cannot run zpool (zfs feature) command in Solaris 10 6/06

216 byte By chan81 at 2007-11-26 11:53:04
Hi, I couldnt run ZPOOL command in Solaris 10 6/06. It said command not found. May I know what should I do? My Solaris 10 version provide Solaris zoning features, but no ZFS feature provided.How?

how to get Solaris 10 Companion CD

82 byte By TAB at 2007-11-26 11:53:12
Where can I dowload the Companion CD for Solaris 10 sparc and x86.TX

encryption

113 byte By depeo at 2007-11-26 11:53:15
Hi!Is there a encryption software like cryptoloop/LUKS/pgpdisk for Solaris to encrypt a whole disk?

syslogd and SCTP association

839 byte By kooladi at 2007-11-26 11:53:16
We are running solaris 10 and our own implementation of SCTP.We use syslogd to log messages which gets stored in /var/log. Now, since the files may grow out of size, every night at 3:35, we have a cron job that renames the log files ile logfile.txt to logfile1.txt and so on.The cron job also ...

usb key

867 byte By redofr at 2007-11-26 11:53:27
helloi got these two lines from from /var/adm/message.pcfs: [ID 269451 kern.info] NOTICE: pcfs: FAT signature error [ID 132729 kern.info] NOTICE: pcfs: illegal disk formatiostat -En give .Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure ...

cdrecord

223 byte By redofr at 2007-11-26 11:53:29
helloi was using a cdrw under win xp and i could read it with Solaris .However i decided to add one file by usingcdrecord under Solaris 10 and now i cannot read my cdrw .Any ideas ?

SVM - metainit "invalid unit" error

2115 byte By Nanard78 at 2007-11-26 11:54:51
Hi guru,I am working on Solaris 10 servers with containers (Small zone) and I want to mirror the data in some file-system in containers between 2 SunStorEdge 3510 and without umounting file-systems.So I try to mirror soft partitions between old and new 3510 but I have an error message "invalid ...

Password requirements

309 byte By DCMetroSunAdmin at 2007-11-26 11:54:54
How do you configure account passwords on Solaris systems to follow the requirements below:- Two lowercase letters- Two uppercase letters- Two numbers-Two special charactersOr is there a free sun package that help configure solaris systems to meet these ...

Solaris Certification

256 byte By Swetha83 at 2007-11-26 11:55:21
I have been working on Solaris since last 1 year. I would like to peruse solaris certification and want some documents and preperation material. Can some one suggest me which books(preferably free) shud I follow to get through the Test.Thanks

poor ufs filesystem performance on T2000

854 byte By bennett.schneider at 2007-11-26 11:55:27
We have two different Solaris 10 machines. One is a T2000 and one is a Dell desktop machine (AMD64). Both are running Solaris 10. We have an application that does a large number of sequential reads, and what I'm seeing is fairly miserable performance on the T2000 from the ufs filesystems on ...

Jboss compatibility with Solaris 10

139 byte By mmumdzie at 2007-11-26 11:56:01
Hi,Did anyone install Jboss 3.2.6. on Solaris 10? I still did not decide whether should I install this version or the newest.

PICL configuration missing for T2000

2506 byte By kpmcnamee at 2007-11-26 11:56:14
Hi,we recently tested removing power from one half of a T2000, but no alarms/errors were reported. The following output can be seen:# /usr/sbin/prtpicl|grep -i ps pseudo (devctl, 8100000820) Compare this to a SUNW,Sun-Fire-880# /usr/sbin/prtpicl |grep -i ps PS0_PR_SENSOR (gpio, 80000001e7) ...

10 on E3500

49 byte By windowssucks at 2007-11-26 11:56:46
Anyone tried it? Does it work on an E3500?

Zone filesystem create problem

2462 byte By unixsa at 2007-11-26 11:56:49
Hello, I've got an issue that hopefully someone can help me with. I have 2 identically configured e250s (both were jumpstarted the same) and I'm trying to create a duplicate zone on both systems. I wrote a config file for zonecfg that adds 3 lofs mounts. On one system if works just fine and ...

What difference between Unix and Linux?

97 byte By 9214819473610663217 at 2007-11-26 11:57:41
What difference between Unix and Linux?and I want to know Solaris is Unix or Linux?

Enable telnet service on solaris 10

567 byte By sharmk at 2007-11-26 11:57:45
Hi,Kindly help me in enabling telnet sevice on solaris 10. When I try to enable telnet with the following comand; it gives;# svcadm enable telnet# svcs -xv telnetsvc:/network/telnet:default (Telnet server) State: uninitialized since Mon Dec 04 03:18:11 2006Reason: Restarter ...

File descriptors

247 byte By smyles at 2007-11-26 11:57:57
Hi,Is there any possible negative effect in allowing a user (through a project) to have the maximum hard limit for file descriptors available to him? eg project.max-file-descriptor = 65536.Is there a performance impact?

Open ports on Solaris 10

1748 byte By mmumdzie at 2007-11-26 11:59:42
Hello,I was installing jboss 3.2.6. on Solaris 10. After installation jboss could not start as some of the needed ports were already opened. I tried to evaluate who uses the open ports with following steps:1) Jboss reports that he need three ports which are already in use: 1098, 4444, 8080.2) I ...

unable to remove a package in a zone

817 byte By latp2006 at 2007-11-26 11:59:48
in a zone (whole root), i'm trying to uninstall a package, but failed:## Verifying package <APSTC-ganglia-gmetad> dependencies in global zone## Processing package information.## Removing pathnames in class <manifest>svc:/application/ganglia/gmetad:default remains enabled; ...

Solaris 10 Ethernet & Serial Board Details

478 byte By sandeepkumargarg at 2007-11-26 11:59:50
On Solaris 10 x86 Machine with update 2 OS VersionIs there any command or way to get Hardware Details like Ethernet Board & Serial Board, I used prtconf -V | grep -i ngeto get Network details but i could not find any way to get External Ethernet Board vendor or ethernet board nameSimilar is ...

How to add patches to Solaris 10, seek help!

902 byte By duke0001 at 2007-11-26 12:00:32
I want to add two patches to Sun sparc 64 bit machine with Solaris 10 on it. The patch numbers are: 3761843 and 4163208. I went to SunSolve and couldn't find patches through patch finder. I downloaded patches from matalink. Then I use code like this:unzip PATCH_ID3761843 generated a cipo file ...

Newby: I can ping my fresh installed Solaris 10, but I can not ping from it

581 byte By Vlad72 at 2007-11-26 12:00:39
I have a fresh Solaris 10 installed, i can ping it, but I can not ping anything from within the server!!!!!!!#ifconfig -alo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBAK,RUNNING,MULTICST,IPv4,VIRTUAL mtu 8232 index 1inet 127.0.01 netmask ff000000eri0: flags=1000803=<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu ...

Time Conversion

1178 byte By Portal at 2007-11-26 12:01:13
Our Sun Solaris 10 machine is configured to use Hong Kong TimeZone and we are necessary to convert the currect time from HK time to NY Eastern Time in our application. Normally, we used the following codes to do so on Sun Solaris 8 and it works:export ...

failed to configure ipv4 dhcp interface(s): bge0

208 byte By deadnburied at 2007-11-26 12:01:25
Help!!Dual booting a Latitude D600 with XP ( I know!!)After using XP and returning to Sol10 the bge0 interface fails to configure?Why, and how do I get the interface working again?

Solaris 10 SoftwareGroups

516 byte By davsanto at 2007-11-26 12:01:27
Is there a concise document etc.. that indicates what features are available in each solaris 10 software group? For exampleCore System Support Software Group - Contains the packages that provide the minimum code that is required to boot and run a networked Solaris system.What are these ...

A newbie questoin reg. Sun servers

401 byte By Sakarp at 2007-11-26 12:01:33
Hi all.Iam a newbie to Solaris, I would like to practice Solaris OS but i dont have a SPARC server so i have to install on my PC(Intel). How much does it differs from SPARC ? do the commands also vary? and if I would like to buy a old SPARC server which is a good one for solaris 10 and whats ...

Animated Wallpaper for Christmas?

90 byte By etcetera at 2007-11-26 12:01:49
Where can I find some "Christmas" animated Wallpaper?This is for Solaris 10.

Solaris 10 login problem

398 byte By duke0001 at 2007-11-26 12:01:50
I isntalled solaris 10 on Sun sparc 64 bit machine. I can login as root user through GUI or console. After I created an Oracle user, I only can login as that user from console window. I tried to login from GUI (CED) window, it failed. Anyone know about this, please help me to figure out the ...

FTP buffer overflow in Solaris 10

284 byte By bravobritto at 2007-11-26 12:02:35
ftp session starts but it is not transferring files. The problem is showing in machines running Solaris 10. It was perfectly working till last week. All of a sudden one-by-one servers started showing this problem. Also let me know how to view ftp logs separately ?Thanks

`ifconfig -a` not showing interface after reboot.

424 byte By russell.wood at 2007-11-26 12:04:07
I've installed the driver SFE multiple times before and its all worked fine. But this time around `ifconfig -a` does not show the interface after reboot.If I `ifconfig sfe0 plumb` it comes up and I can se it, but I have to keep doing that after reboot.If I add `/etc/dhcp.sfe0` then I get error ...

CDE session not seen fully

340 byte By srikant72 at 2007-11-26 12:04:46
I recently installed Solaris 10 06/06 . I have set up my machine as dual boot, use Samsung 19 inch monitor. When I log into my CDE session, I do not see the work area at the bottom. Any idea as to why the work area is not see, Also in the Java session, is there a task bar, I do not see that at ...

kstat question

227 byte By gogo543 at 2007-11-26 12:06:15
i am looking for the kstat list which obviously is a huge list.i am just wondering if anyone know which value i should check if i want to use kstat to check disk read and write per second.Thanks in advance.

to much space assigned to /export/home

311 byte By TheEspa at 2007-11-26 12:22:49
Greetings allMe being a Solaris 10 newbie admin , I went with the default settings and now have noticed that I have way to much space assigned to /export/home.Is their an easy way to give this space back to the root file system ? Am I able to do this using format ? Solaris 10 ...

ZFS - SCSI, strange interaction.

6537 byte By nxta at 2007-11-26 12:24:20
Hello group.I have a mystery on my hands. I've inherited, for a lack of better word,a number of already installed and used production systems running Solaris10 x86.On one of them, the need arised to reconfigure a zpool. Scenario:root@postmaster:~# uname -aSunOS postmaster 5.10 ...

Non-Global Zones and startup scripts

619 byte By m_keightleya at 2007-11-26 12:24:56
Created a non-global zone on a Solaris 10 box.Boots up ok and I can login with zlogin.It doesn't seem to run any of the scripts in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rc3.dI know Solaris 10 uses "Service Management Facility" for most services now,but could still run legacy scripts in /etc/init.d ?Also I can't ...

How to configure DNS server

148 byte By ingravidoa at 2007-11-26 12:25:14
Hello. I am new to Solaris 10 and I need to configure a DNS server on my Solaris 10 machine.Need some help.Thanks a lot!

Sun Fire T2000 boot from RAID

872 byte By mpecha at 2007-11-26 12:26:03
hi,Sun Fire T2000, firmware 6.1.12LSI 1064E firmware 1.0.40hardware RAID for internal diskssometimes server boots with trap, if :it boots from raid and you tring to break and boot from cdrom:{0} ok boot cdromBoot device: /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@8/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: Loading ...

Samba Question

333 byte By Sakarpa at 2007-11-26 12:26:54
1,I would like to install Solaris 10 on my laptop, Can i configure Samba in such a way that i can see the Solaris partition on Windows partition which is on the same system.2, Can I install Solaris 10 and 9 on the same system? , if its possible can i configure one as a NIS master and the other ...

how to reclaim space from swap -a

516 byte By stephen_ba at 2007-11-26 12:27:32
How can I reverse swap -a ?I needed more swap space for Studio 11 and created that with mkfile and then swap -a.Unfortunately, I made the mistake of putting it in /varand now / has run out of space for updates. swap -l shows me only the original swap slice (increased by the mkfile) so even ...

Installation Woes

1102 byte By mrdav1ea at 2007-11-26 12:29:52
Hello,I am a computer manufacturer and am open to new o/s's besides windows. I went thru the dvd installation of solaris 10. It was relatively painless until the system restarted after it was 100% done installation. The gui booted and asked for cd/dvd solaris 10 software 5. Hello? What the ...

legacy rcS.d script timeout

1103 byte By MichaelMyersa at 2007-11-26 12:31:20
Folks,I have a legacy script in /etc/rcS.d which can take quite a while to complete (over two hours).During it's run we're getting this logged on the console 30 minutes (1800 seconds) into the script running:Dec 13 13:11:49 svc.startd[7]: svc:/milestone/single-user:default: Method or service ...

Two net cards on Solaris 10

1003 byte By wj-leea at 2007-11-26 12:34:49
Hi all:i installed two 3com network cards on the computer (3c905B and 3c905C, all supported by Solaris 10). When i try to install Solaris 10, the pc hangs up with these messages:WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci925,1234@7,2 (uhci0): No SOF interruptshave been received, this USB UHCI host controller is ...

Need help configuring Network Access

1507 byte By Yandiela at 2007-11-26 12:36:27
Hi!First than all, I have to admit than I'm a newbie on Solaris 10. Currently I'm running Solaris 10 x86 on a Virtual Machine (VMware Server) on a Windows Server 2003 Computer. I'm trying to access network services from Solaris 10 such as Telnet, FTP, and HTTP and I'm getting the following ...

Configuring Metadevices

8142 byte By sjames27a at 2007-11-26 12:37:24
I have a Solaris System (v240) running 5.9. The file system is corrupted and there is no backup to restore from. The plan is to install Solaris 10 on this system.Once we have installed Solaris 10 on this system, partitioning has to be done. I have not done partitioning before on a Sun box. I ...

SVM and format

591 byte By kjdavidsona at 2007-11-26 12:42:43
I have a system where the disks are mirrored using SVM - this was set up at install time using a custom Jumpstart profile.When viewing the disks with the format utility, I see the following whenever I select a disk:-Specify disk (enter its number): 0selecting c1t0d0[disk ...

Persistant directories under /var/run

655 byte By Azrael808a at 2007-11-26 12:44:45
Hi All,Nice and simple one (I hope). I'm running a clustered MySQL service on two nodes, and I'd like for the pid files to be stored under /var/run.As this service runs as the mysql user, I have had to create a subdirectory /var/run/mysql owned by this user - however, this vanishes after a ...

Solaris 10 login problem. need guru's help.

554 byte By duke0001a at 2007-11-26 12:44:52
I posted the same question a few days ago. Mor than 150 persons reviewd it. But noone could answer my question. Is there real expert or guru out there to help me out? Here is the question again.I isntalled solaris 10 on Sun sparc 64 bit machine. I can login as root user through GUI or console. ...

Emacs package ?

40 byte By etceteraa at 2007-11-26 12:46:01
Where can I get an Emacs package?

svc:/system/device/fc-fabric

153 byte By russell.wooda at 2007-11-26 12:47:18
Why, when I disable this service, does my system boot into System Maintenance mode?I don't have anything related to Fiber in my PC at all.

Can not login console of non-global zone after upgrading to solaris 10 u3

1677 byte By wangzha at 2007-11-26 12:48:17
HiI can not login console of non-global zone after upgrading to solaris 10 x86 u3.# zlogin -C myzone[Connected to zone 'myzone' console][NOTICE: Zone readied][NOTICE: Zone booting up][NOTICE: Zone rebooting]~.[Connection to zone 'myzone' console closed]# # zlogin myzone[Connected to zone ...