Connecting the Internet

587 byte By CKleina at 2007-11-27 1:31:08
Hello,I just recently installed opensolaris developer edition and cannot connect to the internet. I use a wireless laptop and no connection was registered until I connected via ethernet cable. It registered my DHCP server and seemed as though I activated it, however, I was still not able to ...

I have installed new Sun Fire V445 Server but miss ALOM.

210 byte By deal732a at 2007-11-27 1:31:45
I have installed new Sun Fire V445 Server but missed ALOM configuration. Is it possible that i can see that ALOM setup again if i disconnect all power cable and re-plug it back?Thanks-Adeel

Why this messages printing? and I wanna know how to solve it.

1480 byte By wjkima at 2007-11-27 1:33:00
pr 18 22:08:59 anbang ufs: [ID 617866 kern.notice] NOTICE: ufs_getattrdir: inode 442707 points to attribute directory 10 which is not an attribute directory;run fsck on file systemApr 18 22:08:59 anbang last message repeated 1 timeApr 18 22:09:00 anbang ufs: [ID 617866 kern.notice] NOTICE: ...

ufsdump acros ssh session seems to get corrupted

973 byte By rockdude76a at 2007-11-27 1:33:09
Hi,I am trying to perform a ufsdump to a remote tape device by piping it through an ssh session to a server with an LTO drive locally attached.ie. ufsdump 0uf - / | ssh tapedump@tapeserver /usr/bin/dd bs=32k "of=/dev/rmt/0un"It completes succesfully but when I go to do a ufsrestore on the tape ...

Support for wireless

757 byte By BhanuVemulaa at 2007-11-27 1:41:14
Online OnlinePosts: 1View Profile Email Personal Message (Online)Support of wireless?on: Today at 06:28:34 pm ?br>Reply with quote Modify messageHi allI have a Dell XPS laptop with the following cardswireless card - Intel(R) PRO/ Wireless 3945ABG Netwrok cardEthernet card - Broadcom 440x 10/100 ...

URGENT Clarification - execute UltraSPARC3 extension on UltrSPARC2 unix box

1132 byte By VG_BALAa at 2007-11-27 1:46:19
How to execute the executables which were compiled UltraSparc3Hi,We have an executable by name "execom" whose file permission and type is as follows:</etc/b2k>ls -lrtlrwxrwxrwx1 rootroot 54 Apr 13 16:43 execom -> ...

Helpdesk / workorder management software?

134 byte By DoxBriana at 2007-11-27 1:47:38
Not sure where else to post this... Looking for something that runs well on Solaris. Any suggestions?Thanks!Brian

Not able to start inetd

847 byte By PSSa at 2007-11-27 1:48:08
Hello,I have one Sun Fire T2000 server and was working fine for quite some time. After rebooting the server, server stopped accepting the network connection because inted was not starting. Following is the output of svcs. I will appreciate help.Thanks,Dattasvcs -xv ...

Solaris 10 boot hang!

1965 byte By peterwang_60a at 2007-11-27 1:54:23
Don't know if this is the right place to post my question. I had a SPARC Ultra 10 machine running under Solaris 10, it was running for couple months. Recently when I reboot it, it was hang at "Use is subject to license terms." I press STOP+A to bring me to ok prompt, then type boot -v, the ...

Solaris 10 - where to begin ?

130 byte By Zorro26a at 2007-11-27 1:54:31
HiI'm new to unix and solaris 10.Which books or websites (tutorials) can you recommendto begin from ?

triple boot xp vista and solaris 10

158 byte By Zorro26a at 2007-11-27 1:54:43
HiI currently have xp and vista dual boot and would like triple bootingwith solaris 10.What should i do ?Thanks in advance.

striping with ZFS and SAN(AMS500 HDS)

385 byte By shayberya at 2007-11-27 1:55:32
There is a way to do striping with zfs?I have Storage-SAN of HDS(AMS500), and I want to do striping on luns from the storage. I don't want any raid-5(because I have one on the disks in the HDS storage).I only want to do strip on 2 luns(25GB each) that cames from different controllers.Is ...

get the value of a global variable

293 byte By fablafa at 2007-11-27 2:01:27
Hello,I'd like to obtain the value of a global variable used by a process (pid known). Is there a way to get the value of the variable if I know its address in the memory? Can Dtrace do that? Do you have an example of script? Thank you for your help.Fabien.

zfs stripe test preformance !?

786 byte By shayberya at 2007-11-27 2:01:43
Hello I test the prepormance by copy 512MB file into zfs pool that created from 2 luns with stripe, oneLun came from Storage-controller-0 and connected through HBA-0second Lun came from Storage-controller-1 and connected through HBA-1time was 12 sec. (time cat /var/tmp/bigfile512mb > ...

Solaris 10 - how to add a raw printer via printadm

263 byte By thintza at 2007-11-27 2:02:54
I want to send unfiltered files directly to a network printer. All the manufacturer and model choices appear to translate print files using ppd. How does one either create a pass-through printer for raw print files or specify lp options to avoid filtering?

jass and ftp

634 byte By kristian_groenlia at 2007-11-27 2:03:02
Hi.I'm using jass-execute secure.driver to harden one of my zones.Now, I'd like to enable ftp, so I've done:svcadm enable ftpIf I do netstat -a | grep LISTEN I get:*.ftp*.*00 491520 LISTEN*.ftp*.*00 491520 LISTENsvcs -x gives nothingbash-3.00# svcs -a | grep ftponline 15:24:59 ...

Switching from serial connection to GUI

924 byte By juergena at 2007-11-27 2:03:34
Hi,I have installed Solaris 10 on an x86 machine over a serial connection because I needed it running right there and then and the video setup gave me major headaches. Now, with the immediate task at hand accomplished, I would very much like to take another stab at setting up X, but I can't ...

using global zone /export/home in non-global zone

664 byte By cornbreada at 2007-11-27 2:04:48
i have a global zone called zia and two non-global zones called theta, pheta.both theta and pheta zones are owned by the same customer. I adding the /export/home filesystem to both of the zones. i can create a user fine in each zone with the /export/home directory from global. when i cd into ...

Solaris Security Toolkit not found

283 byte By frank_panka at 2007-11-27 2:04:52
Hi all:I installed Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2.0 in Solaris 10 x86 system.When I run "jass-execute -h" from "/opt/SUNWjass", it shows"jass-execute not found". How can i run JASS from a terminal?Any body can help?Thank YouFrank

fork inetd_start-FTP problem

387 byte By Christian_Mocka at 2007-11-27 2:07:24
Hi, sporadically a ftp client can't sent data to my solaris 10 system. On server side following message apear:Unable to fork inetd_start method of instance svc:/network/ftp:default: Resource temporarily unavailableWhat can i do to avoid the problem? Is there a switch in solaris 10 to increase ...

Determining service existence

545 byte By aderixona at 2007-11-27 2:09:28
I'm currently writing a module for Cfengine to enable and disable services via SMF. However, a particular service isn't necessarily installed on every system (e.g. we don't install CDE on servers so services like "cde-login" won't exist). Is there a recommended way to test for the existence ...

Solaris 10 slow performance...help

749 byte By cibcguea at 2007-11-27 2:10:28
I am having a Solaris 10 box with 2G Ram. After the system is up for 20 days or so, the system gets very very slow. And doing "mdb -k" with "::memstat" give me the following,> ::memstatPage SummaryPagesMB %Tot- - -Kernel 251153 196297%Anon 105480%Exec and libs44430%Page cache 4200%Free ...

about pkgadd error

173 byte By spana at 2007-11-27 2:15:22
when i're install packages , system report: pkgadd error :no packages found in <dir >used command:#pkgadd -d . or #pkgadd -d <dir > pkgname

Shared segment memory allocation

311 byte By SShakoora at 2007-11-27 2:15:56
Does solaris allocate shared segments (ipcs -m) from the physical memory or virtual memory (swap) is also considered? - In other words, given 8G physical memory on a server with 20G swap and nothing running on a server, will I be able to allocate a 12G shared memory ...

Solaris fail to boot after Recommended patch

1595 byte By Sunofsona at 2007-11-27 2:16:11
After the below recommended patches I'm not able to boot up my Solaris 10 machine. Below is the error message:/kernel/fs/sparcv9/devfs: undefined symbol 'fs_acl_nontrivial'WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'devfs'(Can't load devfs) Program terminatedList patchs appplyThe following ...

HELP!! install CUPS

468 byte By xeveusa at 2007-11-27 2:16:51
im newbie in solaris, i want to install my printer to solaris, i've already download and try step by step configuring CUPS in http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/install_cups.htmlbut CUPS is still not working, there's an error when command : /etc/init.d/cups start , the error is : ...

pkg-get fails with Invalid PORT

471 byte By timevansa at 2007-11-27 2:21:38
pkg-get (version 3.7.2) reports:Connecting to ftp.ibiblio.org:21... connected!Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/sparc/5.10 ... done.==> PORT ...Invalid PORT.Giving up.There are multiple repetitions of this exchange. I ...

solaris 10 installation

168 byte By dsp2111a at 2007-11-27 2:23:45
Hi.. I want to install solaris 10 on my laptop. I have TOSHIBA A105-S4021 model. can i install solaris on my laptop. please reply any one have idea about this..!

Sendmail needs to Listen in Particular Interface

465 byte By grkrajesha at 2007-11-27 2:25:39
Hi Team ,We have two interface configured in our Solaris 10 Server.One is configured to public address and another interface to Private address.We have started the senmail, but sendmail listening in public and privte address.I want to listen sendmail in private interface only. Please let me ...

Update problem with QT4.2.3 applications on Solaris 10 XSun/Sparc

424 byte By hjpriester001a at 2007-11-27 2:27:52
I have a problem when running a QT 4.2.3 application on Solaris 10 with the XSun xserver.(Sun Ultra 25 with Solaris 10 with a XVR-100 card).When scrolling vertical from bottom to the top in almost everyscrolled area derived classes the contents of the windowis not correctly updated. For example ...

two server share zfs file system with storage

335 byte By fabio83sa at 2007-11-27 2:28:09
HelloI have two server with solaris 10 on vmware nodeon this server I connect single storage Is possible create and share this storage with zfs file system?I must create with sun cluster nfs server with HAIs possible this configuration?TanksMessage was edited by: ...

finding epoch seconds for given date.

1375 byte By sateesh.pabbojua at 2007-11-27 2:28:12
Hi, I could able to find out the epoch seconds for particular date in linux using date -d 'Apr 2 2005 15:31:17' '+%s' But I am looking for the commands in solaris which does the same work. I will be thank full if some one could help me. I tried to do manual......but epoch seconds that I get ...

Can I Install Solaris 10 patches on Solaris9?

607 byte By sun-certifieda at 2007-11-27 2:31:57
hi,please, can anybody tell me what would happen if i install the following Solaris 10 SPARC patch to my Solaris 9 SPARC sunblade 100? http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=120460the reason i would like to install this patch is to fix the bug that i reported ...

New to Solaris...Actually havent installed yet

627 byte By dreamscapeclouda at 2007-11-27 2:32:04
I came across this platform with the intention of finding an OS that would not drain every ounce of memory I have. I currently use XP Home. I run Audio software that taxes my computer to no end. My Q: is. Which OS is compatiblewith XP Home? Is the software that I currently run on XP compatible ...

Are Solaris Zones PCI compliant

384 byte By GregRyana at 2007-11-27 2:33:01
We are going through a PCI compliance audit. The auditors are saying that solaris zones are not pci compliant and that we cannot use them. Period. I was wondering if Sun had any insight into this, and possibly how to go around it. I am not happy with the company doing the audit and am not ...

possible side effect of update 121230-02

174 byte By J_A_Ritzenberga at 2007-11-27 2:33:39
I installed 121230-02 using Update Manager, and afterthe reboot, the mouse had stopped working. Running'patchrm 121230-02' got the mouse working again.

Flash Player for Solaris - And J2SE 6.0 for Solaris

497 byte By sparcmastera at 2007-11-27 2:37:53
Hello,The current version of flash player for Solaris is 7.0.67.0. For Windows it is 9.0.45.0. What gives? Is Adobe just giving up on Solaris? Now, in Firefox and Mozilla for Solaris, imbedded videos on web pages such as www.nytimes.com will not display, apparently due to the ancient version of ...

zfs storage pools with EMC Snapview clones

595 byte By ifinzena at 2007-11-27 2:40:03
We're currently using Veritas VM and Snapview clones to present multiple copies of our database data to the same host. I've found that Veritas doesn't like multiple copies of the same disk group being imported on a host and found a way around this. My question is: does zfs have this problem? ...

Redundant IP between two Solaris 10 servers

404 byte By tzacha at 2007-11-27 2:48:13
HiTill now we use switch base solution to implement redundant IP between two servers.I understand Solaris 10 allow us to do it with out special feature in the switch.I do not look for a complex cluster like solution, rather for the simplest way to expose one external IP. I would appreciate if ...

how to add "capped-memory" using zonecfg

482 byte By jazzfana at 2007-11-27 2:53:23
hi allI was told we can add "capped-memory" to my zone, using zonecfg, like so:zonecfg:testing1> add capped-memoryzonecfg:testing1:capped-memory> set physical=512mzonecfg:testing1:capped-memory> set swap=512mzonecfg:testing1:capped-memory> end(this is in the zone ...

how to configure sendmail for outgoing only?

419 byte By usaoa at 2007-11-27 2:53:37
I have another custom application running on port 25, listening to the email traffic there. However, I still need to send mail from the localhost to the internet. I need a way to configure sendmail such that it will send mail but either not listen at all, or listen on a different port. I have ...

Solaris 10 X 86 install hungs

169 byte By jsaida at 2007-11-27 2:54:47
After selecting language (0=English),, CD boot tries to install Solaris 10 I then get this error "No disk found" error eventhough the CD is in there.. please help

how to allow regular user login to solaris 10 console?

227 byte By jazzfana at 2007-11-27 2:58:28
Hi AllDoes anyone know how to allow regular solaris 10 (sparc) users to access the console (Xwindows)? Right now, only ROOT can logon via Xwindows (console), but no one else.Thank you for you help!SB

Patching Problem on Solaris 10

2042 byte By sunsysadm2003a at 2007-11-27 3:00:00
I have tried downloading the latest Solaris 10 patch cluster and I believe it only installed just a very few patches. I am trying to get all the latest patches installing on my Solaris 10 Sun Blade 100 including all the DST patches. I am seeing differences in what is reported in the showrev and ...

Strange behavior about Solaris 10 11/06 x86 dhcp client

483 byte By U_R_Welcomeda at 2007-11-27 3:00:03
Hi forumners,I can use the installed Solaris 10 x86 to access internet on my laptop at home, however, when I use my laptop running Solaris 10 at my working office I can not get onto internet. When I use "ifconfig -a" to check the interfaces, it shows me the ip address which is usually assigned ...

Cannot ping network unless the -g option is used and cannot telnet

1477 byte By brunija at 2007-11-27 3:02:39
I am trying to reach a remote network to telnet to a system on that network. My setup is as such using bogus IP's:Interfaces:Local Ethernet - 3.3.3.1Local ATM Interface - 1.1.1.1 (VLAN)Server acting as router on distant end (ATM) - 1.1.2.5Distant system trying to telnet into - 2.2.2.1Local ...

About notation of version in Solaris

126 byte By Bertia at 2007-11-27 3:03:58
Can any one show me what is the meaning of the notation of versions in Solaris?For example, Solaris 10 3/05 HW2.

How to change device names?

1277 byte By rayadmina at 2007-11-27 3:06:18
This questions revolves around three V490s. - All are connected to the same raid.- All have cards in the same slots. - One box had only 1 internal drive, two came with 2 internal drives.- All have stmsboot enabled.- When doing a format, 2 boxes show the paths to be the same (ie, c6txxxxx), 1 ...

free packages in Solaris9

555 byte By G_identitya at 2007-11-27 3:07:03
Hi!There seems to be many free GNU packages in our Solaris system and would like to delete those on our production system.SFWaalibSFWaconfSFWafioSFWamakeSFWamndaSFWbdbSFWbisonSFWbrlSFWcprntSFWctagsSFWcvsSFWdb1SFWdddSFWdiffuSFWemacsSFWenscrSFWespgsSFWespkHow do we know if these GNU free packages ...

SVM mirroring for veritas rootdg slice

668 byte By jaonjina at 2007-11-27 3:07:27
I'm not sure this is possble? we have a system solaris 9, veritas VXVM 3.5 the veritas rootdg is on a slice 6 of the boot disk . the disk layout is like these* FirstSectorLast* Partition Tag FlagsSectorCountSector Mount Directory020062246592 19660032 81906623/1301 0 16393536 163935352500 0 ...