I have Solaris 10 06/06 installed on x86 machine which is using svm and clustered with another node. The kernel revision is 118855-19 from the uname -a output. I am looking for the kernel patch updation and I heard 118855-36 is the latest one. Shall I go ahead with this patch and what r the ...

Hi I just received a new Ultra 20 M2 workstation with a Quadro FX1500 graphics card (using the preinstalled Solaris 10) and noticed that OpenGL apps (glxgears) is using the Mesa libraries instead of the NVIDIA accelerated libraries (only give about 800FPS). As best as I can determine, the ...

Can anybody explain what this file is used for? Can we remove this file in a production enviroment?Thanks.

One Sun system that I can make a XDMCP query too from my MacBook through Apple's X11. It will log in to the JDE, but not into CDE. Trying to log into CDE gives me a hourglass then kicks me back to the login screenA second Solaris system just refuses XDMCP connections. Using gdm-config or ...

Hi,New to Solaris 10. Can you direct me about the download and installation procedure for NTP on Solaris 10 Sparc.Thanks in advance !Tx,S

Hi Guys,I'm relatively new to solaris..I have been assigned an inventory task of the solaris servers by my boss and needless to say i'm struggling with it .I wante to find out the following details:1.HBA card make,model,no of cards installed and driver version.2.NIC card make,model,no of ...

What is the recommendation for doing boot from SAN?I have /,/var,swap partitions, with of them is recommended to put on the SAN for sure?Generally, what are the advantages and the disadvantages for using boot from SAN?As I see it, the big advantage to create /,/var on the SAN because it is good ...

hi every onei would like to know the package names needed to install any server EXAMPLE DNS along with the depending packages.as i am new to this environment please do not ignore as it might be a simple.and please provide an example along with the command

Hi All -What is the AIX equivalent of export/import file (-bE: and -bI:) for shared objects in Solaris linker. Your help will be greatly appreciated.Thanks and Regards

Guys, I have been asked to create zones with Solaris 10 on a netra.From where i can get documentation on this? From where i can get binaries for this.sunsole is not giving me more details. Do any of you have any experiance on zoning ? If yes put your ...

Hi,I am booting up a new ultra 45 which can not recognize the keyboard or mouse (both USB;and new). the patch level for this system is 118833-36. I have tried to connect at both front and back USB connections with no luck.is there another patch I am missing or is this a hardware problem?please ...

hello,i am running a process on a solaris10 machine. this process is supposed to print some messages just before the machine is restarted.in the manual of init i see that my process should receive a SIGTERM signal and only after 5 seconds a SIGKILL should be sent.when performing init 6, my ...

Hello,I've been looking around and searching through google but alas I cannot find an answer to this question:If I disable SSH access to an user, hrough setting the shell /usr/bin/false how would they go to connect to the server using SFTP?Regards,Damian

hello, I bought a Sun Ultra 5 server from ebay, and wanted to install Solaris 10 on it. I downloaded the 5-CD version of Solaris 10 from Sun website.When I powered on the server, it dispalys a series of prompts:-Type control-d to proceed with normal starup(or give root password for system ...

HiI am trying to install a zone with the /usr/local dir to be read and writeable.The configuration of the zone looks like thiszonename: ipa-dbzonepath: /data/zones/ipa-dbautoboot: truepool:limitpriv:inherit-pkg-dir:dir: /libinherit-pkg-dir:dir: /platforminherit-pkg-dir:dir: ...

Hi all i have a question about available memoru inside the zone.oracle is reporting aprox 3.9Gb from my 16gb that is like 1/4previously(sol 7-8-9) you could adjust kernel parameter and shell limit values in the /etc/system but in sol 10 there is a small instruction on the oracle site and it ...

Hello ,My sun sparc 20 station crash and it doesn't boot. It stays on the OK prompt and when i type boot it doesn't do any thing expect giving me a bunch of errors. On this box, i need to back my data before i do re-installation of this machine. Any body have any idea how i can back up my ...

I have seen some old posts concerning Acrobat reader for Solaris 10, x86. Has anyone been successful in installing a PDF reader on x86 platform ?ThanksJim

HiKindly note that as in Download section I am not able to see the IPLANET WEB SERVER in WEB SERVER CATEGORY. As when i click on Sun One web Server in some of the location it shows that "formerly iplanet web server" As I have one doubt regarding that whether Now the support & Newer version ...

Please, where could I find a good tutorial about SNMP in Solaris systems ?Thanks

Having executed# rctladm -e syslog process.max-file-descriptorI am now seeing lots of messages in /var/adm/messages of the form:Apr 25 08:27:08 toyotomi genunix: [ID 883052 kern.notice] basic rctl process.max-file-descriptor (value 256) exceeded by process 137 (which happens to be nscd, but ...

Both snoop and wireshark yield the same error/feedback during the attempted client connections regardless of valid user and password.POPResponse: --ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command

Below is a problem I am seeing with SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-24. I have run this test on SPARC and x86. The problem only happens on our SPARC systems:Setup: /zones is a zpool of 2 72g disks. In it is a test zfs file system called test.As Root:# pwd/zones/test# mkdir -p a/b# cd a/b# touch c# cd ...

alright so im new to this whole solaris thing but have been working on learning new programming languages for some time now but i cant seem to figure out how to use .exe files on the Solaris 10 OS. if someone could point me in the right direction then it would be greatly ...

Hello everyoneHas anyone come across the case where the CRS services of Oracle causethe public interface to get turned off and then restored at randomtime intervals? To elaborate, we have a 2 node cluster database.Solaris 10, Oracle 10gR2 RAC with patch 10.2.0.3 applied. No SUNclustering is ...

People,I'd like to know if it is possible to call out using pppd from insidea zone?I have added the device cua0 to the zone and verified the modem working withtip. Both in the global zone and my zone.Running "pppd cua0 call myisp" works fine from the global zone, using thestandard pppd. But ...

can someone help me out with this...in the /etc/vfstab on solaris 10there is an entry for fd...fd-/dev/fd fd-no-is this the floppy device....i was wondering because this server is T2000 which doesnt come with a floppy drive. the entry is also showing up in our zones...is it necessary. can i ...

Hello everyone,I am new to Solaris administration and I am trying to find a way to modify the profile of the superuser(root).I wanted to set its ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES, and edit some things necessary.I tried editing /etc/profile and exported some PATH, MANPATH but when I execute "su", it seems ...

Hi,I have successfully configured and populated an LDAP directory server with Solaris name service data. I can bind to it using proxy authentication simple and it works. However I am of the understanding that by doing this the bind password will be transmitted in clear text. I am thinking I ...

I am running Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) without the GUI interface. I cannot, therefore, run the Solaris Management Console.How do I share my disk with Windows systems on the same network using the command line?

when i tried to login ....No utmpx entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "shell".is coming on the screen.

Hi,I was just wondering if it was possible for a process or application running in a non-global zone to ascertain the IP address of the underlying host?For example, if the Solaris machine is located at 192.168.10.86, and I set up three zones that have addresses 192.168.10.248, 249, and 250, but ...

Hi,I have a Solaris 10/SPARC installed on an R420 4CPU 4GB RAM box. I have two build in-disks on controller 0 and a few of them in an array. Only one of them is mounted, rest is off line.When I try to fdisk them, there's no /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 or any devices with *p0 suffix. This is a fresh ...

Folks,Please look at the following description:We have a Start Script (START-PROCESSES script) that starts multiple processes :A ProcessB ProcessC ProcessD ProcessWe have implemented a manifest, and implemented the START / STOP / REFRESH methods, but when any of these process ( A / B / C etc.. ...

AllI created a couple of Whole Root zone's, but the SMC is not working. It can't even be found. (However, on the "sparse" zones, it works fine.)I ran: pkginfo SUNWsmcmdand got:systemSUNWsmcmd System Management Agent applications and utilitiesSo, it seems like it's installed, but it ain't ...

hi,i have downloaded the solaris 10 cd images from sun. i burned them to a cdusing a cd-rw drive on a windows xp machine; and nero express cd burningsoftware. the slowest speed that my windows xp cd-rw writer can write at is8x. for some reason, my sunblade 100 cd-rom drive cannot read the ...

Hello,I am running Sol 10 11/06 for sparc on a Sun Blade. I just upgraded to jdk6u1 from jdk5. I installed all required j6 packages, and then installed patches for j6u1. I then used pkgrm to remove all jdk5-related packages (I searched for all packages starting with SUNWj5 and then removed ...

Hi all,Need to set the "udp_xmit_hiwat" and "udp_recv_hiwat" to 65536 as the default is only 8192 this is required by the Oracle RAC, using the "ndd" command will change the value but upon reboot the changes are lost. I can change using the "rc" scripts, but is there another command that will ...

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Greetings!So, I've fancied to install Solaris (Opensolaris 10) on a computer as a windows alternative, it is an IBM T42 (Pentium-M 1.5GHz, 1GB DDR); Installing was fine and fast. Booting, however, ...It takes about 15 min before prompting a login screen. As I'm absolutely new to Solaris (with ...

Hi,I've been trying to restore the root password on a server (V240) where the previous tech guys has left our company. I've come to the point where I need to mount the root disk after breaking the OS and run boot cdrom -s. Now I get this error:# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /amount: ...

Hi,I am trying to get the MAC address of the NIC from a non-global zone using 'dlpi'. But I am not able to retrieve the MAC adress . Is it possible to get the MAC address from a non-global zone ? Thanks and Regards,Basent V

I received my 11/06 free Solaris 10 DVD a while ago and went to download the Companion DVD as according to this site http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ it has the MySQL-Python module.It doesn't and it's not available as a downloadable package on it's own. Am I just blind or is it ...

I need Apache2 with the following modules:mod_proxy, mod_proxy-html, and mod_proxy_balancermod_rewritemod_deflatemod_headers(optional) mod_cache and one of mod_memcache or mod_filecache(optional) mod_sslDo I need to recompile Apache2 from source? How do I handle replacing or removing installed ...

Good mornin gents,I was trying to find out a way to implement an autologout(15 minutes) with ssh in Solaris10.I have tried to set as recommended in /etc/ssh/sshd_config the following parameters - ClientAliveInterval - ClientAliveCountMaxas described in tha man pages in vain.I have been told ...

HelloTrying to install Solaris 10 on IBM Laptop Model no. ThinkPad T40Downloaded Solaris 10 for x86 platfrom from sun website.When powered on it boots from Solaris 10 CD.Control goes to GRUP promptPlease let me know, how do I proceed to install.Thanks in advance for your ...

Folk'ses,the use and functioning of Update Manager seems to be getting better now. Today I was able to do an install of 80+ patches without an error msg ;)however, I have the problem, that update manager always shows me a number of patches which I don't need or want, eg for drivers of devices ...

Hi,I recently created a mirrored setup according to http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/svm_mirroring.htmlHowever, now when I've rebooted the disk-setup looks like follows.# df -kFilesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@0,0:a ...

Hello,I am trying to connect a USB to SATA/IDE Adapter to a USB port on Solaris 8. In the /var/adm/messages file, two messages show the following:usba: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/usb@c,3 (ohci0): getting device status failed (-1)usba: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/usb@c,3 (ohci0): connecting device on port 1 ...

Is there anyway to determine the specific release of Solaris? If I use uname -r then it only gives me like 5.10, but I want to know if it is Solaris 10 11/06.