Project Janus - Where and How ?

275 byte By Zoltar1976a at 2007-11-27 11:59:02
<p>Hi</p><p>I've tried searching the forum about "Project Janus" for running linux apps</p><p>under Solaris but i found only posts from 2004 year.</p><p>So, what's going on with this project and is it ready yet or am i missing</p><p>something ?</p><p>Thanks in advance.</p>

ALOM password reset

1283 byte By michael_geddesa at 2007-11-27 11:57:57
I was shipped a V240 from another office. I don't have the root password or the ALOM password. I figured there would be simple documentation from Sun on resetting the ALOM password so I could get to the ok prompt to reboot the computer. Unfortunately most of the ALOM documentation indicates ...

Avoid Page Jumping

463 byte By leogilsa at 2007-11-27 11:54:53
Hello Genius,We ve written the coding in java swing for hotel billing projectwe ve done all the things. our billing size s 4''x4''after printout we tear off the paper bt giving nxt printthe page jumping upto 1.5'' then print we ve to avoid how to avoid page feeding we checked all printer ...

interconnect with a crossover cable (NIC bge1) does not work in Solaris 10

1017 byte By Rebecca730a at 2007-11-27 11:51:38
I connected two systems with a crossover cable for Oracle 10gR2 RAC like below commands.systemA> ifconfig bge1 plumbSystemA>ifconfig bge1 192.168.2.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 upsystemB> ifconfig bge1 plumbSystemB>ifconfig bge1 192.168.2.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 upThe I connected with a crossover ...

Arithmetic comparison in Shell Script

519 byte By jagreenwooda at 2007-11-27 11:44:13
Hello,I wrote a script to check the version of Firefox and update it if its older the 2.0.0.5.It seems that -lt, -gt, or -eq does not look at anything after the first decimal. So, if my current version is 2.0.0.4, Firefox does not get updated.The portion of code that is giving me a problem is ...

need help to configure CMI9880 audio card

480 byte By marsmusiciana at 2007-11-27 11:43:38
hello to everyone! :) I' ve installed Solaris 4 days ago and I really need help , I m confused! : S . .. where can I find driver for my integrated sound card CMI9880 e and first of all how can I install them since I did not manage to find in the terminal a command line like the .\config or the ...

help to explain the truss output

451 byte By kdusta at 2007-11-27 11:41:44
the init process on a solaris box is using 20% CPU. I am not sure whatit is doing. truss output shows it is looping. Could someone explainthis section of the truss output:setcontext(0xFFBEF318)Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x00031D04siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x0000000CReceived signal ...

Has anyone successfully install the driver of the Marvell 88E8038

112 byte By sweetraya at 2007-11-27 11:40:17
<p>Hi everyone</p><p>I can't install the driver,which the system notes me that:the driver havn't attached.</p>

How to expand a root partition

952 byte By vctrmariana at 2007-11-27 11:39:01
Hi,I want to expand my root partition which is extremely small (4Gb). I installed some programs and I am almost full. The home directory is far to large for my needs (92Gb). What would be the simplest way to do this. I am quite new in Solaris. Or do I have another method to install new programs ...

set up ipmp after scinstall

476 byte By grsiepkaa at 2007-11-27 11:36:15
Hi, yes I know what you are thinking, you should definitely set up IPMP before doing the cluster install. But, what if you didn't. SC3.2 and Solaris 10 06/06I just set up a single interface group on each node, but scstat does not show IPMP groups set up, it actually looks like this:-- IPMP Groups ...

Solaris & DHCP question...

482 byte By amb_lewa at 2007-11-27 11:36:10
Hi All:I've been away from Solaris for a while, so sorry for the dumb question...I installed Solaris on an x86 box, configuring it to use DHCP. (SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc)The host name is coming up "unknown". Is there any way to set the host name on the DHCP interface? ...

run exe

200 byte By jiong_ronga at 2007-11-27 11:35:30
<p>hi, I am newly to solaris, i just install solaris OS from DVD, anyone can tell me how to run a exe file on Solaris? because many application or driver need me to run exe file to run or install.</p>

Launching SunPlex in browser wants to download BIN file

657 byte By jackpala at 2007-11-27 11:34:25
I've had this problem on several other Sun based browser products. Sun Managment Console does the same thing to me. Basically I've installed the cluster portion of the Java Enterprise Suite. I try to launch the admin console using. http://mynode:6789and the browser wants to download a BIN file. ...

Installation of SUN V890 Server in Cluster

279 byte By B.V.B.KUMARa at 2007-11-27 11:30:29
<p>Hi All,</p><p>I have 2-node Sun V880 database cluster in ORACLE 10g RAC. Now i want remove V880 Server from Cluster and add new V890 Server in to that. Is it possible? Cluster combination of Sun V890, V880 will work or not. Please suggest me.</p><p>regards</p><p>BVB Kumar</p>

can't find solaris 9 installation cd image

438 byte By osmanonura at 2007-11-27 11:27:42
hi people,i need solaris 9 installation cd image ver. 12/03 and/or later but i can not find it any where. i need to reboot the system in single user mode, make some changes to driver_aliases file and reboot the system but of course in order to do this i need solaris 9 installation cd which i don't ...

Root & User Passwords accept any digits

967 byte By Khuz.za at 2007-11-27 11:26:34
Hi Guys,Need some help please, setting up a new server SunFire V240 with Solaris 9 SPARC.Only after setup complete have I realized that the passwords for all users, including root, can accept any digit as a replacement for any numeric value that exists in their passwords.E.G. If the password is ...

skyr@cer usb wifi: installing zydas driver

1575 byte By karelgha at 2007-11-27 11:20:37
Hi,First and foremost, I hope that this stands in the right place. I'm new to these forum, and seen the fast that this is not high performance networking, I have put this here. I hope this is right?Now to the point. I have just installed solaris 10 as my first non windows OS. Perhaps this was not ...

Unable to Change Pingpong_interval

1496 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 11:19:59
Dear all Oracle malfunctioned on Sun Cluster 3.2 running on Solaris 10 , and try to failover few times and after i dont let be restart resourse group .i tried to change Pingpong_interval but was giving me the following errorsJul 22 00:21:50 PR5 Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 674214 daemon.notice] rebalance: ...

Dynamic DNS on Solaris 10 or Solaris developer edition

274 byte By Kinshuka at 2007-11-27 11:14:42
<p>Hi , </p><p>How do we can configure Dynamic DNS server on Solaris 10 OS , in Linux boxes we can use "dnssec-kegen" and associate with dhcpd.conf , how like same we can do with solaris ,</p><p>any help will be highly appreciable </p><p>Thanks in advance </p><p>Kinshuk</p>

metdetach in multiuser mode Options

234 byte By ShamimZakia at 2007-11-27 11:12:39
<p>Hi,</p><p>Good day !!!</p><p>Is there any chance of data corruption of the tape drive or the hard disk if I apply metdetach in the multi-user mode and take a backup of the detached hard disk ?</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Shamim A M Zaki</p>

Memory and swap problem

3556 byte By Vodola at 2007-11-27 11:06:24
I have a question regarding memory and swap calculations in Solaris.I have box that has 2GB of RAM and 3GB of swap. I use ps command to check how much memory each program consumes. When I sum results I get numbers those are much smaller than memory and swap sizes: sum of the total size of the ...

mailx unable to send mails to outside world?

180 byte By K79a at 2007-11-27 11:05:07
<p>hi</p><p>on a solaris sparc 9 environment <b>mailx</b> command is unable to send mails to the outside world. What could be the reason & needs to be checked?</p><p>thanks</p>

crontab not working?

373 byte By K79a at 2007-11-27 11:04:43
Hi,I have a Solaris sparc 5.9 setup. When I give the command crontab -e, instead of opening an editor the control comes to the next line with 0 displayed. Then I have to use CTR+Z to come back to the prompt. The have pasted the screen shot of the same:$ crontab -e0^Z[2]+ Stopped crontab -e$Kindly ...

sun sparc20

408 byte By nagygamala at 2007-11-27 11:03:38
dear all,i am new in sun system & i have sun sparc 20 with external HDD 9GB .this HDD faile & i replace it with the new one HDD 18GB & format it as the old one for (/var , /usr2, /usr4) and i restore usr4 & usr2 successfully & /var but when I make a reboot & making df k I ...

need help

408 byte By nagygamala at 2007-11-27 11:03:31
dear all,i am new in sun system & i have sun sparc 20 with external HDD 9GB .this HDD faile & i replace it with the new one HDD 18GB & format it as the old one for (/var , /usr2, /usr4) and i restore usr4 & usr2 successfully & /var but when I make a reboot & making df k I ...

Storage Assesment on Solaris 9 & 10

915 byte By nicole1980a at 2007-11-27 11:00:04
Hi All,I've been tasked with doing a storage assessment of our Sun servers. We need to find out the following from our servers:1. Largest files2. Duplicate files3. Total used space4. Total free space5. Files not accessed in over a year6. Files not backed up.7. Output should be easily put in a ...

submirror names and jumpstart

558 byte By pppooopa at 2007-11-27 10:58:12
I am trying to install Solaris 10 U3 via jumpstart. I would like to set up the server so that it is running SVM after the install. The following profile gets close to what I want:filesys mirror:d0 c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 8192 /filesys mirror:d10 c0t0d0s1 c0t1d0s1 8192 swapfilesys mirror:d30 c0t0d0s3 ...

DNS and Static IP Address Question on Solaris v10 X86

7216 byte By mburkeoha at 2007-11-27 10:57:58
Ive recently installed Solaris v10 X86 and have two questions. The system is a Dell E521 with 4GB RAM and 1GB SysKonnect NIC, and internet is provided via a cable modem, thats plugged into a Netgear router, and the Solaris 10 box is plugged into the Netgear router via a CAT5 ethernet cable.1. I can ...

Solaris 10 - sun4v - unsupported platform group?

1108 byte By walter_sa at 2007-11-27 10:57:27
After a bit of searching I've found this question asked in various places in this forum without having an answer. Is anyone able to help me and the others ...

About format . Please help me!

1216 byte By lhja at 2007-11-27 10:53:56
hello! admin!environment: 2 X E2900 + 2 X Brocade fc switch + 1 X SE6130system:solaris10U2;cluster 3.1;userd MPXIO Two machine hostname:one is systong ,the other is synbak.At synbak execute format is Normal.But at systong execute format#formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. ...

Sunfire with Solaris 8 - Best way to transfer all data

539 byte By DonaldRa at 2007-11-27 10:51:31
Can anyone tell me what method is best to take all the data from one system : Sunfire V250 to another system Sunfire V125.Using Solaris 8 on the source machine.Planning to upgrade on the SunfireV125 after the restore, to Solaris 10 and all its apps.The only apps installed on the source machine is ...

Thorny locale issue..

1404 byte By DexterFa at 2007-11-27 10:50:51
Two machines, A, which is Solaris 9 and B which is Solaris 10.Both built by Jet, some months apart with the following as the locale definition.base_config_sysidcfg_system_locale=en_GB.ISO8859-15Both systems have the /etc/default/init set the same, ...

whereis command

129 byte By kaush28a at 2007-11-27 10:49:12
<p>I wonder where did 'whereis' command do in solaris. I thought it was not a platform specific uinix command.</p><p>Mahima</p>

Firefox flash plugin - Not working

838 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:48:35
Hi Friends,I have installed Firefox and it is working perfect in my Solaris X86 system version 5.10 . Now when i installed the flash plugin and tried to access a flash file embedded html file, it is not working.The error log is as follows:LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library ...

Firefox flash plugin - Not working

799 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:48:31
Hi Friends,I have installed Firefox and it is working perfect. Now when i installed the flash plugin and tried to access a flash file embedded html file, it is not working.The error log is as follows:LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so ...

ulimit values are retrieved from where

122 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:46:34
<p>I would like to know where is the ulimit value stored in the shell. And how to get or modify it using the C program</p>

Cluster mgmt of off-network (multihomed) addresses

960 byte By pochena at 2007-11-27 10:44:46
I'm currently in the process of configuring an HA cluster to replace a single machine. The original machine had virtual interfaces plumbed for several different networks, which remote sites connect to for FTP and other data. I'd like to know how to do the same using the cluster (3.1 on Solaris 9 ...

Migrating the Solaris version

236 byte By resource_namea at 2007-11-27 10:43:50
<p>Hi,</p><p>We have Solaris 9 with the Sun cluster 3.2 and the Netbackup application is 5.1 MP4, now we are planned to upgrade the Solaris version form 9 to Solaris 10.</p><p>Could you please provide me an Idea How to upgrade this?</p>

Upgrade SOL9 to 10, install complete but pb witch CD2?

1307 byte By PetiteBullea at 2007-11-27 10:42:53
Hi everybody,I am trying to install SOL10 on a SUN V120, and the installation goes well, CD1 finishes with install complete, then reboots and asks me for CD2 but once CD2 inserted I get error messages:"Error for command : read(10) --FatalRequested block : 10207Error blockVendor : TEAC Serial ...

mount usb thumbdrive

305 byte By SunOSnewbiea at 2007-11-27 10:38:54
hi there,need your help.i run #volcheck when i'd like to detect the mounted floppy disk.what about usb thumbdrive? wud like to mount it and access it but i cant see is when i run df -k.please help how i can mount my thumbdrive and the files on ...

Patches for Solaris Express, Developer Edition

261 byte By calmanFischera at 2007-11-27 10:37:25
<p>Are there patches for sxde somewhere around? Or do I just have to install the solaris 10 patches? the update manager doesn't work on my system, though every other java application which connects to the internet works, so I have to install them manually.</p>

Can I setup Solaris 10 and Windows XP correspoing on only one HDD?

224 byte By TuanAnhTrana at 2007-11-27 10:36:56
<p>Dear all!</p><p>My PC has only one HDD, but some time, I need the Windows XP to do my private working, and so, I do not know how to set up Windows XP and Solaris corresponding within my PC? </p><p>Thank you very much!</p>

please help me extract info from tape

963 byte By aliansa at 2007-11-27 10:36:39
I have a client that wishes to extract data from tape. The tape was produced using cpio commands on an unknown unix machine. The tape is a SLR5 4/8gb. The client purchased a drive for me. I installed the drive on my compaq deskpro En series PII/400 . The drive is scsi, and I connected it with an ...

E450 won't power up

528 byte By npeasea at 2007-11-27 10:36:00
Hello all! I am new here and also fairly new to SUN hardware. I have an E450 that I am playing with, but I can't get it to power up. I have a sun keyboard and mouse hooked up along with a sun monitor. When I flip the power supply botton on the back to on there are some green lights that light up. ...

VCS to Sun Cluster migration

159 byte By maxpila at 2007-11-27 10:35:42
<p>I am planning to migrate a 2-node cluster from VCS to Sun Cluster. how much downtime does this involve? is there any documentation that i can reference?</p>

Help mounting disks on a fresh Solaris 10 11/06 install on E3000

373 byte By kamau-na at 2007-11-27 10:31:20
Hi all, I just completed a fresh installation on an Enterpise 3000 that had Solaris 7 with 10 disks. Only the disks with the OS got mounted by the installation process, and I cannot figure how to mount the other disks. I have manually added the entries to vsftab but am hessitant to modify mnttab. ...

Need Jre 1.5.0_11 for solaris9

122 byte By sundaresana at 2007-11-27 10:30:41
<p>Hi i need Jre 1.5.0_11 for my sparc 64 bit bit solaris system .Can any one provide me the link to download the same</p>

Solaris x86 VS Solaris SPARC

93 byte By 54645a at 2007-11-27 10:28:14
<p>Hi </p><p>Can any one tell me the merits and deerits of the x86 and SPARC</p><p>Thanks</p>

Problem installing solaris on laptop with intel 965 graphics card

380 byte By DeepankarBairagia at 2007-11-27 10:27:13
Unable to start X. Went through the text-based installation, everything else wentokay. After installation when booting, X windows start failed again and complainedabout vesa driver. Build: SXDE build 64a. Machine: dell latitude D630 with intel 965integrated graphics. Wondering if some patch needs ...

DS6 in Sun cluster

477 byte By aus-ita at 2007-11-27 10:21:00
HiI am doing DS 5.2 migrate to DS6.1. I have DS5.2 and messaging server 6.2 in cluster environment. I am OK with migration process but how to replace existing ldap resource in cluster with the new setting. My messaging resource is dependent on ldap (5.2) resource. I would like to add new ldap ...