Recommended JVM on Solaris 10

1085 byte By jborna at 2007-11-27 0:07:29
Hi,I am currently trying load test a web application under iPlanet 6.1 after a recent upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10. The performance under Solaris 10 is not the same as under Solaris 8, so I wanted to verify some information about versions we are using of iPlanet and Java and make sure ...

Is it posible to install solstice backup 5.1 on Solaris 10?

253 byte By murilloaa at 2007-11-27 0:08:31
Hi, does anyone know if this is possible?I tried to install by running the installer (web start) but it gets stock for long time on 'checking disk space' section... I have 18gb of free space so I don't know what else... any suggestions?

Commands using # and %

465 byte By felix.roybala at 2007-11-27 0:09:01
Hello, I am new to the Solaris community and I have a couple of questions:I see some Solaris commands that are prefixed with # and %. What is the difference in the usage of # and % in this case?Also, I have been trying to change the resolution on my computer (running Solaris 8) with the ...

Application installation issue in Solaris

373 byte By tamizhan_javaa at 2007-11-27 0:09:43
Hi All,I am trying install the application in Solaris 5.10. But after installation started i am getting following error./tmp/install.dir.1812/Solaris/resource/jre/bin/java: cannot executeMachine hardware:i86pcOS version: 5.10Processor type:i386Hardware:i86pcCan any one tell how to resolve this ...

New to Solaris

610 byte By Roadrunnera at 2007-11-27 0:13:13
Hello everyone,I am new to Solaris,,,very new,so please forgive me if I seem to ask stupid questions.I started my computer years out with DOS 6.22 and windows 3.11,all I know is windows and it's really spoiled me to other OS's.I just got the free Solaris 10 11/06 OS in the mail and have it ...

Installation Infiniband (base, configure drivers)

1133 byte By Sr_a at 2007-11-27 0:14:38
I try install Mellanox Infiniband card (MHET2X-1TC) 2 port 10G PCI-X.I use manual - "Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X Installation and User’s Guide".try: # dmesg | grep tavor>>hostname pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: pci15b3,5a44 (tavor) instance 0 vector ...

Does Solaris fit my needs?

2479 byte By Oziris_Systemsa at 2007-11-27 0:15:21
Hello people. I decided to move to Solaris 10, but just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. The first question is the Solaris 10 the right system for me? What i want to do with it? Well, i planned to install Sol10, and to do the web serving (but not via Internet, just Local Area Network ...

how to open a web page in java in Solaris system

228 byte By mqqqvpppma at 2007-11-27 0:17:48
i can do this in windows:String location = "www.sun.com";Runtime.getRuntime().exec("explorer " + location);how could i get it in solaris?Thanks

panic: cannot mount boot archives

1243 byte By Maddena at 2007-11-27 0:19:00
Hello !I have installed Solarias 10 1/06 some time ago and today I managed to get most of the updates installed with Sun Update Connection, but now my Solarias system will not boot !It says: 'cannot mount boot archives' and prompts me to press a key for reboot.Note that some of the updates ...

Dual Networks Configuration

678 byte By knabe_ta at 2007-11-27 0:20:23
I have a T2000, using two NICs. ipge0: is for the public network and it uses dhcp. I have an /etc/defaultrouter entry for it's default route only.ipge1: is for my private network. I have a NetApp NAS device and I nfs mount several file systems here, but we also route some of this private ...

Some problems in measuring system performance

3327 byte By lishena at 2007-11-27 0:26:34
Dear allI'm a new in Solaris world. Recently, my team is doing some performance tests on the Solaris 10 platform. But I find that it puzzles me about how Solaris system will measure CPU loadfor example, I use command prstat -L -p <pid> to determine the CPU load of each threads for a ...

Solaris10 Command history in $HISTFILE

1646 byte By sahu@javaa at 2007-11-27 0:28:10
Solaris 10 Experts Recently we upgraded our Solaris8 boxes to Solaris 10 ( all except our nfs box which is still Sol8). I have noticed that on the Sol10 boxes the command history is being written to $HOME/.sh_history instead of $HOME/$HISTFILE in a particular scenario.==== This is what I have ...

zonecfg set ip-type=exclusive

848 byte By matthew.taylora at 2007-11-27 0:29:31
The latest documentation on zones I have from Sun: SystemAdministration Guide:Solaris Containers-ResourceManagement and Solaris ZonesSunMicrosystems, Inc.PartNo: 817?592?4June 2007Lists the global parameter "ip-type" which can have a value of "exclusive" when the zone is to have its own ...

Solaris10 network service.

60 byte By bhaskisa at 2007-11-27 0:31:48
How do I restart TCP/TP network service on Solaris10.

Burning CDs/missing filenames

425 byte By helloeartha at 2007-11-27 0:32:18
HI eveybody,I downloaded oracle 10G for solaris on a windows machine and burn it on a CD,when insert the CD in Solaris 10 x86,it seems that the file names on the CDs it automount automatically are changed (you can only read the first 8 charaters of the filename)while if you put the cd back in ...

Solaris 10 SVM and Solaris 8 SDS 4.2 Compatability

388 byte By morse.helpdeska at 2007-11-27 0:32:59
Hi,I was wondering if anyone knows whether it is possible to share diskset in a SE3510 using the following Volume Management Software.Solaris 10 SVM & Solaris 8 SDS 4.2Or is it only possible to use the same version of SVM i.e upgrade the Solaris 8 server to Solaris 10.Not sure if this is ...

Apache thrashing swap. Look inside

458 byte By Damian_Finola at 2007-11-27 0:36:32
Greetings,Recently, we've seen an increase in the use of our swap for example, from top:Memory: 8192M real, 6107M free, 10G swap in use, 88M swap freeAnd a lot of Apache's children.I've tried tuning the MaxClients directive from Apache, right now it's at 156, I set it down to 50 and it ...

n00b question: pkgadd behaves strange

1049 byte By yassen.tisa at 2007-11-27 0:41:21
Complete n00b with Solaris; so please be mersiful. After a fresh Solaris 10 install I had to run a script that required curl and curl was not available. So I went to sun's freeware site ( http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xml) and downloaded SFWcurl.pkg.bz2; after ...

could not obtain latest contract from popen(3C): No such process

147 byte By tilok12a at 2007-11-27 0:42:47
when i add a scripts in crontab file.in /var/cron/log shows the errorcould not obtain latest contract from popen(3C): No such process

missing fcinfo

242 byte By eric.a at 2007-11-27 0:42:51
hi,I installed s10 3/05 incl. SUNWfc* packages and all available patches via smpatch. In s10 6/06 a new package SUNWfcprt vs. fcinfo is included. I'm missing fcinfo. Is there a patch available?Thanks for help.Eric

Solaris 10/TX with labeled zones in different subnets?

4104 byte By kshawcdsa at 2007-11-27 0:45:30
Hello all,I am trying to configure Solaris 10 with Trusted Extensions (11/06). I have made quite a bit of progress, but I'm stuck on one part:I have two security levels (secret and topsecret) and I want to create one labeled zone for each level, each with its own dedicated physical interface ...

cleanup of stale device special files thru devfsadm

949 byte By vasanthita at 2007-11-27 0:47:58
HiThe device special files (/dev/rdsk/*) files are not gettling cleaned up properly thru "devfsadm -C" command after a lun has been made unvisible to the host. Basically, open to such stale entries fail. Is there any other way to cleanup these other than using "rm" command. Following is the ...

Deskto for new user

470 byte By Salman_Qureshia at 2007-11-27 0:48:26
hi,I logged in as root into my newly installed Solaris 10 and i create a new user as follows.useradd salmanThan i set its passwordpasswd salmanNow when i tro to log into the Solaris using new username and password, It again shows my login screen of my desktop. It is not logging me in. Does my ...

How to configure DNS ?

110 byte By vantuana at 2007-11-27 0:48:56
Hi everybody, please tell me how to configure DNS. Which file is needed configuring?Thanks alot.

mount: not a block device

206 byte By ronweasleya at 2007-11-27 0:49:45
i have created a solaris lun and trying to view the same from my solaris console. i want to perform i/o operations on the lun; how do i mount it? 'coz mount command gives "not a block device" error.

"cfgadm -c unconfigure" on direct attached Target (fc_privat) not possible

2859 byte By pdbrmonta at 2007-11-27 0:50:45
System: Enterprise M5000 ServerOS: Solaris 10 11/06 (U3), Generic_125100-04Target: EMC CLARiiON CX3-20fcfgadm -alAp_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantConditionc0scsi-busconnectedconfiguredunknownc0::dsk/c0t0d0disk connectedconfiguredunknownc0::dsk/c0t1d0disk ...

Solaris 10 11/06 Jumpstart issue

384 byte By ledzepa at 2007-11-27 0:52:13
Hi All -When I try to jumpstart Solaris 10 11/06 it has security turned on at the begining. But when the jumpstart is done, security is turned off. Is there any reason for this to happen or is that my jumpstart is overriding something which is causing this. BTW, the jumpstart also includes some ...

trying to install nic drivers for solaris 10 on x86 machine

713 byte By greatitfreaka at 2007-11-27 0:55:34
i am trying to install nic drives for sis 900 downlaoded from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/i am following the instruction in the readme file but when i reach (5) Make links to correct binary directory and Makefile according to yourconfiguration. i386 and gcc are default.% cd ...

How to assign a Default Gateway ?

186 byte By vantuana at 2007-11-27 0:56:19
Hi everybody, please show me how to assign default gateway to my networking interface.Example: my IP: 192.168.1.45default gateway: 192.168.1.12thanks alot !!!

Solaris sengments not extracting in DVD image

456 byte By NileshShastrakara at 2007-11-27 0:56:21
Hello All,I have downloaded the all sengments from the site Solaris 10 OS, x86, for WINDOWS ONLY PLATFORM.but when I run the first sengment sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd.exe it takes very long time and not moving ahead from 0.0% process I waited till 4 hours but the image is not extracted could any one ...

Solaris Noob question

489 byte By Shootfasta at 2007-11-27 0:59:06
Hi all, I have recently installed Solaris 10.5 to my sata hard disk (a lengthly install), and after going through the grub menu and selecting Solaris 10, I very quickly see part of the boot process before it restarts. It seems like a kernel panic, however having never used solaris before (and ...

Help me Decide on OpenBSD or Solaris as my web and file server please

1187 byte By heathervala at 2007-11-27 1:00:42
Hi5 questionsi have been using OpenBSD as my Web and file server for a while nowand FreeBSD as my Desktopi decided on OpenBSD as my Server because of its Security1) But now i hear Solaris is the most Secure OS pn the Planet? is this trueAnd which is real Unix?i seem to always have trouble with ...

ChassisSerialNumber in nvramrc

437 byte By STOP_TIMEOUTa at 2007-11-27 1:05:15
Hi,can anybody explain to me this line that reads ." ChassisSerialNumber ####AN#### " crand appears in my nvramrc and what is its effect on the systemnvramrc content:nvramrc=devalias net /pci@9,700000/network@2." ChassisSerialNumber ####AN#### " crhow can put it back there because it is gone ...

Hard disc check

522 byte By Oziris_Systemsa at 2007-11-27 1:05:47
Hello to everyone. I recently installed Sol 10, and now i am wondering, how to check where my solaris is installed (on which partition), because i made of my hd (80 gb), 3 partitions, one of about 50, where is Windows, and one of 25 gb for Solaris, and one of 5 gb, (as suggested) for solaris ...

How to mount a FAT32 partition on Solaris?

263 byte By vantuana at 2007-11-27 1:07:11
Hi everybody, i have a question about making partition accessible: I have a HDD, devided into 2 partition: one FAT32 and another for Solaris. How can i mount FAT32 partition on Solaris, make it accessible, readable ?Please help me, thanks !!!

System does not go into CDE mode after reboot

576 byte By kah_houa at 2007-11-27 1:08:31
hi, I am Raymond.I have a problem with Solaris 10 System. Everytime when I reboot the system, It will stop and prompt me to login (command line) after rebooted.When I login and check the run-level, it is run-level 3.In order to go into CDE (GUI) Mode. I need to run the following command ...

unable to get OK prompt ( V240 ) Urgent

343 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 1:11:24
Dear all i have V240 which is not comming up , and im unable to log into system from SC i tried console command from SC but it does give any output poweron/poweroff the system still no luck when i run showplatform from SC it gives OS stoppedim unable to get to Ok prompt , please advice ...

prstat -Z : 70 Megabytes RSS for a zone but only 24 Megabytes RAM ?

2729 byte By Wylema at 2007-11-27 1:12:31
Good morning,here is the result for prstat -Z command on a v890 with 8 processors sparcIV 4+ with 24 Go RAM :PID USERNAME SIZERSS STATE PRI NICETIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 24592 oracle937M 906M cpu21501:24:14 4,7% oracle/22 3754 oracle2027M 1368M sleep6008:30:59 4,7% oracle/29 3749 oracle1950M 1335M ...

how to installl smf service to run only after reboot

530 byte By stam1a at 2007-11-27 1:13:07
Hello,What should I do in order to get my service enabled only after next reboot?I worte a new SMF service and I add it to the repositry with svccfg.I set the enable=false so that it needs to be enabled first.It should not be running right after installation but only when the system first ...

at my first boot monitor goes sleep

794 byte By plz_plz_plz_help_mea at 2007-11-27 1:14:17
hi,i have downloaded solaris 10 & install at my system succesfully after rebootit is not starting desktop environ ment & monitor goes sleep(cpu continue start but monitor show blank screen as without starting computer)their is multibooting on my system window correctoly booting from ...

How to mount a NTFS partition on solaris?

159 byte By Oziris_Systemsa at 2007-11-27 1:15:15
Hello. I want to know how i can mount a nfts partition on solaris? I have another HD, of 200 gb, but solaris doesn`t show it... what should i do? Thanks

open ftp service

149 byte By vlsia at 2007-11-27 1:15:53
Dear All,By default, OS 10 disabled ftp service. Can I know how to open the ftp service?Any help is much appreciated.vlsi

How to configure to let remote login with 'Xwin' through 'ssh'

305 byte By vlsia at 2007-11-27 1:15:59
Dear All,PC users want to remote login to Sun machine with 'Xwin'. Considering security issue, we would like to let user connect through 'ssh' with 'Xwin' from PC. What configuration should be done to enable the connection on Sun machine?Any help is much ...

Plz help

93 byte By p_vijila at 2007-11-27 1:25:27
What are the versions of solaris supported an application that is developed in forms6i

plzzz help me

100 byte By p_vijila at 2007-11-27 1:25:36
What are the versions of solaris supported an application that is developed in oracle forms6i

Solaris 10 xdmcp problem

657 byte By kentm27a at 2007-11-27 1:29:42
I recently installed Solaris 10 on my E2900.However I can not connect to it using xdmcp (exceed).I checked a few things: dtlogin is running but looks misconfigured despite my best efforsts:/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon -udpPort 0is what shows up when I do a ps command. I think using port 0 ...

Help error while booting sunfire v440 (error)

1471 byte By ncmainaa at 2007-11-27 1:29:46
Hi solaris admins.i am getting the following error while trying to install the solaris 10 OS on a sunfire v440 server.Please can someone help me out here.i think the problem is with the Hard Drives or something.=================================================Sun Fire V440, No KeyboardCopyright ...

useradd during preinstall for custom package fails when new zone is created

868 byte By chrismilesa at 2007-11-27 1:29:51
I have created a custom package. The package needs to create a user, which it does in the preinstall script. pkgadd works fine for the global zone and for any already-installed non-global zones.However, if I create a new non-global zone, the package is installed but the user is not added (so ...

Help to see PDFs properly, which are downloaded from docs.sun.com

408 byte By upendratwa at 2007-11-27 1:30:36
Hello,Please help me to see the PDFs properly, which are downloaded from docs.sun.com. I have downloaded reading manuals of PDFs in windows flatform. Now i am opening those on Solaris 10 with Gnome PDF viewer. Those PDFs are not opening in english. Its some other english. Its not our normal ...

Performance Meter Does Not Open

564 byte By PFDogsa at 2007-11-27 1:30:57
I just did a fresh install of Solaris 10 11/06 on my Sun Ultra 10, but the Performance Meter will not open. After clicking on the icon, it doesn't appear and doesn't give any error message. When I try to execute/usr/bin/gnome-perfmeter from the command line, the meter does not open and ...