I am acquiring a Sun X4200 server with two dual core AMD processors running Solaris 10 x86.Due to a significant delay in delivery sun is offering to throw in the 2nd processor for free. I would like to take them up on it but our application vendor says we will owe them another godzillion ...

helloim trying to disable ipv6 for all the servicesand im wondering if i have to configure every service to run only on ipv4or can i unload some modules? or some other way?i was thinking on modunload -i [id of ip6 and tcp6]but this gives me the error:can't unload the module: Device busyi try ...

I am looking for help setting up docbook on solaris x86I have a sample sgml file named article.sgml (see link) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/examples-docbook-ar ticle.html#AEN3458I have in my environment variables:SGML_ROOT=/usr/share/sgml ...

When I have a fresh installation of Solaris 10 SPARC, is any zone created? I need to install Oracle 10gR2 and documentation mentiones that I need to use the global zone? Is this global zone created by default?

Hello!I installed Solaris for Windows onto a Windows computer. By default, the computer only starts in Solaris now. Is it possible for me to restart in Windows? If so, can you tell me how to do so?Verna

Hello,I am looking to install another operating system on my computer in addition to windows. I have heard many good things about other O/S's and I am curious as to how Solaris compares to the various UNIX and Linux distributions and what kinds of programs are available for Solaris. Thank ...

Hi Alldoes sun have an equivalent to the chpasswd in linux?

Please can someone help to change the Ip address on my Solaris 10.A straight forward one.Thanks

Hello, we have purchased 5 new Sun machines (ultra 45) with preinstalled software. All of them hanged at the same point,detected locales, graphical card, configured network settings, obstained IP from dhcp server and then inside Solaris Preinstall Console it hangs for more then 12 hours ...

I have the following disk:AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c1t0d0 <FUJITSU cyl 14120 alt 2 hd 24 sec 423> /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/sd@0,0Layed out as such:partition> printCurrent partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 14120 + 2 (reserved cylinders)PartTagFlagCylinders ...

Since ZFS is already able to correct errors, would using RAID specific hard drives like Western Digital RE drives or Seagate ES drives that limit error recovery time be necessary? Would it be safe to use regular hard drive in a RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 array?

I have a Tyan motherboard x86 box with Sol 10u2 installed. There are 8x1GB RAM chips installed, and the BIOS recognizes all 8GB on boot. However, when Solaris boots and runs, it only sees 4GB in the system........?

Is there a "How to" document to configure the Solaris 10 kerberos client to authenticated to Windows 2003 Active Directory for ssh, telnet, ftp...etc. I am currently using LDAP client to athenticate against Sunone Directory server which is being syncronized with Sunone Identity Sync for Window ...

What is the best way update Solaris 10 everytime a new update become available on existing Solaris 10 servers?

I am trying to install Solaris 10 from scratch have a SUN box and need assistance on creating the CD Rom from iso files that I have down loaded...

I have posted once before but did not have the screen dump information when I tried various solutions. I am great with PC's and beginning an education in Deskside Support. I obtained this machine, a Sun Ultra 5, in hopes of gaining some UNIX experience and knowledge. Right now I am having ...

HiThe resolution to resolve the changes this year to DST is to apply the following:Sparc:122032-01 and 119689-07x86:122033-01 and 121208-03My systems have 122032 installed but not 119689 is this sufficient? or do I need both patches installed to ensure everything works ...

Hello,is there any way to set interface properties in a zone definition?In my case I want to set the zone's interface in the deprecated state.While I can do this from the global zone (ifconfig ce0:3 deprecated) without problems, I would like to ensure that the interface is in that state if the ...

Hi,I have downloaded file sol-10-u3-companion-ga-iso.zip in sun site for install solaris machine (virtual machine).with winzip I have open the file and then I have join iso file in my virtual machine, but the system don't start.Is the image iso ...

HiWe have a software application, and a potential use requires a single process to be able to access at least 20Gbytes of ram.Currently, this is running on a 32 bit sparc/Solaris 8 install.If we get a big box, lots of memory, and install 64bit Solaris 10, can a single process see 20+Gbytes?(I ...

On a running system, is there a way to identify the type of the SCSI HBA connected to the system wether the built-in or the cards using Solaris commands? or if not possible using Solaris commands is it possible to get the type then lookup that type on sun.com ?

Due to heavy load at peak times my web server and other processes often runs out of memory and system starting swapping and became unresponsive.Other os kernels (like Linux, FreeBSD) OOM (out-of-memory) process killer just kills such processes and system can handle such peak times.As shown in ...

How to check the current OBP from a running Solaris instance?Best

I installed Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade last month, and have used Sun Update Manager to patch my system regularly. Now, my / partition is 92% full:Filesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s06196110 5612522 ...

I just intsalled solaris 10 and I am now confused as to what the first boot up wants as far as my Login and password. Please help someone, this is a first time user and I dont know what im trying to put into this blank.Thanks, Tastey

Hi Allsomething i have noticed when rebboting a zone the zone id get incremented by one each time.Why?when you rebbot the whole machine the zone id then is reset back to 1?why?where is the zone id stored?

Is it possible to configure VLAN inerfaces on aggregated (LACP active) bge interfaces using Solaris 10 11/06?Aggregated interface without VLANS work, VLANS on single BGE interfaced work, VLAN+AGGR not working - Cisco Catalyst show that LACP not activatedI'm using SunFire v240 on one side and ...

Hi,Is it possible to monitor which files are being modified in Solaris within an application?For example Windows provides hooking mechanism and once you call the required system calls, you become able to capture file system events in real-time. In fact, real-time virus protection applications ...

Upgrade fails because the san disks can not be mounted. If I comment out the vfstab entries. The upgrade fails to happen because the zones are installed on the san disks.I am using the emulex lpfc driver and emc powerware. I have tried editing the vfstab and pointing the mount points to the ...

Hello Everyone,I installed solaris 10 OS 01/06 in my laptop ASUS A8JN and it works fine. My concern is how to make my NIC Realtek 8168/8111 work. Is there any available driver for this NIC? What is the site?I already tried to put the vendor and device IDs of this NIC in ...

Currently we are making use of Solaris 10 06/06 for our product testing but we are planning to move to Solaris 10 11/06. We want to know whether Solaris 10 11/06 is a cluster patch or a complete OS

Can anyone tell me where I can download sfpCompanion.pl?

I have just installed Solaris 10 11/06 on an old E250 server and cannot clear the volfs service.Anyone else come across an issue on this platform, it appears to work OK on my other Sun servers:jupiter# svcs -l /system/filesystem/volfsfmri svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:defaultname Volume ...

Hi all,We are testing the I/O performance on a V490 conected to a SE 3310 SCSI storage array as we are experiencing a slow I/O. The test used the format command with analyze -> read option on the disk, and by watching the iostat we got around 70 MBytes/Sec of read performance, knowing that ...

Hello,I have a root mirror which I understand that root swap and var cannot be used at zfs file systems at this time.I also have /export/home and apps mirrored with Disk Suite. How do I convert these mirrors to ZFS filesystems?Thanks,Doug

Can anyone direct me to documentation regarding SATA Chip-set support for Solaris 10, on X86 HW ?Thanks...

you may think this problem is more related to Linux forum.. but i feel this is right place for this..i have solaris 10 and Fedora core 6..i'm currently in FC 6.trying to mount ufs partition of solaris on linux..[root@localhost ]# uname -aLinux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon ...

you may think this problem is more related to Linux forum.. but i feel this is right place for this..i have solaris 10 and Fedora core 6..i'm currently in FC 6.trying to mount ufs partition of solaris on linux..[root@localhost ]# uname -aLinux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon ...

Hi,I am relatively new with Solaris so I hope this is something simple. I just installed Solaris 10 11/06 with the `Secure By Default` option. From the command line I can use dig and nslookup to resolve external web sites fine, but if I try to use the update conection manager (desktop), mozilla ...

Is there anyway to use a files content as input for the md5-sparc command?For example: ls -Rap /usr/bin > test and then use the test file to run the md5-sparc to assign signatures to the files located in the test file.

Hello,Can please anyone tell me that what are the packages and patches that has to be present in the Sun Solaris 10 64bit spaarc for installing Oracle 10.2.0.1.0.Please explain.Thanks and Regards,Vels.g.s.

I need a file to be hidden and not visible to others, even to read as it has passwords hardcoded. how can i go and set this in solaris 10?

Over the summer, as my parents got high speed internet, I realized that Solaris was free & decided to give it a go. However, I had no *nix experience at the time & went on with Linux instead.After about 6 months with using Linux & taking a java programming class in high school, ...

When I created a new account, management tool told me that the creation is not completed successfully. The account is created. But I cannot logon with the new account. The problem is home directory is not created correctly. I have to create the home directory by hand and change owner and group ...

Hi, everyone:Is there a way that I can have Java desktop or CDE when I remotely logoned with XWin32?

hi everyone,I'm totally new to Solaris. As an enthusiast, I wants to install Solaris 10 on my Win XP PC's 2nd Hard Drive(40GB, empty) from Solaris 10 DVD.I need help from how to format 2nd Hard Drive to how can I configure the PC so it asks me which OS to load every time.I will highly ...

Is there any way to retrieve the #of on line processors of the machine running in a non global zone with resource pool ?sysconf does not return this value. In fact this is an excerpt of the man:"If the caller is in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, ...

Hi Team ,I am totally confused while seeing the swap space in df -h output. It shows 34 GB. But in format output it shows only 9.77 GB. Please clarify this doubt.format output:===========partition> printCurrent partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 65533 + 2 (reserved ...

I installed Solaris 10 on a Dell Dimension 3000 on my home network. It took my 3 days to finally figure out that I had to make changes to my /etc/driver.alias file but I finally got my integrated Intel pro/100 nic to work.Now I can ping my DSL gateway and I can ping the other 'Windows' ...

Hi,I'm running 11/06 x86 on a 40gb ide drive. Also in the same box is a 250GB sata drive running xp with 90GB unpartitioned.I want to format that 90gb as a solaris file system... I looked in dev/dsk and the drive is there but when I run format the drive is not found? can somebody please ...