Iam having problems configuring internet access in Solaris 10? i populated the /etc/defaultrouter file with the gateway address, the /etc/resolv.conf file with the dns server addresses using the "nameserver" keyword. And still its not working. HOW to solve this problem.

Is there any way to run kdmconfig from the failsafe mode ?I need to config my monitor but dont know how. The login before dtlogin was too quick --(like 2 seconds )thanksJJ

Solaris 10 U3I have a zone which seems to be stuck in the shutting_down state.bullfrog(root):/#zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH0 globalrunning/5 bullfrogz3running/zones/bullfrogz39 bullfrogz4running/zones/bullfrogz4 10 bullfrogz1shutting_down /zones/bullfrogz1 11 ...

I installed Solaris 10 x86 fresh on a intel P4 system last week. I used to GUI autopatcher of the java console and yesterday it mentioned that i had to inspect patch 118855-36 and that it could not be installed automaticly. I started the console and after reading the readme i tried: patchadd ...

Hello,I installed Solaris 10 on a pentium machine and I cant use the arrow keys in the terminal window.Please help.Thank you.

I have a Sun Fire V210 server (that runs Solaris 10) configured as the master NIS server. In normal gethostbyname-type scenarios, such as ping, the NIS server performs well. However, when initiating the same type of lookup from the server (i.e. the NIS client is the master NIS server), there is ...

Hi,I downloaded free images of Solaris 10 and filled pre-download form. After that, I supposed to get e-mail letter with entitlement for use, but I didn't. I repeated form's filling, but without email result.A already asked local SUN's office, solaris10eval@sun.com for the same question, but ...

Hi All!I`m coming from the Linux world, so I`m a little confused about being a real Unix user. I would like to start learning from the starts. I installed Solaris 10 6/06 on my AMD64 box, I have been searhing for good documentations around the OS, but at docs.sun --at least for me it seems-- ...

Hi members of forum , I am newbie in solaris 10 on x86, and I have a problem at booting time, because I have the boot archive corrupted, I have read that I need to boot in failsafe, however I can抰 because in the grub, I don抰 have that option in the menu, In order to create than option I have to ...

Hi!Guys, I downloaded the 5 discs for solaris 10, started a new installation on my UNIX sun server... but now i'm stuck trying to install disc 4. I'm having the following error:The disc you inserted is not the correct CD/DVD for Solaris 10Software 4 for SPARC Platforms. Please try again* I ...

Hi all, I had blackout problem with my server , and it looks like some boot files got corrupted, so had to enter to the console, but when I tried to execute bootadm command , I can't because its file system is on read mode,Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): <enter ...

Hi Team,We tried to change the netmask and broadcast address in solaris 10 by below stepsifconfig ipge0 downifconfig ipge0 <ipaddress> netmask <subnet mask> broadcast <address ifconfig ipge0 upBut interface is not up.The command (ifconfig ipge0 up) is hanged for long time without ...

(1) After spending 10 hours finally I installed Solaris 10 11/06 on Dell 9150 (x86 intel, pentium D). Before installation I ran Hardware Compatibility Check tool & It did detect Intel 10/100/1000 NIC. After installation completed & system reboot its not connecting to the internet. I try ...

Hi, I am about to finally install Solaris Express 12/06 but I was wondering if it already has this patch included or not.. I cant find info about it... or maybe I should wait until the next version (which it should be out soon)... any insight?Thanks!

Hello I'm new to Solaris. I would like her comments about librarys for develop GUIs on Solaris. Is there an API that works also on Linux? natively

Hi,I want to enable swat on Solaris 10 11/06 using the version bundled with Solaris.As with all earlier versions I just installed the Samba packages and then imported the swat service via inetconv. In all previous versions this has worked fine but now i get an error in the web browser as ...

Conexant HCF 56K Data/Fax/VoiceSpkp Modem and Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio decoder were the only device drivers on my system not listed as having Solaris drivers. By the way I think that the 2nd one is related to my ATi TV Wonder Pro Pci card. Is there a way I can get the above ...

Hi,did anybody has experienced, that since some days there are difficulties in updating Solaris 10 with Update Manager? Motst of my Updates signes with "failes". If I download manually and install the patches ii is ok. But for more than 70 patches that sucks :-(Sonja

Hello,my usb stick does connect. I can see that with cfgadm -v -l and also when I try to configure cfgadm -c configure usb1/4.1 (as an example). It tells me that there is no need to configure.Also I can look in /var/adm/messages.But! Where and how can I look in the Corsair?Anyone with a good ...

Hello.I'm new....in solaris.Yesterday i had installed solaris 10. But during installation process i have mistake network adapter setting (i.e. ip, router ip, net mask).Now i'have UI of solaris .. but i don't find network adapter setting.How can i change ip, netmask , router ecc..Step-by-step ...

Hi -I have applications running in different local zones which need to access filesystems managed by RAID/Veritas. These applications execute veritas commands for failsafe operations and availability. Is there any way that veritas volumes can be accessed from local zones?Your help will be ...

As of 2007-02-08, SPARC kernel patch 118833-36 is included in the 10_Recommended patchset. I am unable to install this set (in single user mode) with "install_cluster -nosave -q" (as is my habit) because 118833-36 application fails in one of its postinstall scripts. That script attempts to ...

Hi,We are porting an app from Solaris 8/9 to 10. It makes very simple use of inetd - just fire up a fresh 'redbridge' instance every time somebody calls the redbridge service. No matter what silly things happen in one instance, the next caller gets a fresh instance and life goes ...

i'm trying to compile djbdns on solaris 10 on a sunfire v120 and i'm getting header errors... what packages do i need installed to successfully compile this?I currently have these packages installed:gcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-locallibiconv-1.11-sol10-sparc-localBelow ...

Hi, I would like to have a dual boot Solaris 10, Windows system. I want to create a partition such that both systems can read and write to it. Any ideas?

Hi Everybodyis there a doc or white paper that explain step by step how configure ipsec under solaris 10Thanks

Hi there,I have a few Solaris 10 questions.Does anybody know how to fix grainy desktop? Also, the tar command seems to not work. I was trying to fix it by using gnu tar instead but the "make" command doesn't work when i was trying to install (is it because of buggy gcc?). So if i can't untar ...

example)# netstat -a...*.33826 *.*0000 LISTEN...Port 33826 status was LISTEN. I tried to find the service used this port. I used lsof util. but lsof couldn't find the service. This port don't register for /etc/services file. How can I find the service use this ...

Hi all !!Anyone knows where I can to find a firebird database binary package for Solaris 10.The firebird proyect links to solaris version are broken.roberto

I feel stupid asking this question. This is actually in Solaris 8, but I can not figure out how to install this .gz file. I type gunzip and the file name and is expands the file and removes the .gz extension and that is were I get lost. The file I am trying to install is ...

I am trying to recompile an apache 2.2.3 with an updated openssl and stumble on httpd-2.2.3 make. I did compile this setup in the last year successfully, only difference is updated openssl.First, I installed openssl-0.9.6m from source. Test install:/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl versionOpenSSL ...

im sure ive read this somewhere but im having trouble locating the documentation. i'd like to apply the soalris 10 patch set to a jumpstart image. is this possible? Thanks all, P.

i need to change the interface for the running Solaris zone in E2900 system.now the zone interface is ce0:1 now i need to change the interface to ce2.whether i need a reboot of the zone or not.if reboot is not needed the following is ok or not :my-zone> add net:net> set ...

Is there anywhere a download server to get the binaries for gnupg build for Solaris10/Sparc and Solaris10/x86.regardsTABFound at www.sunfreeware.comnull

hellosince i patched apache2 on solaris 10 (sparc), it segmentation faults.# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 1/06 s10s_u1wos_19a SPARCCopyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Use is subject to license terms.Assembled 07 December 2005# uname -aSunOS digiadmin1 5.10 Generic_118833-36 ...

HI,I installed SE 2/07, when I try to log in remotely (using reflections or VNC) I get the following message, but some icons are missing are replaced for a generic one... weird... any help?Thanks!The message reads.."There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.Some things, such as ...

We just got a new Sun V245 in and the encapsulation process for Veritas 4.1 seems to be broken -- for some reason it's not putting the following lines into /etc/system:rootdev:/pseudo/vxio@0:0set vxio:vol_rootdev_is_volume=1This causes a failure on reboot like this:ERROR: ...

HiI have the following zoneszoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH0 globalrunning/1 www2 running/www22 wiki2running/wiki23 cvs2 running/cvs2Everytime I reboot the global zone the non-globalzones switches to `installed' state.All the non-globalzones are set autoreboot to true$ zonecfg -z www2 ...

hi everyone here is how I fixed my dual boot & internet connectivity failure problems. I'm explaining in detail to help any Solaris newbie (like me) having same problems: ( as I didn't find any REAL Help thru Sun Help Documents / Pages )My special thanx to " Phil Brown " (who helped me ...

A friend recommended that I update the bios and drivers on my ultra 20 m2, that runs Solaris 10 11/06, to get rid of some excessive fan noise.I downloaded the tools_and_drivers 1.5 disk and updated the bios. This solved my noise problem, but I think the driver update screwed up my X server's ...

Hello,I need some help with the following configuration:Dell 850 with Intel D940 (3.2 ghz dual core), 1 gig RAM, 2 80 gig SATA drivesNorco DS-1220 external SATA enclosure( http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=12&modelno=ds1220)Sil3124 4-port SATA ...

Dear experts,I am having sun blade 100 work station i want to install solstice back up 6.0 or 6.1.but i don't know weather it is compatibile to it or not.can any body help me that is it compatible to sun blade 100.

Dear Sun Forum users,I need help to schedule a job within crontab to run a job on the Monday before every 2nd Thursday. This is to be done every month and once only. It could also be interrupted as a job to run 4 days after every first Thursday.Would really appreciate, if you suggest any ...

Hi,I want my servers to be comply with 2006 DST changes.Could anyone help me to with the names of the patches to apply in this case.Solaris 8Solaris 9ThanksAndy

i have put solaris 8 machine on network. After half or one hour it doesnt ping from other network devices.Though i already commented autoshutdown in power.conf.Why it gets hanged.?Pls help

I need to remove patch 119280-04 which was present in the installation of Solaris as shipped with a new SunFire V490... but there is not backup data, so the patch will not remove with patchrm... is there any choice but to re-install Solaris?

We use to be able to get heat level from "prtdiag" command with our Solaris 7 OS in our SunFire X4600 server. We are not able to use the "prtdiag" command to get heat level info for the SunFire X4600 since we've upgraded the SunFire X4600 to Solaris 10.Any one knows how to solve this issue? Am ...

Hello,I've been attempting to do snapshots of a ZFS drive on a system where /export/home is part of a ZFS pool. Just doingzfs snapshot HOME@<date>will only backup the directories rather than their contents, so I can't use that. And using the -r option results in the following: zfs ...

Hi,I have some Solaris 10 Servers that i'm currently able to administer/monitor locally but the company will be moving very soon and i'm looking into remote management.I'm wondering on machines such as X2100's where LOM software is automatically available how i could do remote management of ...

Hi all,In sunfire v890 we have installed oracle 10g release 2 on solaris 10.prstat -a command shows :NPROC USERNAME SIZERSSMEMORYTIME CPU105root9268M 6324M20%1:21:57 0.4%59oracle24G22G 71%0:04:33 0.1%2nobody484M69M 0.2%0:11:32 0.0%2esbuser13M9000K0.0%0:00:46 0.0%1smmsp 7560K 1944K0.0%0:00:00 ...