I am wondering if there is a "best practice" for setting the zonepath in Solaris 10.I created two zones on the /opt file system. Then, when attempting to apply patches while in single user mode, the patchadd failed because the system could not mount the zones.Applying the patches while in ...

Hi all,I often use disksuite, and resync the mirror."metareplace -e d10 c1t1d0s3" and so on..But, when you start syncing up all the slices, they all start the same time. Is there a script outthere, that can queue the metereplace task, and take them one at a time.. ?I suck at writeing script :) ...

Ever since I started workin at my current job (~1 year) I've struggled with patch management. Unfortunantly due to the nature of our business it is impossible for me to connect any of our Solaris 8 computers to the Internet. Because of this I've had to download patches one at a time and bring ...

Hi,Sorry this is sort of a beginner's question:I'm trying to set up my NIC card for my newly installed Solaris Express - build 24.Everything went smoothly except that it did not recognize my NIC card - which is a RealTek 8110S.I looked it up through the HCL and its status was that it was ...

I need to have a jumpstart server that can scale to a dozen simultaneous jumpstart installs. How big of a server do I need?

I have a Sun 250 that is not heavly used. Lately it has been droping to the ok prompt as if someone had hit the "stop a" combo. There is no keyboard I use the console through the AOLM serial port. The strangest part is that it only does it when no one is logged into the box. Once it drops to ...

Our older Sun 280R's would reboot if the power went out and came back on. The new V440 needs to have the power pushbutton pressed or it doesn't boot. Is there any way to make the V440 automatically boot after a power outage ?

Hi,We are currently using iplanet web server. The default date format in the access logs is dd/mmm/yyyy:HH:MM:SS GMT. How can we change this format to yyyy/mm/dd:HH:MM:SS GMT.Thanks in advance

I would like to have feedback (Pros and Cons) about in having Internet applications in for example three tiers (DB, App, Webb) on one big server with domains or many small separate servers. Anyone?

Hello all,I am newbie, i want to know is there any euiqvalent to inetd.sec as in HP UX for solaris 9?Thanks in advance.

I'm doing testing with Solaris 8 & 10 and Veritas Volume Manager 4.1. Everything is working, and I'm verifying that both my rootdisk and rootmirror are capable of successfull booting. I rebooted the server with 'reboot -- rootmirror' (aliases already configured in eeprom). However, I ...

Dear sysops,I'm not sure if it's a solaris problem, or just the applications I am using. This problem has re-produced itself twice so I'm very confused! I am running Solaris 9 SPARC, with OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e. Anyway, if I run ssh with X forwarding on a remote Solaris 9 SPARC ...

Hi,i have 9 sun ray terminals attached to the main server. I know the ip address, dns, gateway of the server. How do i know the ip address of each individual sun ray terminal. Also, if i wanted to attach my laptop to this network, how do i assign a new ip and stuff .thanks ...

Hi Folks,Apologies in advance for the length of this post...I'm working on disaster recovery and testing my system on an Ultra 30.This machine is running Solaris 9.The machine has 2 18GB hard disks with the following partitions...c0t0d0s0 = / (root)c0t0d0s5 = /usrc0t0d0s6 = ...

I'm using a customized xdm-based login manager instead of the dtlogin infrastructure on Solaris 9, and I'm getting some weird results.The first symptom I noticed when logging in with the xdm-based manager was that 'sudo' broke. Digging into it with truss, I found that when sudo calls ...

i am trying to rsh on sun machine but it says CONNECTION REFUSED . i can ping that system .so what could be the problem

I downloaded the JES for solaris an when I try to install the Web server and Message queue server, it only add /usr/appserver folder. infact it doesn't request or cd 2. can anyone help with a procedure for just installing the Sun App server!.

In an attempt to clean up printers.conf file, I'm trying to find out which printers users are printing to. I've got the following entry in syslog.conf (I've HUP'ed syslogd after adding)lpr.infoifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/printlog, @loghost)I sent a print job to check if it logs anything in ...

hi all, I ahve here a sunfire v880, in te night the server goes down and today in the morning I tried to fix it, but the keyboard doesn't work, I have a sun USB keyboardn connected to the USB of the server but when I tried to put the root password but the keyboard doesn't work, do you know ...

I get the folliowin error when I run ./configure loading cache ./config.cachechecking for gcc... (cached) gccchecking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... noconfigure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

Will the included Sun management s/w work on a server that is not running Solaris. Or rather, is there a Windows version? Or does a shop using Windows on one of the Galaxy line of servers have to use something like Microsoft MOM?

I need to move 2 cpu's from one v480 to another to make a 4 processor server. Both are same processor speed and openboot version. Neither server will recongnize more than 2 processors at the openboot level. Does anyone know of anything special that needs to be done when moving processors? I ...

when I run the command nessus-mkcert I get the following error messagesld.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/nessusd: fatal: libnasl.so.2: open failed: No such file or directoryKilledExecuting nessusd failed. Make sure your library loader is configured properlyand that nessusd is in your $PATHMy Path is:# ...

how to upgrade from solaris 8 to solaris 10 by using solaris live upgrade on sparc machine (TYPE: SunFire V280R)

what is the difference between the run levels init s and init S

I have a radio clock from www.timetools.co.uk, does anyone know if it can work with NTP and if so how do I configure NTP ?

Hi All,I am quite new for Solaris Plateform. I am using Solaris 8. Default shell is C shell (/bin/csh) for me. When I login in Solaris, file .cshrc gets executed. I have written few others bash shell scripts. when I execute my bash scripts first .cshrc gets executed and then my shell exectutes. ...

Our Solaris 9 got unstable yesterday and it does not boot anymore. First symptom was when I tried to open ssh connection to the server and it replied "Could not allocate pty..." or something similar. When I logged in locally I couldn't run some commands like ls in /tmp dir, I just got an ...

I'm trying to set up Solstice DiskSuite on an Ultra30 Running Solaris 8.I have two 4.3GB disks set up as followsc0t0d0s0 = /c0t0d0s6 = /export/homec0t0d0s7 = unassigned - to be used for state database replicasc0t1d0s5 = /export/home0c0t1d0s6 = unassigned for the moment but will be used to ...

Hi,I have veritas installed on my sun box. I can find out the inode utilization of a ufs file-system using /usr/bin/df -F ufs -o i <File-system>. But is there a command to find out the inode utilization of a vxfs file-system ?I referred the df_vxfs(1M) manual page but couldn't extract ...

Hi,I'm new to Solaris/Unix so please bear with me :)I am trying to install a program. I need to configure it first, the configuration script seems to not find tcl/tk although they are installed: SMCtcl/SMCtkpkginfo -l SMCtcl gives:PKGINST: SMCtclNAME: tclCATEGORY: applicationARCH: ...

Hello all..I ahve Sun boxes..Please let me know how do i collect the following infomartion from this boxes...model, cpu type and speed, memory. disks size(mirrored or not), network interface present on the server and speed, OS version, OS patch level, MAC address, serial no....thanks in ...

I was told that Sol 9 will not allow you to remove more than 20,000 files using the rm command... does anyone know if this is true? Also, if this is the case, how do we increase this number? Perhaps an entry in /etc/systems? I only suggest that because you set things in there like the max ...

Looking for opinions, pros/cons, on booting from a san using solaris on sparc hardware.I know it can be done but am not seeing the benefits as compared to say a billy box. We routinely boot windows off of a san for hardware independence. If we need to upgrade/downgrade/replace hardware we just ...

At Solaris 8, do any of the following wipe out changes to the /etc/system file?-general patches-kernel patches-OS upgradesThanks

I am attempting to set up a stand-alone (no name service) x-86 boot server under Solaris-8 02/02. This server is to be used to install x-86 machines which are used in our product. I would like to have all the necessary configuration information defined on the server as opposed to putting things ...

Hi all,I want to do network configuration on the new Solaris machine(SunOS 5.10).I have use ifconfig -a to see the interfaces currently in the system ,and i only see loopback interface.Any way of checking the presence of NIC in my system.I thanks,B

hiI'm having problems trying to install the latest Solaris 8 Recommended patches cluster. When I run the install_cluster script I get lots of errors with error code 5 which apparently refers to pkgadd failure. Patch installation also fails when I try to install individual patches from the ...

Hi,How can I find the egrep version installed on Solaris 10 as I don't see any egrep --version option.Also wanted to know which version would support option of -A (eg. egrep -A NUM PATTERN FILE )Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.Thanks & Regards,Kiran. ...

We are having an issue attempting to configure an SE3310 with RAID0 and 1.6T of disk space where the Solaris host is not able to autoconfigure (it fails) or only allows us to see 108G (no matter the size of the logical disk). We have tried both the on-board SCSI controller (I believe it the MTP ...

I have SUN Blade 2000 2xUltraSparcIII cu,RAM2Gb,PGX64,2xST373305FS. When I press power button, system turnig on (fans working and disk spining up), but power led into power button doesn't light (never), and system not booting. Power voltages are normal. I've checked. What i to do then, i ...

When I execute showmount -e on a client it says RPC program not registered.What does this mean?

Hello,I need to give user contorl of jumpstart without doing anything on Jumpstart server.I want some solution where user types at OK promptboot net - install sol8 and it installs Solaris 8vsboot net - install sol10 and it installs Solaris 10I do not want use compress file solution or using ...

Hi,The sftp does not support mget *.*. How to upload multiples files using sftp?Regards,Yim

Here's the scoop. We have a 1 Gb fibre connection between our backup server and data warehouse through a Cisco 4006 switch. We want to increase that to 2 Gb by trunking/aggregating two Gb connection together to allow the backups to complete sooner. Right now the network is the bottleneck, not ...

Hi All,Would be grateful if anyone could help. I'm trying to find out if it is possible to do this work on the server side.The scenario is this:A user on his/her web browser typed an url, browser send url to DNS to check and found it to be invalid, and display an error page to the user.Instead ...

Hi all,does anyone here know how I can get the SUNWpsvr package? I looked in my OS media and also the Disks in the Solaris media album and wasn't able find it there. This package is necessary in creating a patch server. Thanks in advance,mc

Hi, I would like to ask the cause of the problem why I get "Request not found" error when accessing our Storade via http. I access storade in this form: http://<server ip add>:7654Any input is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi,I am upgrading my operating system from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 (Sparc machine). Will my Storedge A1000 array will continue working if I don't go for upgradation of software for array?Thanks in advance.

Hello,I found our application is sometimes having problems renaming files on the Solaris 8 OS. The file ends up having zero links to it.[root@servera]# ls -altotal 2842drwxr-xr-x2 pbhother222720 Jan 26 15:31 .drwxr-xr-x6 pbhother512 Jan 27 08:27 ..-rw-r--r--1 pbhother4256 Jan 25 17:44 ...