Hi people anybody with config procedures for setting up qmail as the MTA in Solaris 10.Thanks all

Hello everybodyI tried to upgrade Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 with installation disk, after installation gather information I pressed install. And installation status is failed with error:Error: The specified root and/or boot was not found or not upgradablePfinstall failed. Exist ...

Hi,I am using the command cp -p file1 file2 where file2 is being written to a nfs mounted zfs partition. But the commands gives an error while executing.cp: preserving permissions for `./ncftp-3.1.9.tar': Invalid argumentThe same works fine when the nfs partition mounted is UFS.So the issue is ...

We're trying to convert our Oracle platform from SPARC boxes to the Sun AMD boxes. The current showstopper is the inability to locate the Oracle Agent for Solaris x86. Oracle runs fine. The basic Legato client works fine. Just can't find the Oracle Agent for x86.Legato/EMC won't respond to ...

HiI wrote a new smf service and added it to the repository.When running with "stop" (when the system goes down) it sends an alert to another machine.My question is :How can I schedule that service to run just before network services go down?another question, how can I schedule another service ...

Hi,I had enable quotas on one filesystem. After some time found that one of the user had exceeded the quota and even the Lite left was alos expired. When user came reporting, he is unable to even login to system, thru CDE, asked to removed the stuff from his home directory. Now if a 'du -sk ' ...

Hello everyone. I'm new to Solaris and would love to use it as the OS on a storage server because of zfs however I'm wondering about something. Lets say I have 6 hard drives on the server. 5 of them are set up using zfs and raidz and the Solaris OS is on the 6th drive. If the drive with ...

Yesterday a bunch of syslog entries showed up, out of nowhere, no one was logged in, no cron jobs running at that time, the system was not rebooted:Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge2: ddi_intr_get_supported_types() returned: 1Apr 5 17:27:16 jackson bge: [ID 801725 ...

System is 280R, Solaris 9.Single serial port.It seems ttya is hung. Can I remotely (no admintool) switch output to port B without rebooting?any help is greatly appreciated.Mike

HI There,I am trying to apply the flash update #106121-18 to an Ultra 1 Enterprise, which is currently at OBP version 3.25.0. When i run the flash update, i get the message:**ERROR - There were no binary modules found. You may have loaded the wrong flash update files for this system, which has ...

Does anyone know of a wrapping program that will log user info(UID, date, complete command-line args, etc) when an application is started?Just like TCP-Wrapper does for network services.

Hi All,We have configured NAS 5210 with both NIS and Active Directory services. As the users will be accessing the data stored on NAS Box in both the Operating Environments we are using a common home directory for both the windows and Unix accounts. Problem1:Now the issue is, whenever user is ...

i have spent the last 2 hours searching google and these forums for answers to the following questions. please, does anybody here know the answers? (see below for details of what i DO know): 1. probe-ide reports my 2nd internal hdd as ""Device 2 ( Secondary Master )". what do i have to do to ...

Hello,Does anyone know what this is please. I've never seen a proc called pandora running?!SunOS xxxxx 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210/usr/ucb/ps/wwaux:lp20364 0.0 0.1 1888 424 ?SMar 23 0:00 lpadminroot21707 0.0 0.8 4616 3624 ?SMar 29 1:18 /usr/lib/inet/inetd ...

I was looking for the latest info on supporting some Sony AIT2 drives now that I have installed the latest st patch on my Solaris 8 backup hosts (we are still keeping Netbackup 3.4 in production!), and the recommended config from Sony (in a manual dated Feb 2007) recommends this line for the ...

I am seeing the following logs on all 5 of my servers, indicating that all 4 power supplies have failed. However, the server is still running, and can successfully power up from a full shutdown....May 1 16:39:11 ... rmclomv: [ID 974741 kern.error] PSU @ PS0 has FAILED.May 1 16:39:44 ... ...

When i do a shutdown using init 6,it runs for some seconds and then it return having noting.Does init have verbose function ? regards Jens Madsen

Hi,Is it possible to edit a forum topic I have posted. I would like to remove company name from imports.

How do I selectively prevent all USB ports on a server or client running Solaris 8 or 10 from being available. I am basically trying to prevent mounting USB drives by open USB ports.

Greetings,I have been handed an MRV LX-series 16 port terminal server to use as a console server. However, I cannot figure out how to send a Stop-A break to the terminal server. I've read through the command reference and all the guides out for this device but to no avail.We're trying to move ...

Hi,I'm a sysadmin only when absolutely necessary.This is one of those times...Aliases in my /etc/aliases file have stopped working.No idea why.What does the aliases infrastructure need to work?I've restarted sendmail, hoping that would work - but no luck.Is there a checklist for identifying ...

Hello - I come from hpux background - we usually use these steps to troubleshoot a disk: iocan -fnC disk (check for no hardware), run vgdisplays to check for stale mirrors, run dd against the disk to see if it responds. Does anyone have a similar set of steps that can be run on solaris to ...

I'm trying to add some software to a Solaris machine and am finding it a little frustrating.I would like to add the package that contains PKCS #11 libraries and headers so I can use some of these functions to do some encryption.There is some documentation for this here: ...

About a year ago, I successfully installed a Solaris 10 host as a DNS server, and it is humming away on a public internet IP with no firewall, and quite happy. Of course as one of the prerequisites I disabled svc:/network/rpc/bind:default. The server is quite happy with only ports 22 and 53 ...

I have a Solaris 10 host with a zero-length inetd.conf file. This should prevent inetd from offering any open ports, but it does not. Even with a zero-length inetd.conf file, inetd opens port 6112. There are numerous warnings about port 6112 out on the net, it is associated with "dtspcd". But ...

Hi,I cannot enable rlogin on a solaris10 boxbash-3.00# svcs -a | grep rlogindisabledMay_22svc:/network/login:rloginbash-3.00# svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rloginbash-3.00# svcs -d svc:/network/login:rloginSTATE STIMEFMRIbash-3.00#bash-3.00# svcs -l svc:/network/login:rloginfmri ...

This started happening after I accidentally disabled and reenabled "cyptosvc". Now sshd is dead, too and cryptosvc cannot be restarted, I cannot log into the system, and there's a bunch of garbage in /var/adm/messages:Anyone have any ideas?May 22 09:59:44 ns4b named[25046]: [ID 866145 ...

Hi,I have a FTP server enabled on one of our machine. My requirement is the user has ftp home directory and they should not be able to do cd .. from the current/home directory. What i can do for this?Eg:when i logged in as ftpuser1 my path/home directory is /ftphome/home/ftpuser1i shoud not be ...

I have an Ultra 30 running Solaris 10 with 1 GB of RAM and 500 MB of swap. The machine runs extremely slowly. When I run top I see that memory is highly utilized, but swap remains mostly untouched. For example, right now there is only 50 MB of RAM free, but 453 MB of swap. Is there a way to ...

Hi I am a PM for a project with STC we have a number of sun servers. I want to check the warrant conditions and support status. I can provided the serial numbers. I need to know the procedure? Can any body assist ?

help me please..i am currently working in company having 55 workstation and using Microsoft XP both server and workstation. As a new system administrator on my company i would like to use SOLARIS 10 as my internet server, is it a good idea? i am new in Solaris 10.. please help ...

I wanted to know if their are any license associated for using the Virtualization software for solaris and if so what are the costs involved. Are the license dependent on Server and do the cost vary with the number of CPU. Also can you please let us know the sun server models which support ...

Hello all,Please I need you guys to tell me where i can get solaris experience. I have been able to do self study for a while now. But I need to get experience to ground my knowledge with actual work. I need somewhere i could put into practice what i have learnt. I dont need to paid, I just ...

hello!,I need to execute a bash script when any user logs in and out, can you tell me where are the files I need to modify in order to accomplish this?Thanks!

Hi allI have posted this thread first in the Install forum but I think it should be here.I am trying to restore the root and var file system which have been backed-up on one server and restore is on another server:1. I took /,/var ufsdump on server 12. I booted from cdrom -s on server 23. I ...

I am trying to troubleshoot an existing script and have located the point of failure. Before I make any changes I need to know what the bolded entry is doing/for:mount /dev/dsk/$disk /mnt 2>/dev/nullI know that if I leave it off everything will work, but does anyone have an idea what the ...

I have following physical disks:AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0 <SUN146G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 848> /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000014c336a0ad,01. c1t1d0 <SUN146G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 848>Now:metastat d0d0: MirrorSubmirror 0: d10State: OkaySubmirror 1: ...

I have added a new Sunfire v440 server to my network; I need to make it the NIS master. Current NIS configuration: Ultra60 (Solaris 8) is NIS master, Samba server, license server and NFS file server; v440 (Solaris 10) is a NIS slave,Ultra10 (Solaris 8) is a NIS slave. Planned NIS configuration: ...

I am trying to figure out why a machine with lots of unused RAMis using so much swap.I have a V240 running Solaris 10. Its running a large Oracle db.The 4th line of /opt/sfw/bin/top shows:Memory: 8192M real, 4907M free, 2143M swap in use, 18G swap freeRunning '/opt/sfw/bin/df -t ufs -t nfs -t ...

Hello, I need to mirror a hard disk with Solaris 10 using an external USB hard disk . But this is not my only problem, something happen with the external disk after my first tries and now I cannot read the disk. I need to reformat, add file systems and anything it is required to use it again. ...

am a new user of sun solaris 10. I am using sunfire 280 for test. I am trying to install Quantum DLT7000 tape backup device to my sun fire. Is there any one who can tell me how to do it step by step? Thank you very much.

I am trying to redirect output from a 'find' invocation in Solaris 10. This find command:find . -type d -name "02" -printWorks great when run without redirection. When I attempt to do a simple redirect, like this:find . -type d -name "02" -print > /tmp/stuff.outNothing ends up in the ...

I am trying to assemble an Opensolaris CD form the three parts that are downloaded:$ cat sol-nv-b64a-sparc-dvd-iso-a sol-nv-b64a-sparc-dvd-iso-b > sol-nv-b64a-sparc-dvd.isocat: write error: File too largeThis is apparently a shell problem. Does anyone know of a workaround that will work in Solaris ...

Hi, when I am using SMC to make a new mount. It shows "unable to read security authorization because of an unexpected error from management error." Is there anyone know where is the problem? which part should I change?I am trying to make a NFS environment. I already created a shared folder.My OS is ...

as root user I've edited the syslog.conf unhashing the lineauth.notice ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)I ran the command kill -HUP 'cat /etc/syslog.pid'But nothing is being written to the /var/log/authlog file. I then changed the permission from -rw-1 rootsys0 Apr 3 2005 ...

<p>,</p><p>I need to know how to turn the controls on for password creation on Unix servers.</p><p>Particularly, we need to force users to use proper guidelines when reseting and making new password. This is to stop the often seen error easily guessed password in reports.</p>

Hi allI've an Ultra 2 running Solaris 8 and we have to move the whole system to a Netra T1. The Ultra 2 has lots of legacy software that nobody knows how to reinstall :-( . So I would like to copy the ultra2's OS and files to the Netra.Anybody know a good method of doing this ? Flasharchive ? or ...

Hi,I have a Solaris sparc 5.9 setup. When I give the command crontab -e, instead of opening an editor the control comes to the next line with 0 displayed. Then I have to use CTR+Z to come back to the prompt. The have pasted the screen shot of the same:$ crontab -e0^Z[2]+ Stoppedcrontab -e$Kindly ...

<p>hi</p><p>on a solaris sparc 9 environment <b>mailx</b> command is unable to send mails to the outside world. What could be the reason & needs to be checked?</p><p>thanks</p>

Hello,I have a t2000 server with no graphics card. I've been tasked to install Oracle software on this box. What is the best solution in terms of being able to run Oracle gui interface knowing there is no graphics card? Would I have to use something like hummingbird or other similar free-ware ...