Hi Techies,I am facing a problem configuring crossbow on sun4v Sun Fire T2000 server.I have downloaded nightly-bins-20070501.sparc.tar and bfu.sh from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/pre-beta/and followed the installation procedure...# cd /tmp/crossbow# /usr/bin/bunzip2 ...

Can anyone give me ideas on what software to use to back up Solaris 10 Servers ( V240, 490, & 890). We researched Veritas and they want $15,000. Is there any software with some of the same features as Netbackup?Thanks in Advance!!!

What anti-virus if any do you guys have installed on your Solaris machines and how much did you have to pay?

ive seen 4 downloads slots in the x86_64 genre but the main os downloads are less than 600mb? or should i get the bonus software? makes no sense to me?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I don't see a g77 executable in /usr/sfw/bin, is there an official package for it, like there is a SUNWgcc with the gcc and g++ compilers?

We need to calucalate the size of a directory. Right now we are doing stat() on the individual files in the directory, and adding up their sizes to get te size of the directory. Is there a more efficient way to do this?Appraciate your thoughts and ideas.Venu

Hi,is it possible to use software compiled on Solaris 10 sparc on a x86 system?Thanks for any hints in advance.Burkhard

Hi,We have installed three instances of Oracle on differenet zones across different servers. We followed all the best practices from sun & oracle. But our DBA say there is performance degradation on Sun servers as compare with the same installation on Intel servers. (He showed me some ...

Hi,Other day, a guy was running the format command in SunOS 5.8 and he killed the process to end it. Now whenever you try to run format again, it hangs with the message "Searching for disk...".Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Is there a lock file somewhere that I can delete?The system ...

Hi,I am planning to give solaris 10 Certification SA-1.Please, can you tell me from where i can get study guide and test dumps for certification? Can anyone send me these documents if have? And what is the best way to pass the exam?Thanks,Raj

Hello,I just a bought a Gateway laptop that has Vista installed. I want to install Solaris 10 on the laptop and use it as a standalone system. I've looked all over the net to check if anyone has done the same. All I've seen is dual boot with vista and solaris. I've also used the Sun Device ...

Hi,I have struggled now for a while with the interface configuration on Solaris 10. I want to configure a logical interface with IP address and netmask, but not have it set to "up". I merely want to prepare it for failover, handled by a seperate program.After finding out that the startup script ...

Hi,does anyone knows how to start up Solaris without the "welcome screen" window? I have some problems with mi pc, when Solaris starts, the screen turns into a pshycodelic cascade of colors, but the system can stil be acceded by an ssh client throgh the network.So, the system is up, but in the ...

I have a Sparcstation 5 that I have dusted off and thought it might be nice to run Solaris 10 on it - it runs Solaris 8 just fine. Alas I got the message "does not run on this hardware..." My aim was familiarisation and practice, so I'm going to have to use Solaris 9. The Sparcstation is a ...

HiI'm trying to install a new copy of the solaris 10 dvd on my x64 intel machine.I noticed that it couldn't get into a windowed mode installation soI've tried to install it under VMWARE workstation 6 with the iso image firstin order to test things:I've noticed that during installation after ...

Dear all I have Solaris 10 running on V880 with Ultra320PCI/PCI-X card in 66 Mhz slot .SCSI HBA is connected to Multipack SCSI IN portOut port SCSI Terminator is connected Multipack can be detected at Ok prompt but not at OSlevel please see the console message below & i havedone following ...

Hi ,I am facing some problem in XVFB in solaris 10 not able to connect to GUI from windows desktop , totally unaware where to go search and how to proceed , I want to know how to chk ,start , and wat ever related vxfb related services in solaris 10thks TaD

Hi,After executing rsh command it is asking for a password. I want to login to a target machine with rsh command through the scripts which it shouldnot ask for a password. It will be appreciated if anyone can help me in solving out this issue?

I have a system that is running Solaris 10 Update 3 TX with 1 zpool and 5 zones. Everything on it is running fine. I take the drive to my disk duplicator and dupe it bit by bit to another drive, put the newly duped drive in the same machine and boot it up everything boots up fine. Then I do a ...

Hi,I try to create .iso file with 'mkisofs' command for bootable dvd to install Solaris 10 flash archive from dvd.I used the following command and options to create:# mkisofs -R -D -d -L -l -o s9u5.S0 s0then cat all the files together# cat dvd.vtoc s0 pad.s0 s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 > ...

Hello all,I am running Solaris 10 and am getting 'out of disk space' messages from the kernel but a df -k shows that only 90% is used and that around 4Gb is available.I cannot write to this partition though!What could be the cause of this?ThanksSRG

Hi, On solaris 10 machine when creating a zone the default config it is creating with is as below:# zonecfg -z Yalong6zonecfg:Yalong6> infozonepath: /Yalong/Yalong6autoboot: falsepool:inherit-pkg-dir:dir: /libinherit-pkg-dir:dir: /platforminherit-pkg-dir:dir: /sbininherit-pkg-dir:dir: ...

I am fairly new to Solaris and got Solaris 10 6/06 Developer media kit in the mail. When I attempt to install it on my machine I get an error 28 can not load into memory and goes into a cycle back to the choice of which OS to load.I have a Dell Dimension 8100 which is listed in the Solaris HCL, ...

Hi, i am stuck in the failsafe mode or if i even try to login from the single user mode i need a text editor all the editors in solaris 10 are useless they are graphical but i am stuck in command line please guide me something simple such as vim in linux because vim in solaris has problem even ...

Dear all,I have one partition /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 mounted at /u05 initially. Due to some region I had to unmount /u05, I tried to unmount /u05 but I got messages saying 揅annot mount /u05 is busy?/i> I could see no one accessing /u05, and forcefully unmounted the partition. Now the problem is that ...

Hi , I having desktop with celeron processor 2. 53 ghz 512 memory 80 gb seagate harddisk , I wanna install solaris x86 in that one is there way to chk the h/w compatibility before installing , I triied to install couple of times but after install it gives error the out of frequency in the ...

i have read something about this:Bundled Software Unlike previous releases of Solaris where Sun provided a Companion CD with various tools, Solaris 10 (if a Full Distribution installation is done) comes with 185 packages, 30 of them directly supported by Sun: Apache http server versions 1.3.33 ...

I have a static library (C and CPP) built in SunOS 5.8 and now have to move to SunOS 5.10. I have taken the built libraries of 5.8 and built executable in 5.10. So can anyone please tell me if this would cause any problems in runtime or do i need to re-build the libraries in 5.10?

HiCan anybody tell me what is the diff between above ps commands.1. /usr/sbin/ps2. /usr/ucb/psThanksRajan

Is there a way I can verify that my 2 internal drives (Pre-Installed Sol10) on my v490 are in fact RAID1.thanksJW

Hi: I am a Windows expert because of my work but I am trying to get away from it at home while still being able to run Windows Applications in their native environment. So I read somewhere that is possible to install and run Windows in a Solaris 10 Zone (Container). Since I am not that ...

Hello,My HP deskjet 3650 prints too slow under solaris 10x86. I haveonly one choice for a driver: foomatic/hpijs. Does anyone have the same problem? How solve it? Thanks.

Hi,I have installed Solaris 10, with sendmail and imap, but port 25 does not work from a terminal. Only works from the console of the server.I have checked services file, and the line for port 25 is not commented.Port 110 reply OK!What is missing?Thanks

i have solaris 10 installed on x86, and the OS cant see the network card,how can i install the network card

Assue I have two system user. One is root and other is sys. And I have two non-global zones and one global zone. In the global zone, I logged in as root. and use command: crontab -e sys to add a cron job.After that, I also would like to add the job in two non-global zones. So I logged in ...

Is there a known Solaris 10 RAID software package? Or do I need to use raidctlThanksJW

Hi everybody,I got a problem, the service sysidtool:net is offline, but :bash-3.00# svcs -l sysidtool:netfmri svc:/system/sysidtool:netname sysidtoolenabledtruestateofflinenext_stateonlinestate_timeFri Jun 29 07:56:49 ...

I have added a new Sunfire v440 server to my network; I need to make it the NIS master. Current NIS configuration: Ultra60 (Solaris 8) is NIS master, Samba server, license server and NFS file server; v440 (Solaris 10) is a NIS slave,Ultra10 (Solaris 8) is a NIS slave. Planned NIS configuration: ...

Can someone help me. While trying to install solaris 10 in my ultra 80. I keep getting a hangup while discovering additional network configurations. How can I disable this so it doesnt happen anymore.

Dear all,I have one Netra Server configured Raid 1 in its boot disk. Now one of my disk is gone bad, and due to some reasone I need to reboot the system. It is not boooting up and showing the error messages in it. How can I boot this system now, with the help of single disk.Best ...

Hi,Does anybody know which procedures are needed to install a new internal disk in a SunFire V245 machine?Thanks,Daniel

I just installed the latest 10_Recommended cluster with 118833-36 kernel patch and now my zones won't boot. I get the error:(root)Yes Master?> zoneadm list -iv ID NAME STATUS PATH 0 globalrunning/- sambainstalled/export/home/zones/samba- web installed/export/home/zones/web- dhcp ...

The following posix timer works on Solaris 6 & 8, but drifts on Solaris 10 (6.5 seconds behind after 1 minute execution) : Any ideas? Ralph Lecessi ralph.lecessi@lmco.com ****************************** #include <semaphore.h>#include <thread.h>#include <time.h>#include ...

I have an Ultra 60 Creator 3D. It came pre-installed with Solaris 10, not sure which release (6/6 or 11/6). I'm trying to reinstall with the 11/6 DVD & am receiving:Boot device: cdrom File and args:Bad magic number in disk labelCan't open disk label packageEvaluating: bootCan't open boot ...

Hi,I need to sync my home drive in on london machine to singapore solaris machine.Any suggestion how the rsync command will look like and how can I check if rsync daemon is configured on the machines.Regards,Jeet

Well im about to reinstall Solaris 10 (hate that i just complted the 100+ patches just yesterday) because apparently the file system slice / is too small by default (why?)and im not sure where to make the currection because I actually thought I had done this. During the installation, I selected ...

how would one be able to work out how solaris work out its own process scheduling ? (e.g algorithm ) been flipping the FAQ"s

I am new to this, I just got my solaris dvd set, I have installed it and I tried several times to log in, but I keep running into the same issue, I am able to input my login name, but it refuses to let me type in my password, it doesn't matter what I type, nothing happens, no letters no ...

Hi How do I find the file creation date with out using ls and cut commands ?for example:%filecrdate <name_of the_file>2007-03-04

is there an easier way to get solaris to connect to the internet, because no matter what I do, my connection remains idle, this is getting really annoying.ps, sorry for the change in screen name, I couldn't recover it since I kept getting the username is already taken message, even though I ...