 day ago it doesn't...We don't ...

Are there any Antivirus Servers Enterprise Edition (available for Solaris on RISC PLatform) that can update windows client antivirus in a network.

I just created a new logical drive on my SE3310, using ten 70GB disks in a RAID5 configuration. When I try to use newfs to create a UFS filesystem, I get the following:root@tiny2% newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s6newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s6: (y/n)? yMinimum bytes per inode is ...

Hello Experts,We have a softwares which can make a image of current OS.Would like to know if we have any software for Solaris which can image the OS and we can keep it as a backup.If anything goes wrong that we can use the image to up the OS in no time.For Example :- is Norton Ghost utility ...

Does anyone know how to get init 6 working again. The command "reboot" works.Thanks,

Hi Guys,I hope you can help... (I have also posted this in the solaris9 forum)I am quite new to Sun kit, being an old IBM / HP man myself. I have been given some information that I am a little suspicious about and could do with some clarification - if possible.According to our onsite Unix ...

I have been investigating the impact of upgrading from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8 on my OS server and diskless clients (that were installed with AdminSuite 2.3). It appears from the documentation that I need to uninstall each diskless client and then uninstall OS services on my OS server prior to ...

When I boot Solaris 8 system, I am getting the following error. But I don't know what was happened?" Couldn't set locale correctly "Even I got the same error when I login thru telnet.Kindly advice me to solve this problem.Sarav

Currently, if the NIS server is unavailable, our workstations will hang on boot and give the message "WARNING: Timed out waiting for NIS to come up." I would like the workstations to boot whether or not the server is available. Is this possible.I have a local user on each workstation that they ...

Hi,Is there a way to use port b on a Sun V100 as a remote login access through a modem. I read somewhere that the port doesn't have DCD and then the port monitor can not work properly.Thanks

Hi, I created file /etc/defaultrouter that contain the IP address of the default router, but when I rebooted my Solaris (2.8), how come the default route was not added to the routing table? Printout from netstat -nr does not have the default route.Any help is appreciated!Joseph ...

Is there a way to copy a directory and sub-directories, as well as links, permissions, and ownerships?

I've just joined a company where during standard UNIX builds, they change the root shell from /sbin/sh to /bin/ksh. They can't remember why this was done when I queried them, but from what I've always read, this is not a good idea. Any comments?

Hi, I've got a SunFire V480 setup with Solaris 8 2/02 (full install). I've got a video adapter + keyboard pluged in to configure this server. I've got an PCI HSI card in there, configured with the driver from the "Solaris supplement software CD"...The driver installed without a hitch... ...