After installing solaris 10 U 3 when it starts. The login prompt comes. Then it automatically tries to start X and the monitor starts blinking. Thereafter there is nothing i can do instead of restarting my computer.My concerns are as under.1. Is there a way to stop the solaris from ...

I have a Sun Blade with 2048 MB ram running Solaris 10. I performed a clean install of the 11/06 release last month. I allocated 6 GB for the / partition, 750 MB for swap (+ 150MB in a separate, stand-alone file using swap -a), 3GB for /export/home, and 27 GB in a large data area (/space). ...

Here is my situation...I have two seperate servers, each with a Postfix server in a zone. Right now both servers are booted and online, but I only use one of them at a time as the primary MTA. I basically want to make sure this zone setup is highly available...through any means possible.I have ...

I am using Solaris 10x861-How to get admintool to work. I was told to smc but nothing happens.I open a console then type smc then press enter.Where can I download the admintool only.2-How can I remote desktop Unix-Windows XP Pro and vice versa.(Step by step ...

Dear all,I've set up a Solairs machine, using the 'End User Group' install option, to try to minimise the amount of hardrive space occupied by installation.I've installed from "Sun Freeware" binary releases of Apache, PHP, MySql, and all works fine.However, the reason I used binaries over ...

Hi everyone,How can i install Solaris 10 11/06 and Windows Vista Ultimate Final Version on my notebook?I tried everything i know but it doesn't work. If i install solaris i can't run windows and if i install windows i can run solaris.Please help me. I need both.Thank ...

I am installing Solaris 10 /11/06 on a sunfire v210 with 6 gigs of mem. I usually only assign 2 gigs of swap but have heard conficting reports on how to configure swap. Is it (swap=2 x Mem)? because that would be 12 gigs of swap, that seems like over kill and a waste of disk ...

I have attempted to mount a D130 disk array attached to an E420R system running Solaris 10. This array has three drives installed an formatted. I would like to mount the three disks as one large storage partition. It seems to me that I want a concatenated stripe but I am not really sure.This is ...

I understand the management of the IPC recources on Solaris 10 has changed. Instead of /etc/system the IPC limits are now set in /etc/project, and the new concepts of project, task, zone, and pool are introduced.I am trying to get some understanding of these novelties and I have two ...

I am trying to create 22 zones using the following script. The zonemgr command is taken from the zonemgr help. The first argument is the name of a file with lines like the following:burpekk131.247.16.154 RootPassword1charlesn131.247.16.155 RootPassword2 begin script #!/usr/bin/bashFS=" "cat $1 ...

I use Orca to graph server activity on the Sun servers I administer. Often I notice from the Orca graphs that there is considerable activity on the servers overnight, but I don't know what processes are causing the activity. Is there a tool that I can use to write info to a log about all ...

I have to buy new hardware $$$ then buy a Vista license $$$ just to see some photos...this is serious. I am staying with Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet...this isnt a joke.

Is there a file system that can be used to share /home between Linux and Solaris?I'm planning to install Solaris 10 on my Opteron system this weekend to try it out. My searches regarding shared filesystems between Linux and Solaris have so far turned up, "Nope, can't be done." I'm hoping ...

Hi All,We are facing some svcs related issue with one of our machines. Some months back we have upgraded this machine from solaris 9 to solaris 10. Actually its giving the error like the one below and hung. When you say svcs -x its telling the below error. So we are forced to reboot the machine ...

I have a production server and sending ftp out off the server is not working. When i do ftp i get connection refused.

Hello,I had a system panic because the ufs-log file of a specific filesystem had reached his limit ? I thought the size of this file was static. And I found this in some documentation: "Continually flushed as it fills up"According to Sun support I have to add the following to /etc/systemset ...

Using the SMF facility, how would I move SSH and Network so that they are enabled in single user mode?

Hello,I'm speaking specifically about Solaris 10, and the qoute is from: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/index.jspI thought that Open Source meant that you could actually look at, and modify the source, as with Linux, or even Solaris 11, but I see no place where you can get the source base ...

Good day people.I have been very happy with Solaris zone technology until tonight.I have a fairly critical system with 3 zones + 1 dev zone configured on it. (64bit)I am trying to install patch 119043-09 to be able to install the latest KU update patch (118855-36), but it fails.All my zones are ...

I am a long-experienced (multiple platforms and multiple languages) developer who is getting started with Solaris.I am using Glade to do GTK UI development. I usually do Glade work under Linux.My Solaris 10 x86 did not come with the M4, Autoconf, and Automake packages (and the c compiler was ...

Hi I have a question on what is the best practice of working with solaris users and permissions. I'm using Solaris 10 and have created several users each with their home directory in /export/home. Then i have installed the sun webserver under /export/home/sun/webserver and i want all users to ...

Hi everybody!!!!I used to clon my servers using flar archives. I recently installed Solaris 10 11/06 on one server creating my flar archive.When I tried to install my other servers I have the following error.Error: 8 blocksError: 24 blocksError: 8 blocksError: sh: ./cc-client_cleanup: not ...

I need to tar all the files in my current dir (some are hidden files).when I issued the command "tar cvf temp1.tar *" , then extracted the tar, I couldnt find the hidden files.Can some one plz help me.. if I need to include any additional options while issueing tar command or any workaround is ...

Is there a Solaris 11x86?

I am totally new to Solaris. I have downloaded the 5 installation disks for Solaris 10 11/06 X86 and burned the CDs to do the installation. I want to install over a RedHat Linux 4 OS. However, when I boot the machine with the first Solaris 10 CD in the CD drive, the system still boots with the ...

I'm looking for migrating our current Java process from a Windows to a Unix platform.Can anyone provide a performance and stability comparison or point me to a white paper, which gives that comparison between Unix and Windows?Thanks.

Hi all,Can someone please help? I am trying to crossover to Solaris as I don't want to use "that other OS" anymore ;-) But need KDE as I have used it before.I have installed Solaris 10 successfully and I (think) I have installed the companion dvd contents to /opt/sfw.I have run the kde-dtlogin ...

Okkay this should be a very simple quesiton but somehow i cant seem to get the answer simply :( i've been searching google for a while now so please can any of the solaris guru tell me how we can set the java home on the OS level i.e. for all users etc when the log in i want the java home to ...

Hi.I dont really understand what is a problem, but when I try to use "whatis" or any other sort of help commands in terminal, I receive following error:/usr/dt/man/windex: No such file or directory/usr/dt/man: No such file or directory/usr/openwin/share/man/windex: No such file or directoryI ...

Hy i'm a french new user of solaris 10, please excuse my bad english first.this is my first problem.I have to install solaris 10 on Vmware but the screen resolution is to bloked on 800x600.then i looked for the configuration file maybe xorg.cong but there was not !please help to find a ...

I am trying to install Solaris 10 on various Ultra II based systems (Ultra 60, AXi etc) which have been running FreeBSD.Solaris 10 reports "No Disks Found"!Solaris 9 can be installed, after which Sol10 can see them, however this is inconvenient for those people who don't have Solaris 9 disks ...

I am new with Solaris. I would like to know... does programs for win work on the solaris platrofrm. I mean does my Oracle10 for winNT on dvd match to my new Solaris10?

Dear allI'm upgrade from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 and recently I meet one problem:In solaris 9, If I want to check the complete command for the running process, I could use /usr/ucb/ps -auxwwthen, the system could gives me everything.But in Solaris 10, I use the same command, but it seems that ...

Hi all,I add Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator to Sun Fire V210 system. I used console to install Solaris 10 on that machine; after the installation finished I tried to connect monitor to my Sun Fire V210 but its not working, it抯 showing a pink colored screen.The Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator ...

helloi m completely new to this os. can anyone let me know "how can i install solaris10 with winxp on second partion. is it as simple as installing two windows together. how much space will solaris require(i have only 40gb hard disk ).

Hi all !!I want to install a rsync server witn solaris 10, and can't configure smf to start the server.I have the old inetd.conf lines:rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/rsync rsyncd --daemonCan someone explain how I can to migrate this line to smf ?Thanks in ...

I've encountered this issue while installing Solaris 10 11/06 sparc on the following systems:Netra t1 100Netra 1400SunFire V880SunFire 280RI get a a panic on reboot after editing the /etc/vfstab to boot as mirrored devices. Havte noted the panic below. Did find this bug: ...

Seems like File Too Large happens whenever aggsize > 16m. Examples seem to show it working at much larger numbers: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223/6mlkidlho?a=viewa.out is build from foo.cbluczkie@sundev26 ddulai $ dtrace -s f.d -c a.out -xaggsize=1gdtrace: script 'f.d' matched 6 ...

I feel dumb asking this question especially since I think its due to my lack of knowledge with zones. I am using Solaris 10 with only a global zone, at least thats what I think? I ran a "zoneadm list" and only listed "global".I have downloaded uwc [yes I posted something similar on the JMS ...

i have installed Solaris Express, Community Release (dvd). My computer loaded windows. After reaboot this message came to the screen:GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. ...

oracle1:$> df -kFilesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s01800369 1592733 15362592%//proc 0000%/procfd 0000%/dev/fdmnttab 0000%/etc/mnttabswap142260840 14225681%/var/runswap14257363168 14225681%/tmp/dev/md/dsk/d28705501 627674 79907728%/u03/dev/md/dsk/d048379179 41453292 ...

How are you supposed to do a solaris upgrade? I have solaris 10 06/06 and I used smpatch to apply all patches, but it doesn't appear to have brought me up to 11/06 like I expected. I don't want to bother with a live upgrade, just want to keep it simple. I'm a linux user and this is like ...

Hi,I was trying to do an experiment. I patched one of our server because to comply with the DST 2007 Changes. Afterwards I removed the patches. I'm expecting that it will revert the changes but it didn't. I was thinking if i had to reboot the machine to see the changes. If it is, then why the ...

Hi I am trying to upgrade sun solaris 10 1 /06 to update 3i have 3 zones .however i get the following error. The Solaris Version (Solaris 10) on slice d10 (c1t0d0s0c1t1d0s0) cannot be upgraded.A file system listed in the file system table (vfstab) could notbe checked by fsck.All the stuff I ...

It has been more than 10 days now and I am still waiting for that Solaris 10 DVD kit. I still haven't received anything...beside the confirmation email. I am wondering now if you did really receive a Free Solaris10 DVD kit and in how many days? Anybody?Didnt you say in less than 10 days? Well ...

FYI,Once you install 118833-36 you cannot apply any further patches. Doing so will yield this message:"You must perform a reconfigure reboot before invoking any additional patch commands."According to Sun this is because of significant changes in libc. The method they use is sort of cool...they ...

Hi,I'm new to RBAC, I'm trying to set up a basic user, but which has the power to create and modify users (essentially permission to use useradd and usermod):# useradd -d /export/home/newuser1 -m -P "User Management" newuser1Which creates the user, and a cat of /etc/user_attr ...

Hello,I feel extremely unhappy to ask you the following.I bought recently a Sun Utra 40 M2. I thought that with NVIDA Quadro FX1500 one could have two monitors as there are two DVI-D 's to connect with two monitors.But today I heard from SUN support that Sun does not support two monitors under ...

I need to add some directories to root's PATH, so I've been reading up on /etc/default/login and /etc/default/su.I am at Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100.When I su, my PATH becomes /usr/sbin:/usr/bin which kind of makes sense (except that the SUPATH= line in /etc/default/su is commented out, and ...

Hi,Can anyone tell me the algorithm that Solaris uses for CPU Scheduling. I want to know the relation between Priority Queue and Run Queue. Can I write a small "C" test program to print both these values using some kstat counters?Any help would be greately appreciated.Thanks & ...