Clean Solaris 10 x86 11/06 install with Trusted Extensions installed. Using the tools in the "trusted extensions" folder of the application manager I've created a "PUBLIC" zone with a matching PUBLIC label (default label_encodings file), configured and installed it, no problems. When I try to ...

(Note: I also posted a similar message to the Sys Admin Best Practices discussion forum., being unsure of the most appropriate forum for this post)The Subject in that forum was: Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2.0 nddconfig svc:/milestone/multi-user:default Running the Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2.0 ...

i have a couple of problems...i'm new to Sun Solaris and i need to figure these things out:• Installing Onboard LAN (Nvidia nForce 410 chipset)• installing Onboard Audio (SoundMax)• Installing my Router default IP and DHCP...

Hello,I just installed sol 10 11/06, and I need the imagemagick and xpm libraries that are supposidely on the companion dvd. Which package(s) are these libraries in? I don't want to install all the packages on the dvd. Is there a site where descriptions of all the packages on the dvd are ...

Hello. I am rather new at using Solaris and I'm already having trouble installing it, and this is what I did:I selected "Download Solaris 10" from the menu on the homepage, and I chose to download the CD version using x86 CPU for Windows. It was going smoothly at the beginning - I have all of ...

Hi All ,Please provide the Standardized document for Hardening the Solaris 10 Operating Environment.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Milestone service is seems to be offline.I have 02/05 release of solaris 10.But many times i have face this problem,but no solution found.Please guide me how to solve this problem.regards..Sunny

Hello all..I am new to solaris and , i just installed Solaris 10 on a Sparc machine V250. Now i need to install TOP command, so i downlaoded the application, and when i try this, i get error message..# pwd/usr/top/top-3.5.1# pkgadd top-3.5.1pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in ...

I have created a script to auto startup and shutdown oracle database service on Solaris. The script was created as /etc/init.d/dbora. Then I link it to /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc0.d. Then I shutdown Solaris server and reboots again. The auto script didn't work. I tried manually executed dbora ...

Hi all!I am a solaris newbie and I am trying for a couple of days now, to install networks drivers on two i386 systems. One of them is the netgear and the other is a via rhineII. I've been following directions from: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/but when I run this ...

HiDoes someone solved this problem?pkgrm: ERROR: unable to open temporary contents file image(errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable)thanks for your supportcheers

I tried it with loopback mounts.global zone /export/home is loopback mounted to /export/zones/zone1/root/export/homeand to /export/zones/zone2/root/export/homewith the zonecfg command. Now booting zone1 works, zone2 exits with zoneadm: zone 'zone2': "/usr/lib/fs/lofs/mount /export/home ...

Hello,I just upgraded a Sun Blade from Solaris 8 to 10. I have a rather old image display application (ftp://east.la.asu.edu/pub/software/pw-5.23.tar.gz) that is absolutely essential for my work, and it will not run under Solaris 10, either on the CDE or jave/gnome desktops. The executable for ...

Hi, I am planning for solaris10 part 1 certification , can any one please help me in getting practice questions and the preferred book/guide to study ..to succeed the exam .. i am currently working on solaris 10 , but need to prepare more from the book and practice the questions ..any one can ...

How do you turn on color in BASH on Solaris 10? On the Mac you set CLICOLOR=1.How is this done in Solaris?Thanks.

/etc/pam.conf uses other services by default , how to add sshd service in the pam.conf. This used to work in Solaris 9 but does not work in Solaris 10.ThanksGopi

I currently have sendmail turned off on my Solaris 10 server while I am setting up Nagios monitoring. Currently there are hundreds of false alerts generated by the Nagios account that I don't want to be emailed out. The problem is, I can go into /var/spool/mqueue and delete any spooled email ...

Hello. I am a student preparing for a career in Deskside Support. I recently purchased a Sun Ultra 5, so I could increase my experience with UNIX / LINUX. When the system powers up it goes through what seems to be a normal boot process and then keeps repeating the below error: SUN, hme0 : No ...

I need to let a nonroot user mount and unmount drives. It is neccessary i use RBAC, cant use SUDO or whatever.Ive looked up loads of stuff on this, including: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7667/sam0213c/0213c.htmI have tried defining a specific profile for mounting by adding the following ...

I want to add auto startup and shutdown script to Solaris 10's legacy services as they run in Solaris 9 or in Linux.To make this work, I created the crontrol script in /etc/init.d/dbora as root user.Then link it to /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc2.d directories. rc0.d is for shutdown and rc2.d is for ...

What happened to these services that were in /etc/inetd.conf and are not now in SMF? tftp, netstat, dummy, ufsd, cachefsd, dtspcd, sadmind, kcms_server, amiserv, rpc.cmsd, name, systat, rpc.ttbdserverd, fs, printer,rpc.smserverd.

Does anyone know if the zones halt when a shutdown command is issued to the global zone. Or is a shutdown issued to each of the local zones and the global waits until the local zones complete shutdown?

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Hi,I followed the howto to create myzone after providing the hostname i want to go to next screen.But pressing F2 key does not work.please help.regardsasutosh

Hi,command fails:# zpool add -f dbmirror spare c0t4d0 c0t5d0cannot open 'spare': no such device in /dev/dskmust be a full path or shorthand device nameI am using Solaris 10 x86. thanksasutoshMessage was edited by: ...

Hi All -when I start my application process, it just hangs there. On running truss, I see that it is in a sleep mode waiting on pollsys. The process has to open and then bind to a tcp socket. I suspect that it is waiting for the bind to happen. Any ideas on how to set this right or what needs ...

I cannot get an Xnest server to start under CDE or java/gnome on a Sun Blade running Solaris 10. I keep getting errors related like:Fatal server error:Failed to establish all listening socketsMy $DISPLAY is :0.0I have tried many commands including:Xnews :1.0 -depth 8 -class Pseudocolorto no ...

The application/process works well on solaris9. But after migrating to solaris10, sometimes it will core dump. After checking core file by dbx, it is found that this core file is caused by SIGKILL. As I guess, normally SIGKILL will not cause core dump, instead, it will cause the application ...

Hi,I'm currently using win xp and i want to use solaris 10 using vmware.Can anyone help what to do? where to download?tx,raiser

Is there any way to run Windows software with the Solaris OS? Can this be done at all?

Hi,I need to change the settings for the Australia/Perth timezone. The local government implemented daylight savings on 3rd December 2006 and is trialling it for three years. I need to have the zoneinfo for Australia/Perth one hour ahead of what it is.From what I have found, there is not a ...

HiI'm flamboozled with something that doesn't seem like it should be so hard on a Solaris 10 11/06 webserver with sparse zones...I have 4 different subnets:A.B.C.0/29, D.E.F.0/29, G.H.I.0/29 etc....Only one of them currently has a gateway address, and I put the global's IP there leaving 4 ...

Dear All,I am trying to upgrade OS 8 to OS 10. I got the following message when clicking on the 'installer' to install:/cdrom/sol_10_106_x86/.install/install_common: /cdrom/sol_10_106_x86/.install/JRE/bin/java: CANNOT execute.Any help would be much ...

Hi,I installed Solaris 10 on my x86 machine and managed to get it (eventually!) configured with a static IP etc.I then began the install of Sun Ray Server Software and the first part went well. I then performed a reboot as requested using sync;sync;init 6As this occured i spotted an error ...

Hello, this newbie got today his Sun Ultra 40, 4*2214, 8Gb, 3*250GB. It started up with a lot of questions, I filled it in and there is was! But the webbrowser does not work yet, no ping also. Therefore: first I have to read the documentation. That will take a while.How to register my Sun Ultra ...

Hello,I was wondering if anyone on here has tried combining AoE (ATA over Ethernet) with ZFS on a sparc solaris 10 server?I was wondering if I could simplify my installation by plugging in a Coraid shelf (SR1520 - http://www.coraid.com/pdfs/datasheets/EtherDriveSR1520.pdf) directly to an open ...

Hi all,I currently use a Dynex DX-UBDB9 adapter, which is a Prolific PL-2303 based USB-to-Serial adaptor and it seem to be working OK in almost all situations (with Sun Ray, my laptop, and so on).I put it in the USB port #0 on a Sun Fire V240, and the server saw it:# cd /dev/cua# ls -altotal ...

Im sorry if this isnt the right place to put this message.The server starts fine, then when on a sunray client i only see a purplish screen with a sun logo top left then i see a open lock with a red cross.No login screen appears, i can right click and i will get a menu with logout and ...

I'n new to solaris so excuse me if this doesn't make sense. I need more space on my root partition (/dev/dsk/c0d0s0). I noticed that /exports/home (/dev/dsk/c0d0s7) which I don't seem to use at all, was given most of my disk space during install, is there a way to repartition the system ...

Hi,Just tried to clone a zone (the prerequisite steps worked fine, editing ofthe new master is completed), but our version of zoneadm doesn't seemto know "clone". $ uname -aSunOS olcaprd3 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200Am I on a release too old? I do have zfs, so should ...

Hello,I'm new to Solaris 10 environment and trying to write a simple program to access a specific memory location (0x7FFF00000000). Of course, the OS gives seg fault and doesn't let me access the location. I just want a static memory location to be used as a buffer between programs running on ...

Sorry for a seemingly trivial question. Just feel very frustrated that i cannot get a very simple answer from the overly complicated Sun web sites. Got official email telling me to download the Solaris 10 update. Of course i logged in, and it is useless and does not work [ as usual ]. If you do ...

I am new with Solaris.I have a sun box Solaris 8.Is there a system backup similar to HPUX make_tape_recovery or AIX mksysb? If not, how can I save the os to tape, and verify it is valid (i.e. restore to same or DEV server.)

Hi Team ,The cron messages are not writing in /var/mail/root instead of the cron messages are writing in /var/spool/clientmqueue. There are lot of messages are accumulated in /var/spool/clientmqueue. Due to this the root file system getting increase. Please clarify the problem.Regards,R. Rajesh ...

Hi Team ,Please clarify, how we can identify the Logical disk name in Solaris OK prompt (like c0t0d0) using the physical name.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Hello,Bit of a newcomer to solaris.Have installed on a Sunfire V240 and established that it is booting in 64-bit mode.Have noticed that both 32 and 64-bit versions of the version 1.5 j2se are installed.Will Java apps use the 64-bit JVM by default or do I need to make a change for this to ...

I want to assign a tape drive in non-global zone in postinstall script. I can run zonecfg with a command-file, but don't know how to run zonecfg to add device in a whole command-line. The command-line fails to run:# zonecfg -z sun1 add device set match=/dev/rmt/173bsyntax error at ...

System is solaris 9 sparc. Patches are applied. I use 0cn as device. But I could not get even 50GB data backed up properly without getting end of drive errors. Any ideas? Or is it normal because assumed compression ratio is 2:1. Can you suggest any configuration through

On occasion I'll see really high processor utilization numbers for hours on end. It is one instance of "iiimd". I've been googling around, but haven't really found anything that explains what it is, other than it might have something to do with some international setting. Sometimes it just ...

HiI'm a 3D modeler and i'm curious if it's possible to run Autodesk Mayafor linux with LXrun under Solaris 10 ?Is there any 3D modeling software for Solaris 10, I see a great potentialFor this OS with fast 3D rendering.