I need to install patch 114344-25 on a Sun Sunfire V120. On reading about the patch install it states other patches needed are 112233-12112912-01115683-02 (or greater)I have 115683-03 installed on this sever.Do I need the first two patches (112233-12 & 112912-01) as well?Thanx in advance ...

What are the neccessary changes do i need to make on solaris 9 box in order to see the Solaris 9 screen on my Window XP desktop. I have enabled the following setting such as ./dtlogin -daemon enableBut still it keep XDMCP timed out.Any body has any idea about ...

Hi Team ,I going to prepare for the exam Solaris 10 OS Security Administration. At present, I not having proper document. I am also searched the web sites, but i didn't find. Please let us know URL for the documents.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Can I use HPC Cluster Tools 7 on a Pentium D computer?On the Sun website it says it supports only opteron processors.I installed it, however I wonder if it will work.For HPC Cluster Tools 6 it says it supports x64 processors.Is the Pentim D a x64 processor or is it not included in this category ...

Solaris 10 Install Hangs at 15% on my HP DL 585I have taken out all the additional extra cards so I am left with the basic box, it has been configured to run in Raid 1 so my four disks become two.I can still get it to bring up a shell and do other things, but the installer just appears not to ...

Hi all!!This is my first post here... I hope to find an answer... :DI'm a new sys admin of two Sunblade 2000. My knowledge about solaris is poor. I have a problem with Solaris 9 and grapichs.When I lunch various applications, the colour of these application are incorrects. For example, when I ...

Why am I getting "at: bad time specification" whenever I try at command?I tried the following and a couple of variations:at -f myExecutable -t 10:11Everytime I get the same error message.May I know the exact syntax of at ? I am using Sun OS ...

patch "114312-01 - CDE1.5: GNOME/CDE Menu for Solaris 9" is listed as "Recommended" on this GNOME patch list page: http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/patches.xml but when i tried to download patch 114312-01 from http://sunsolve.sun.com/private-cgi/pdownload.pl?target=114312-02&method=h i ...

Environment:2 node, failover cluster running SC3.1u4 on Solaris 9Hi,Can anyone tell me how I can monitor my cluster via snmp without having to use SMC?RIght now, we have the sun-cluster-mib.mib loaded into a mib browser. We cannont get snmp to respond at all.Is there a way to get this to work ...

Dose solaris has server software so I get set up it on a server ?

Yeah, I'm sure you've seen this topic before, because it came up quite a few times over my past week or so of googling. Yet despite all that, I still can't get my network card to work.A couple detais: Solaris 10, x86, installed on a basic Dell machine. Motherboard networking (3Com ...

Hi AllI need to invoke cluster commands from c/c++ code and parse the output to retrieve neccessary fields e.g status to be used in program.e.g#cluster statusI need to capture output and use it in c/c++ code.Does any one have tried to use new cluster 'cl' commands from c/c++ ...

I am going to replace the D1000 to SAN storage (HDS, AMS500). that meen that I am going to use Luns on my suncluster.As I see it, I just need to :1. configure luns to the nodes in the cluster2. configure new disk set on the luns from the SDS, 3. makeing the filesystem on them & copy the ...

Hello,I found that if I change /etc/system with the following extra parameters, I need to install patch 108901-02 in Solaris 8:set rpcmod:svc_default_stksize=0x4000set lwp_default_stksize=0x4000What about if I'm running Solaris 9? Do I need to install this patch or if the fix of this patch is ...

Hello,Does anybody know the trick how to skip un-used network interfaces during Solaris installation? The install script tries to configure all network interfaces and it takes too long to wait. Is there any way to speed up this process?Thanks.

I have a Dell D820 laptop with Windows XP and Fedora 6 installed on the hard drive. I downloaded the DVD image of Solaris 10 and this is what happens when I boot to the DVD:1. "Loading Stage 2" is displayed2. Options to run Solaris, Solaris Serial Con ttya, Solaris Serial ttyb3. "..........." ...

G'day,I want to install solaris 10 on my IBM xSeries eServer 235 and install starts fine but straight away it complains about not finding any HDDs and exits.I do have HDDs installed, three infact.They are SCSI on the IBM ServeRAID adaptor and i have used ServerGuide to reformat the disks but ...

helloI have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage).1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM?2. how I descover luns on the PROM?-Details :-ok show-devs...../pci@1d,700000/fiber-channel@1,1/pci@1d,700000/fiber- channel@1.....format (the lun is):4. ...

Hi.I'm having the some issues with the O.S starting.The O.S seems to be installed ,but after booting ,the screen "install additional software appears.When I try to install "software5" I recieve the message "disk not found".If I try to skip the install, and select restart,the system doesnt ...

hi, the aim is to install another drive and make it a backup/resilience to the current drive which is already running check point firewall.i have tried the following commandraidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0and get the following error:device does not support requested actiondrive has been check to make ...

1) Solaris X86 11/06 installed on a Intel Core 2 Duo,S975XBX10GB Partitioned for Solaris20GB Partitioned for Linux2) menu.lst edited to add support for Linux (To ensure linux boot options are not missed. )Thanks to the article http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/multiboot_laptop.html3) ...

Hi,Solaris installed fine and can log in as root, but not with my other usercode, the screen flickers and then goes back to the login prompt. I can login from the command line.Someone suggested that my mistake was logging in as root 1st (I got over excited and didn't think), so I've made a ...

yesterday i tried to install solaris. at the beginning it tried to install network for nearly 5 minutes (but i have adsl, so it didn't work ). then it didn't like my hdd and suggested to delete all partitions and create a own one. because i didn't like it, i didn't do itthe problem is now: ...

Attempting to install Solaris 10 u3 x86 on an HP DL320s.Hp has provided Solaris 10 drivers for the P400 array controller.I can boot from HP's iLo virtual cdrom but when I attempt to "Apply driver updates" for the array controller (from the same cdrom drive I booted from) the installation it ...

Hi,I've just downloaded VMware for Solaris Express, Developer Edition from the developers.sun.com site at: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solexpdev/I'm running it under VMware Server Console 1.0.3 on Windows XP.After entering my hostname (ferrari-devx) during the sys config phase ...

Hi I am new to sun cluster, in the cluster documentation they mentioned that each node should have 2 network cards one for public connections and one for private connection. what if I do not want the nodes to have public connections except for one node. In other words, I want to use one network ...

Hello,I am trying to do mirror in solaris 9 using Solaris Volume Manager. I have total 0-7 disks4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3Drive 0 and Drive 4 = Boot DrivesNeed to Mirror following drives.Drive 1 and Drive 5 = Need to mirrorDrive 1 was mounted on: /prod1, /prod2, /prod3, /prod4, /prod5.Drive 5 was mounted ...

i would like to install the latest version of ipfilter (4.1.20) for my solaris x86 is there any good tutorial for this?i tried to install the ipfilter and pfil but somehow i always stuck with this error kimak# pwd/export/home/lost+found/pfilkimak# make packagei=`uname -s`; case $i in HP-UX) ...

Hi Any face this problem ..............................I have created a local user account in solaris 9 (NIS is not configured)when i tried to give the password to the user account i am getting permission denied message.Given below is the command i tried..# passwd helloEnter new password : ...

Hi ,I am facing below error on nklookup , ihad entered entries of secondry server in DNS as well as resolve.conf is configured coreectly .Kindly let me know if o have to do anytjhing else .This server is secondry dns server .*** Can't find server name for address 198.152.137.5: Server ...

I've just installed Solaris Express DE under Parallels onan MB15. It works fine, except that root can't make directoriesin /home, or(apparently) change it in any way -- chmod, etcgive errors. Even rmdir /home complains that /home is inuse or a mount point - tho mount shows its not the ...

Hi expert , I have problem in the private network connection , I am using SF490 with interface ce0,ce1 connecting thru cross cable . When i check scstat -W , found ce0,ce1 down .I added the entry set ce:ce_taskq_disable=1 in the /etc/system but still same problem.

i have a V880 server. it have some Logical volume previously. but i want to delete that old Logical volume and then want to create new LV's. so how can i delete the old LV's.

I installed Express snv_55b 64 bit on HP dc7600 with XP.The default installation used DHCP, IPv6. I used ifconfig to change the setup. However, my setup of IP, netmask, defaultrouter etc will all be gone after reboot. I Is this normal? Or this version of Solaris does not allow this kind of ...

I am running a cluster of 329 x86 systems with solaris 10 x86 - 118855-36 andGeneric_125101-06; There are two networks: nge0 and e1000g0, where nge0 isserviing the system services and e1000g0 is serving interprocess communications.As of Tuesday of this week, one large job - 256 cpus with a ...

I found this message in my crontabMay 2 09:02:43 mymachine rmclomv: [ID 627583 kern.error] ENCLOSURE_FAN @ FT1.F0.RS has FAULTED.how can I work it out?Is there some command which can give me more information about the problem?Where can I found more information about what has generated the ...

Hi All ,The below mentioned process is in in defunct state. This process is realated to Sun Cluster. This process having open file in /proc, which occupited 3.7 GB.Restarting the cacaoadm will impact any thing during run level 3.Please confirm.root@DIRPRN2 # ptree -a 20901/etc/init - 2090 ...

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 All ,The syslogd reports the below error message in /var/adm/messagesMay 4 08:26:02 ORADR metadevadm: [ID 209699 daemon.error] Invalid device relocation information detected in Solaris Volume ManagerMay 4 08:26:02 ORADR metadevadm: [ID 912841 daemon.error] Please check the status of the ...

I am having a tomcat application running on solaris 9 and it starts using about 100% CPU after some time. I tried prstat -L and got the threads that were consuming the max CPU. On doing a truss for the process Id I found out the following about those thread. There were about 4 thread that were ...

I installed Solaris 8 2/04 in a Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), the installation finished but when server restarted it displayed this:"loadkeys: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1 Killed kbd: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1 Killed cfsfstype: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1 WARNING: /proc could not ...

I can't connect to the internet and i don't know how!Can someone teach me please :P?

Hi All,Any system call is there which tells us what are the processes listening on a particular port?Looking forward for your response.Thanks-S

Dell PowerEdge SC1425.Unable to install Solaris 10 x86 11/06 on SCSI disk (only one disk) error message: "No Disks can be found".Configuration:SCSI Controller: - Adaptec Embeded SCSI HostRAID ControllerSCSI disk: Segate ST3300007LW SCSI Disk Driver - 300GBUsed install procedure: ...

I'm trying to get a file server up and running. It's using a MSI K7D Master (AMD MPX chipset) with tow MP1700 CPUs, 512 MB (ECC) RAM, and a few other bits. Using Solaris 10u3 (x86), installing from the 5 CDs.For storage, I'm using a Sil3124 with 4 500GB Samsung SATA drives (HD501LJ). When I ...

Hi,My service had died last night suddenly with following error: T H R E A D # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:## SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xfea9883c, pid=21709, tid=3## Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.5.0_10-b03 mixed mode)# Problematic frame:# V ...

Hi. I was running Solaris on my Intel-based desktop machine. It was running fine. One day I upgraded my CPU and since then Solaris won't start. Immediately after it tries to load itself, it displays something on the screen really fast ( something with "dumping" in it) and then reboots.I runned ...

Hi All,Is there any possibility to install all locales using JumpStart Server?I have sysidcfg configuration file:bash-3.00# cat sysidcfg network_interface=PRIMARY { protocol_ipv6=no netmask=255.255.255.0 default_route=10.160.19.1 ...

Dear all Im using samba which comes with Solaris 9 , i want to share unix directory with windows , samba and windows 2003 PDC are on different network , root@server # /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd -VVersion 2.2.12here are the steps i follow:-created computer account for solaris box in Windows domain- ...

Hello Guys,A bigfile is created to fill the filesystem (cat /dev/zero > /bigfile) and crash is seen when the file is deleted. I am seeing this issue with Solaris 11/06 on a HP server.Just wanted to know if this is a known issue or if there is a patch/pointers which can fix this ...