I am running into a problem with "/usr/sbin/arp" and I am running the command as "root". ba0 : this is an ATM interface and it has four VCs configured (one each for 10.1.1.1, 10.1.1.2, 10.1.1.3, 10.1.1.4). Output of "arp -a" is correct.Problem:# arp -d 10.1.1.1< -- simply hangs at ioctl() ...

Hello all,i am running a bash script as root and want to run a command as a different user. i use 'su - user -c "command"'.i need to use the output of the command.the problem is that as part of the output i get the "Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005" bash login text and ...

hello all,I am new to Solaris. How do I lock down Solaris? Does Solaris have a firewall and antivirus that can be administrated using a GUI? Reason, is, I have been used to using Windows.Does anyone have any tips. I am a total newbie, and am not used to the Solaris Enviroment and configuration. ...

Dear AllCan i install a microsoft application or microsoft client on sun solaris . Please let me know if there are any workarounds for this,Thanks

Attempting to adduser to zone1useradd -u 1001 -g 10 -d /export/home/testtwo testtwoReceiving this error:UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: No such file or directory.Was able to add successfully in global zone with:useradd -m -d /export/home/testone testoneAlso attempted to ...

Hi,Im seeing different requirement for memory when installing Solaris 10, and i was wondering if the following is correct:Minimum:64Need for GUI: 256So is it correct that you can install solaris 10 on a sparc og x86 with 64mb ? i guess it is only text ...

I have implemented a ldap server (and admin server) service and made apache tomcat depending on this, since we had trouble starting tomcat without ldap running (tomcat makes a jndi connection to ldap).Manifests etc got imported and everything if fine sa far. But on a test boot I still got ...

Hi,I am trying to jumptart a x4100 server with solaris 10U1. All goes well until the x86.miniroot is loaded. The last message I can see on the screen is:kernel /I86PC.Solaris_10-1/multiboot kernel/unix install http://10.1.17.40/ju mpstart.tar s10_x86 ...

We are running Solaris 8 on our system, and we want to go to 10. Can we upgrade directly from 8 to 10 or should we upgrade to 9 and then go to 10? Is it advisable to run the upgrade process or to directly install version 10?Thanks

I have a Ultra-10 that used to run headless but I recently put a head on it. Ever since then, it shuts itself off (hibernates) and I can't bring it up unless I press the power key on the keyboard. How do I prevent it from falling asleep? I need to access the machine remotely.Thanks! ...

Can I mount an NFS file system from the global zone at <zoneroot>/<nfspathinsidezone>?

Hi Friends Im facing a typical problem , being new to solaris I want some help on rsh .Typically when we had solaris 8 in our network when we gave rsh Hostname we used to login without being prompted for password , now we have migrated to solaris 10 and when I do a rsh Hostname , we are ...

Can any one tell what is the path of library in solaris for example mpss.so.1

I applied the latest S10 Recommended patches on three systems with no problems. But, on the fourth system nearly every patch failed with the following message:Installing 120719-01...Installation of 120719-01 failed. Return code 5.I checked the manpage for patchadd and there are no return codes ...

Is it possible to migrate Oracle 8.1.7 from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10? I find out the papers or the practices from internet that were done before. Do you have any documents said that or gurantee success?

I remember seeing a doc on docs.sun.com on enabling gdm login but I can't find it now. Does anyone have the link or remember the steps?

Could someone be kind enough to post here a link to or the actual information regarding the md5sums to check the iso files for Solaris 10 1/06 Sparc CD and DVD images against? It seems strange to me Sun didn't include this info on the download page and I'd like to be certain they came through ...

Hi..On a v240 server running Solaris 8, I attempted many times to upgrade to Solaris 10 using the Jan 2006 Cd's. However. because a 3310 disk array that was striped, then mirrored using METASTAT and no spare blank disk...all upgrade attempts failed. I had a case open with Sun Support for quite ...

Dear All Managers And Administrators;Hi and hello to all; hope you are all in fine and healthy mood.This is regarding DNS And DHCP communication in solaris 9 x86 environment.I have installed DHCP And DNS on Solaris 9 x86 servers.Currently I am facing one typical problem it is like that. :When I ...

i cannot to enter on a server with rsh as root, somebody tell me what's the problem?

Hi,I'm pretty much forced to run Solaris 10 on some Ultra5's. This may sound like a silly question (to those who know), but which desktop would give the better performance - CDE or Java Desktop?Thanks,Phil

Hi, I am running Solaris 8; ntpdate 3-5.93e.Running:ntpdate -u -d server0119 Jun 11:01:22 ntpdate[24907]: ntpdate 3-5.93e Mon Sep 20 15:45:30 PDT 1999 (1)transmit(172.25.12.5)transmit(172.25.12.5)transmit(172.25.12.5)transmit(172.25.12.5)transmit(172.25.12.5)server 172.25.12.5, port 123stratum ...

Not sure where to report solaris 10 bug, anyone know? So I will post it here.... Solaris 10 sparc patch 118872-03 breaks set construct wildcard. For example:% ls [A-Z]*will return filename of both upper and lowercase..back out 118872-03 fix the problem. 118872-02 works.. -- ...

Hi,I upgraded from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10. Now a have few problem on the server :- the system wide timezone is not set to the correct one- the whole distribution has been installed ! I tried prodreg to remove some packages but it's really slow and I can't revert to a minimal distribution (I ...

Hi,which mac address gets an virtual interface of a solaris zone an how do I get this information out of a solaris zone?Thanks for help.Eric

hi everyonei am completely new to solaris environmentdont know how to get startedi have some problems n m seeking for ur helpmy first problem is i dont know in which path (shell) environment i m working n wat is this all about n wat is the default one currently i m trying to get started with ...

Hi,sorry that I ask this silly questions here, but I guess even though I read a lot of papers, I still miss some general conceptual points!? Maybe someone can give me a good hint what to read or how to understand SMF's general philsophy?Here is my (next) problem:I just created a new manifest ...

Does the Ultra 10 with PROM version 3.17 needs a flash update?because I have problems with configuring the jumpstart server.setup_install_server with DVD gets stuck.

We have an application that we are migrating to Solaris 10 with in which we want to break off certain parts and run them stand-alone in their own zones. However, the operator will be logged into the global zone, and the various pieces will display to the main display residing on the global ...

I have run into a keyboard problem on my Solaris 10 desktop. The keyboard is messed up. When I type 搑oot?then it echoes as 揺iir? It is a Solaris 10 x86 system with PS/2 keyboard. The keyboard layout is US-English and type is generic 104 keys. The keyboard works fine in text mode but gets messed ...

Hi,since we upgraded to solaris 10, ssh behavior changed. After validating the login, it takes something like 10 seconds for ssh to ask for the password. Has anyone observe such behavior ?

i have installed a vncserver from solaris companion CD. when i start the server by using #vncserver command, i can connect it use IE with http://192.168.1.10:5801, but it just is a console window, not my solaris JDS3 desktop, BUT i just want to see the desktop.What should i do?is there any ...

In Sweden we use a blank (' ') as the thousands separator character, and that's also what I get on one of our older servers (SunOS 5.8). Check this out:export LC_MONETARY=svlocale -k LC_MONETARYreturns:int_curr_symbol="SEK "currency_symbol="kr"mon_decimal_point=","mon_thousands_sep=" " ...

Hello all!My V210 system use crontab to patch installling, but last 5 days i see this message:smpatch updateFailure: SSL peer shut down incorrectlyWhy?

Hi peopleI had a solaris 10 x86 machine configured as a dhcp client. I need to preserve the original setting of /etc/resolv.conf. How can I preserve it ?Thank you inadvance.Cheersfire-fly

Hi i recently installed gcc-3.4 on Solaris 10(sparc) from a package of sunfreeware, it installed everything in /usr/local, the directory /usr/local was created during the installation.The thing is that when i type #gcc, i get a message of "gcc: not found" i have to compile everything typing ...

Hi all,I am having problems to connect using my XDMCP windows client after hardening the system with a modified driver from hardening.driver.These are finish scripts I have removed from ...

A service test-app is enabled, and it's file dependency is absent.It goes into offline state as one would expect.# svcs -x /site/test-app State: offline since Wed Jun 21 22:59:52 2006Reason: Dependency file://localhost/opt/test/test-app.cfg is absent. Impact: This service is not running.Then I ...

With NIS, if the file /var/yp/binding/$domain/ypservers doesn't exist,it can be assumed a NIS client is working in broadcast mode.How could you find this information out with NIS+? Is there a similiarfile? The NIS_COLD_START doesn't seem to provide this information.Thanks for any ...

Hi,I know it is in general in contradiction to the strategy of SMF, but is there a way to implement a automatic e-mail notification if a service is begin restarted (or at least if a restart failed).I know that I could put this to the start/stop scripts but this I don't like since these might ...

Hi All,When you think it can't get any worse. I have a Ultra 45 , Brand Spanking New, about $5000. Loaded Solaris 10 on it and thought, let me go download the Solaris 10 (Sparc) patch cluster and install it before I move this system into the lab. Come to find out you now have to have a "PAID ...

Hi,I have a fedora box that I run as an XDMCP server, this allows users to log on and use it as a thinclient. However is there anyway of doing this or something simular in Solaris 10?, preferbly without the need for SunRays. Could you please write a newbies or supply a newbies guide howto if ...

Can an existing oracle 9i database be moved into a new zone? The database resides on it's own filesystem. The server is runnign Solaris 10, and the zones are not set up yet, but Oracle is installed, and the 2 databases are up and running.Basically there are 2 existing oracle 9i databases, and ...

I need to setup the monitoring for my solaris server, when the server is down the system has to sendme mail/pager/call. Is it possible to set, If so how?If any one has sound installation procedures pass over and i oblige by Thanks!!!

root@DB1 # cfgadm -alAp_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantConditionc0scsi-busconnectedconfiguredunknownc0::dsk/c0t0d0CD-ROMconnectedconfiguredunknownc1fc-privateconnectedconfiguredunknownc1::210000008744b1e0disk connectedconfiguredunknownc1::21000000878f4447disk ...

Hi allI have read next monday solaris 10 6/06 will be launched worldwide, including new and waited zfs v. 1.0.I have been using my solaris 10_x86 1/06 for some time ago... and I was wondering if it would be possible to upgrade my system (not re-installing it from zero) or even, install ZFS as ...

I am new to Solaris and Unix and I'd like to learn it. So I installed Solaris 10 in one of my boxes and it looked like my network card was recognized appropriately. I can ping my gateway and other machines (Win XP) in my home network can ping it as well.I've also set my dns (resolv.conf) to ...

With Solaris 10, you not only get the Java Desktop System desktop environment, but also the Java Desktop System Management Tools and a selection of free and trial Development Tools, which are available for download only.I found only an information about JDS release 2but today it's release 3 ...

Hi All, I am trying to install Samba, and when i am trying to Make i am getting the following error, please some help.. as iam stuck with this. Using FLAGS = -O -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ -I./popt -Iinclude -I/sandisk/samba-3.0.22/source/include -I/sandisk/samba-3.0.22/source/ubiqx ...

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...Checking installer requirements...Checking operating system version: must be 5.10.Actual 5.11 Failed <<<<Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at ...