How to add a network unaware service to sun cluster?

455 byte By Ramesh_PS1a at 2007-11-27 6:27:32
Hi,I am using2 - T2000's running on Solaris 10 and using Sun Cluster 3.1 to form a Two node cluster.I have a requirement where I need to run a script infinetly and configure few of the cluster resources to depend on this script.I thought if using GDS to add the script as another resource, but ...

New sun server solaris 9?

250 byte By roelanda at 2007-11-27 6:27:38
Our company is thinking of buying a new sun midrange server.The problem is that our current ERP system only runs on solaris 9.New server are shipped with solaris 10.Is it possible to just install solaris 9 on a new server?

[PROBLEM] Setting multiple NIC's under Solaris 8

1033 byte By man.of.ha at 2007-11-27 6:29:30
Good day everybody, I'm a little bit new to Solaris so there are some misunderstanding. I have 2 NIC's eri0 and eri1, eri0 is in 192.168.0.0 subnet, and eri1 is in 192.168.1.0 subnet, eri0 has static ip, and eri1 is getting it from DHCP. Eri1 is behind soho router that just surve to ...

i cant access to server

411 byte By HYPERTERMINALa at 2007-11-27 6:29:37
Hi.I have a sunfire v245, i commented one line in the /etc/hosts about name of server an ip. I restared the server 2 times and every thing was ok. but when i restarte the server, it磜as go on. I' tried to access by ser mgt, i only saw the logs about the systems, but i can't get a console. ...

Please help, I need to open a port...

257 byte By komputersmana at 2007-11-27 6:29:48
Hello all,I am a newbie to Solaris, I have the need to open port #36678 on a server running Solaris 8. I am sure it is simple but just do not know where to start, I have ran a netstat -a and it is not listening now.Thank you in advance.

zlib - coolstack solaris 10

456 byte By philBrowna at 2007-11-27 6:30:03
Hello,I have installed CSKamp to run joomla which requires zlib.Does a default CSKamp install provide the php-zlib extensions? on the configure command given by phpinfo I can see a --with-zlib=shared,/usr but no further zlib info.I am running a basic networking sol10 headless installation. I ...

zlib - coolstack solaris 10

455 byte By philBrowna at 2007-11-27 6:30:19
Hello,I have installed CSKamp to run joomla which requires zlib.Does a default CSKamp install provide the php-zlib extensions?on the configure command given by phpinfo I can see a --with-zlib=shared,/usr but no further zlib info.I am running a basic networking sol10 headless installation. I ...

solaris 10 (x86 version) as a jumstart server

212 byte By newadmina at 2007-11-27 6:30:21
Hi,I have a pc with cdrom and a netra T1 without cdrom.Wondering if I can use solaris x86 pc to jumpstart netra T1(sparc). I heard linux can jumpstart solaris sparc.thanksjustin

xxattach() and _init() doubts

635 byte By Kaushikgoaa at 2007-11-27 6:30:28
Hi I am new to Solaris Kernel developmentI wanted to know when the xxattach() routine is called.... also, I create a soft-state structure (say mySoftState) and pass it to ddi_soft_state_init() routine inside the _init() routine. Now, the first argument of xxattach is dev_info_t which is a ...

Neebie: Simple Question, USB ports?

980 byte By 3Pca at 2007-11-27 6:32:19
Hi all, I'm new to Solaris, What is the equivilent to COM7 for example in Solaris?My problem is this code:CService srv = new CService("COM7", 57600, "Samsung", "");This works in Windows Vista, but when I try it in Solaris 10 x86 it says no such port.I'm running Solaris in VMware's ...

NIC card on HCL list, but it's not talking. Why?

1056 byte By serendipity1276a at 2007-11-27 6:32:26
Hi, I just finished installing Solaris 10 (11/06) onto my computer. The whole installation installed without errors. Afterwards, I went to the log files and saw that everything seems to have installed OK.After rebooting, I logged in with the CDE environment. Everything appears normal.I editted ...

booting soolaris8 with 128 processors

429 byte By carleshera at 2007-11-27 6:34:48
I'm simulating with simics a Multiprocessor with SPARC and Solaris 8 as OS. I have a working configuration with 64 processors, but when I try to boot a configuration with 128 processor I get the following error :panic [cpu149 ]/thread = 10408000 : add_softintr: exceeded 256 handlersWhat I need ...

how to mount usb device?

628 byte By alexey.m@i.uaa at 2007-11-27 6:35:15
$rmformat :Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1462,7210@1d,7/storage@5/disk@0,0Connected Device: USB FLASH DRIVE 34CHDevice Type: Removablemounting:mkdir /mnt/usbmount -F pcfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt/usbget mount: Block device ...

Install Solaris on SPARC without graphic card.

312 byte By czezza at 2007-11-27 6:35:57
How can I install Solaris on Sun Fire V440 without graphic card ?Someone said it is possible via Console Port or Network using putty. I have never done it before. Is there anyone who has experience with that kind of installation? Does any one can share with advices ?Many ...

fprintf crases

733 byte By ujara at 2007-11-27 6:37:30
Hi All,I am getting this issue , when I am running my test.so under the following OS configuration,uname -a output as the below SunOS hello_test 5.9 Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100,I get Crash occurred in function fprintf from module /usr/lib/libc.so.1.But the same shared ...

Does this mean the NIC card won't work on Solaris 10?

520 byte By serendipity1276a at 2007-11-27 6:37:39
I tried using NICs like Intel PRO/100 S and the 3COM Etherlink 10/100 PCI (3C905C-TXM). I downloaded a software from SUN, made a bootable CD, and when it scanned my PC, it says that likely my hardware will be compatible with Solaris 10 (Nov 2006). Yet,At the beginning of the installation, I see ...

How to install NIC driver on Solaris 10?

276 byte By serendipity1276a at 2007-11-27 6:38:18
I see the driver for my NIC, the D-Link DFE-530TX+ at this site http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/It talked about this NIC on choice #4, but how do I go about installing the driver rf-1.1.0.tar.gz on Solaris 10 x86 to make this NIC work? Thanks.

metastat command help!!!

1021 byte By nwesolowskia at 2007-11-27 6:38:38
Please help!!! I have a SunFire V40z and am running Solaris 10. When I run the metastat command I get the following message:# metastatd0: RAIDState: Needs MaintenanceInvoke: metareplace d0 c4t10d0s0 <new device>Interlace: 32 blocksSize: 1754571105 blocks (836 GB)Original device:Size: ...

Solaris 10 (amd64) and spontaneously high load average problem

1573 byte By mzh46609a at 2007-11-27 6:39:04
[ I may have posted this to the wrong forum "solaris 10 features", so I am reposting here, sorry. ]I have a "server" running Solaris 10. It's an AMD64 server with 1 GB of RAM and a pair of 160 GB SATA disks on an Asus NForce4 board. The system uses SVM to mirror root, and ZFS for home ...

spinlocks and Adaptive Locks in Solaris Kernel development

1657 byte By Kaushikgoa1a at 2007-11-27 6:39:25
I need to use a spinlock in my VMCI Solaris device driver. After reading some documentation, I figured out that there are 2 types of locks in solaris: adaptive locks and spinlocks.Adaptive locks are the most common type in Solaris and they can either 'block' or 'spin' depending on whether ...

Netgear GA311 NIC on HCL list, but not working either. Why?

812 byte By serendipity1276a at 2007-11-27 6:39:44
DLink DFE-530TX+Netgear GA311Intel PRO/1000 MT dual portThe above 3 NICs appeared on the approved HCL list for Solaris 10 (Nov 2006). I went to the store, and bought all 3 of them already.I tried using the DLink DFE-530TX+. It didn't work. I got some results when I ran the ipconfig -a command. ...

Enable ntp client

143 byte By sunone0001a at 2007-11-27 6:42:05
Hi,I need enable ntp client on solaris system, how can i do this? and the O/S have oracle installed. What should I pay attention?

HA Oracle startup/shutdown question

1667 byte By gcebulkaa at 2007-11-27 6:44:38
Environment:2 Sunfire V890's running solaris 2.9 and SC3.1U4Hello All,I am having a problem with oracle startup and shutdown in my cluster. In order to get oracle to startup after a failover, shutdown what have you, I need to implement the following procedure as a pre/post oracle startup ...

ssh connection reuse -- controlmaster feature

1937 byte By pedaraa at 2007-11-27 6:48:10
Hi,I am trying to ssh from a linux box Fedora core 5 to a solaris box running solaris 2.9.On the linux box:[pavan@turing CODE]$ ssh -vOpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005On the solaris box:bash-2.05$ ssh -vSSH Version Sun_SSH_1.0.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.Openssh > 4.0 introduced a ...

SC 3.2 with one NIC

312 byte By przemolba at 2007-11-27 6:48:55
Hello,I am going to learn SC 3.2 and want to deploy testing cluster. Unfortunatelly the hosts I have to do so has only one NIC each. While it is not supported/adviced in production can I install/use/learn SC 3.2 having only one NIC (of course in testing environements) ...

Instal Java 1.5x without X-Window

259 byte By czezza at 2007-11-27 6:48:56
Is that possible to instal JAVA 1.5 without X-Window ? As I found in Java's requirements, it requires browser (Mozilla 1.4+).Browser is useless without X-Window.... What do you think ? What are yours experiences ?Many thanks,czezz

Where can I get Sun Cluster 3.1 if I want to download.

384 byte By Ramesh_PS1a at 2007-11-27 6:49:27
Hi,I have a sun cluster 3.1 setup running and want to add another box. But I am missing the binary and need to install same version for ease of administration.I am searching at sun.com but unable to find sun cluster 3.1.Kindly let me know if i can get sun cluster binary from any link.Thanks for ...

new to Sun, with a second-hand Ultra

637 byte By ChristTrekkera at 2007-11-27 6:53:29
I'm new to the world of Sun, so please go easy on me. :) I'm having a hard time finding what I need on sun.com, so I hope it is OK to ask questions here.I have a second-hand Ultra 5 that was saved from the recycle bin. I hope to get it up and running so I can gain some Solaris experience. I ...

Can you avoid bootp stuff when booting a CD/DVD?

296 byte By MarkDrummonda at 2007-11-27 6:55:04
Is it possible to skip the attempted autoconfiguration of network interfaces when booting from a CD or DVD?If a server has many interfaces, it can spend considerable time trying to configure each one. Pain in the rear when you just want to boot single user.Thanks,Mark

Want to increase the file descriptors

569 byte By ujara at 2007-11-27 6:55:07
Hi,I am trying the increase the max number for file descriptor allowed in Solaris.I changed the ulimit soft value to hard limit value (65536) as a root.Even the ulimit -a shows the change value for the soft limit.When I run my test program to find the value of sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) it shows the ...

Problems installing Solaris 10 on Blade 2000 with XVR-1000

463 byte By castillabra at 2007-11-27 6:56:23
I am experiencing problems installing Solaris 10 on Blade 2000 with XVR-1000 graphic board. The card passes PROM testThe DVD isn't working so I am installing through network.I can install only on text mode (ok boot net - nowin). - install and - text options fails to load graphic ...

containers and ZFS

376 byte By ywlke287a at 2007-11-27 6:59:15
Is it possible to do a "live migration" with a Solaris Container running on HAStoragePlus ZFS (or any other filesystem for that matter)? I'm a bit fuzzy as to what kind of support Cluster 3.2 now offers for Solaris Containers.Specifically something we would like to try at our site is HA-AFS ...

More than 256 file descriptor in Solaris 5.9

216 byte By ujara at 2007-11-27 6:59:52
Hi All,How do I open more than 256 file descriptor using stdio.h and fopen in Solaris 5.9.I guess extendedlib.so.1 is available for solaris 10.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks-A

Unable to boot into single user mode in Solaris 9

1398 byte By AYukiea at 2007-11-27 7:01:20
Hi, I am running Solaris 9 on one of my box.(Enterprise 2)a) shutdown -i S -g 0 -yb) shutdown -i s -g 0 -yc) init 1d) boot -s (from ok prompt)e) boot -S (from ok prompt)Tried Issuing the above mentioned commands brings the system to the below ...

Solaris on AMD X2 4800+

210 byte By jyprakasha at 2007-11-27 7:04:22
I want to buy the System, where I want to install the Solaris. I am looking for the AMD X2 Athalon 4800+. Is it possible to install the Solaris on AMD X2 with Jetway Motherboard. Can you please let know.

Disk Partition

613 byte By EYLawa at 2007-11-27 7:04:51
My root / is 99% full. How can I add more space from what is available. My File System is:Filesystemkbytes usedavailcapacityMounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 4743387 46260316992399%//devices 00 00%/devicesctfs00 00% /system/contractproc00 00% /procmnttab 0000% /etc/mnttabswap 31604409683159472 ...

huge zfs problem

1116 byte By dblue135a at 2007-11-27 7:06:52
I'm a tad overwhelmed at the moment because I think that zfs just ate all of my data. Here's what happened.I created a raidz array of two disks and moved 300 gigs of data onto it. I went to add a third disk to it. The third disk didn't attach in the right place (not in the raidz but parallel ...

KDE?

184 byte By satrycona at 2007-11-27 7:07:58
ive successfully installed solaris 11/06 on my dell D8090 laptop...everythings running fine...i wanted to install KDE as well as an alternative to the java desktop...any ideas ?

vmstat shows processes that are swappped ..

337 byte By SAN@SUNa at 2007-11-27 7:09:27
rb wswapfreere mfpi po fr de srm0 m1 m5 m7insycsus sy id 0 0 102 7577592862512 75 287 107 69 70 0 36 2041 6920 841 8894492this is the snap of vmstat , Which shows 102 processes have been swapped out ( column "w" ) . Wat does that convey ?Does that have any impact on CPU utilization ...

Error while manually applying 118855-36 to Solaris 118855-19

647 byte By Ben.Heimanna at 2007-11-27 7:11:06
Hi!I am trying to apply patch 118855-36 on Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86 with Kernel Generic_118855-19.When I try to install the patch in single user mode I receive the followingerror messages:118855-36 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgaddThe log /var/sadm/patch/118855-36 ...

Installing Solaris10 on Dell Inspiron6400 With Windows Vista

738 byte By Pangalurua at 2007-11-27 7:14:03
Hi Everyone,Can you please let me know how to install solaris 10 on the laptop which has already got windows vista.I have a seperate drive (S:) 10GB for solaris OS.I have got Sun OS 10 DVD from Sun.I tried to install but it was stuck at..when i select Solaris among the three options to boot.It ...

Why did Solaris 10 X86 change the output of the format command?

507 byte By hupceya at 2007-11-27 7:27:43
Solaris 8,9, & 10 for Sparc all display disk manufacturer information on the format command output: 0. c1t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 ... >1. c1t1d0 <SEAGATE-ST3360704FSUN36G-0826 cyl 24620 ... > But for X86 this information is not displayed:0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 17846 ... >1. ...

command to find the data size on the backup tape

235 byte By Cinderella99a at 2007-11-27 7:27:58
Hi,We are backuping several directories (/database, /index) to a backup tape. How could I find out how much space these data are taking on the backup tape? we use the cpio command to backup.Thanks,Cinderella

increadably new at this,please answer instalation question

255 byte By unh0lygh0sta at 2007-11-27 7:28:56
hi i just downloaded all the segments to make a instilation dvd and it says i need to combine them into 1 useing a line of code in msdos... i never use dos and cant figure out what it means to type inMessage was edited by: unh0lygh0st

Solaris 10 on V40z

335 byte By elnuevopajaroa at 2007-11-27 7:29:04
Hi,I am installing Solaris 10 on V40z which comes with a trident blade 3D graphics and using an old compaq v55 monitor. After installation, Java Desktop does not come up and it stays in init 3.What is the likely problem and remedy? This is really frustrating it seems Solaris always have these ...

Solaris 10 on Toshiba P15 S420 laptop

661 byte By karthik_kha at 2007-11-27 7:29:46
Hi all,Here is my problem...1) Installed Solaris 10 on my laptop as the only OS, worked fine.. 2) Created two partitions on my HDD - 30 GB and 50 GBa) Installed WINXP on the first ( 30 GB ) partitionb) Installed Solaris 10 on Second Partition ( 50 GB )Now when I reboot after installation and ...

Need help in installing solaris 10.

428 byte By Santosh_Gadagojua at 2007-11-27 7:29:54
I have 4 cd set of solaris 10. I have an 80 GB hard disk with four partitions(NTFS). My current o/s is xp. Do i need to do any partitions in my hard disk before starting the installation? (I mean deleting any logical drive).Previously i tried installing by removing the logical drive for a ...

HAStorage or HAStoragePlus not needed with SC3.1, naking NFS HA?

1197 byte By hontoya at 2007-11-27 7:30:07
Greetings experts,some time ago I participated in a SC3.0 (yes, that's quite some time ago) training. Besides other, we learnt how to make NFS HA. In brief we constructed a triple ("a resource group) consisting of 3 resources: the logical host, the NFS application and the HAStorage ...

HAStoragePlus resource

184 byte By yacovbma at 2007-11-27 7:30:28
How to add An HAStoragePlus resource to a resource group with 2 Virtual Nodes. (zones)Do I need to define the zones with this storage lofs or any other type?Thanks

Top utility installation in Solaris 10

568 byte By bravobrittoa at 2007-11-27 7:30:35
Hello I've a SB 150 with Solaris 10 loaded. I tried to install top utility using pkgadd command and it showed that the package was added successfully. Following is the package name that I installed:top-3.5.1-sol25-sparc-localAfter this I have rebooted the server also. But when I type top in ...