sendmail wizard password and debug command

184 byte By grkrajesha at 2007-11-27 7:30:40
Hi All ,I want to know what is "wizard" password and "dubug" command in sendmail.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

readdir function sort behaviour changed in between Solaris 10 u2 and u3?

299 byte By s.urbata at 2007-11-27 7:31:21
We rely on the usual sort order, observed generally on Unix and up to 6/06 in Solaris 10 too, but since we installed 11/06 on one SPARC system, the (default) sort order of directory entries returned by readdir seems to have changed. Is anything known about this? Does anybody need an

Line length limit

677 byte By DavidSchulza at 2007-11-27 7:33:03
Hi,I'm having a problem with a large group (about 2500 members). I first thougt this is a Directory Server Problem, but the Server Log is identical for small and large groups and does not show any problems. Additionally even if i put the group (with all members) into /etc/group, I still cant ...

How to make a bootable backup of the operating system

286 byte By Cinderella99a at 2007-11-27 7:35:29
Hi,I am given the task to make a bootable backup of the OS (Solaris 9). I know I can use ufsdump to backup the system in single user mode. However, to make a backup bootable, shall I backup the file system to a DVD? Any advice will be greatly appreciated!Cinderella

Dell Inspiron + Broadcom 440x Integrated nic + Solaris 10 x86 = no network?

1209 byte By JanineLumCa at 2007-11-27 7:35:34
I'm having problems getting the driver to load for this nic on this laptop. I've tried the various other suggestions found in the forums (boot from cd, sys-unconfig, ifconfig plumb, etc.) but I think my basic problem is that the driver isn't recognized/loaded.prtconf shows that "driver not ...

Solaris 9 Setting New Subnetmask?

381 byte By Tonz66a at 2007-11-27 7:36:32
I have 2 enterprise 250s and 1 Ultra10 all running Solaris 9.Due to recent network changes I have to change the subnet mask on the ethernet interfaces. I change them fine with ifconfig but when the system reboots the subnet mask and broadcast address revert back to what they were before the ...

No login dialog on remote Xserver

3265 byte By ACGa at 2007-11-27 7:39:39
Hi,I have 2 identical x86-64 servers running the same version of Solaris 10 (details below). One arrived about a month before the other, so I set them up separately and, although I kept notes etc and tried to set the second one up the same, it isn't working quite right. The issues I have, ...

Building gcc 4.2 failed

3366 byte By cterbovena at 2007-11-27 7:39:40
Hi there.Building gcc 4.2 on Solaris 10 on x86 failed:=> ./configure --prefix=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/4.2/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 --with-gmp=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/gmp/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 --with-mpfr=/rwthfs/rz/SW/UTIL.common/gcc/mpfr/i86pc-pc-solaris2.10 ...

Help wanted with installing Solaris Express (2/07) on x64

1515 byte By kloebera at 2007-11-27 7:40:03
Folks'es,before I go and drown my desperation in whatever, I give it a last try in this forum. Here is what my troubles are:I have a DELL E521, with AMD X2 5600, 4GB RAM, 500GB Disk, ATI Radeon X1300 Graphiccard with 256 MB.It is currently running Vista Business x64.All is well with this and ...

How can I use syscall() from 32-bit application in 64-bit Solaris (v. 5.8)

206 byte By Dear_Serga at 2007-11-27 7:40:53
Solaris 5.8Sun Blade 150 (64-bit) I have got SYGSYS when call syscall(...) from my 32-bit application.Is it possible to use syscall() in 32-bit applications under 64-bit Solaris?

troubles during solaris10 11/06 first boot

1073 byte By duxaa at 2007-11-27 7:41:51
hello everybodyhardware:motherboard supermicro X7DB8raid areca 1220i had no problems during installation. i use just initialized raid with arcmsr 1.20.00.13 drivers, successfully tested on S10 6/06 release. all partitions are ufs-formattedbut after reboot i suddenly get a pair of errors:Failed ...

flarcreate for disaster recovery

1099 byte By BlackwidowSta at 2007-11-27 7:41:57
I'm trying to put together a BMR solution for two Solaris 9 servers we have, neither has an internal tape drive. I was trying to follow the flash archive/jumpstart documentation but it is not very detailed. I installed a jumpstart/archive server to hold the images of these two servers.On one ...

New Sun FIRE X2100 Black Screen Flashing Cursor

196 byte By infected_rhythmsa at 2007-11-27 7:42:05
I just received a brand new Sun Fire X2100.1- Startup the machine...2- Pick Solaris 10 from GrubGet a black screen with a flashing cursor...Fail safe mode works.

Mount 2 TB USB storage device

918 byte By kluesya at 2007-11-27 7:43:34
I have posted this before.....however no reply or help yet!!please....if anybody has suggestions...I had to resort to FTP files transfer...took 5 days!!Hello all,I have been trying for the past week to mount a 2 TB usb storage device that I built (VENUS box with 4x 500 gb). It shows up when I ...

OCR not recogniced during the installation Sun Cluster, Oracle RAC

906 byte By MArcomla at 2007-11-27 7:43:41
Hi,I have these environment.- 2 nodes V40Z.- Sun cluster 3.1u4 (x86)- Solaris 10 11/06 (x86)- QFS, SLVM/OBAM- Oracle RAC 10g R2I use the shared disk to make a metaset called racset with SLVM using the did's for the data raw devicesroot@orademo1 # metasetMulti-owner Set name = racset, Set ...

Invoking the device driver

797 byte By Kaushikgoa1a at 2007-11-27 7:43:47
HiI have written a non-STREAMS character device driver for Solaris...It passes the 'modload', 'modinfo' and 'modunload' test successfully.....Now, I have the xxopen(), xxclose(), xxattach(), xxdetach() entry points in my driver.. I am also using the ddi_create_minor_node() function in my ...

trap SIGBUS in aiowrite

1388 byte By wangzhonnewa at 2007-11-27 7:44:23
signal: 10 -- SIGBUSstack trace:<StackTrace>##### Object: /usr/lib/sparcv9/libaio.so.1assfail(0x10000,0xffffffff72702000,0x0,0xffffffff77e08000,0x0,0xffffffff7b1e975 9) + 0x258assfail(0x10000,0x0,0x3,0xffffffff77d02650,0x3,0xffffffff7fffd66c) + ...

Backup Solaris OS

203 byte By nankeen80a at 2007-11-27 7:47:37
How do u backup the operating system to 4mm DDS3 tape?...is there a special command to type, or is it just ufsdump?Im using solaris 2.6 platform, and DDS3 drive.Please assist. Thanks a lot.

Recommend a 4 way SATA controller card?

425 byte By Kebabberta at 2007-11-27 7:47:42
I am having huge problems of finding a SATA controller card that:1. Can attach 4 discs2. No raid (i will use ZFS)3. supports NCQ4. supports SATA II (i.e. 3Gbps)If anyone know of a card that works, please post the model here, so I can buy it. Ive looked everywhere, but it seems that the SATA ...

mirroring existing data

309 byte By maniua at 2007-11-27 7:47:45
Hi alli would like to know if could be possible (adding a new disk) to mirror my first disk with existing data ( / and /pippo filesystem ) with Solstice Disk Suite.If i concat my partition ( for example metainit f d1 1 1 c1t0d0s0 ) will I lost existing data?thank ...

Software Question

420 byte By specialadmina at 2007-11-27 7:50:08
I'm new to solaris. I have a few solaris boxes, and need to know all the software packages & version information that is running on each. I've ran pkginfo -l. It gives me a majority of the information that I need. But I know there are other applications running on the system. How can I ...

Unexpected token WARNING message during Solaris 10 install

786 byte By kkhensona at 2007-11-27 7:50:27
Hi I'm having some issues trying to install Solaris 10 on an Ultra 10 workstation.The same cd works fine in an Ultra 450 enterprise server.I get a lot of repeating errors like:Unexpected token ' ' on line 1 of /kernel/drv/rpcib.confI tried doing a 'boot cdrom - text' from the ok prompt, ...

Solaris Refresh Rate

728 byte By gsavagea at 2007-11-27 7:51:24
Hello,I am currently using Solaris 10 x86 edition on a pc that has an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro video card. The problem I am experiencing with the system is that the refresh rate seems to be stuck at 60 hz. I would like to increase the rate to something that is easier on the eyes, around 85 hz (my ...

host routes

386 byte By Mike_Ha at 2007-11-27 7:51:29
Hello,I am trying to figure out how to add a persistent route to the routing table on one of my Solaris servers.On my Windows boxes I can set a persistent route to 10.10.1.25 via 10.10.1.1 by using the following command at the command line:route add 10.10..x. mask 255.255.0.0 10.10.1.1 -pIs ...

PATH or initial install path instance

513 byte By b0nesa at 2007-11-27 7:51:43
Dear Sirs and Madams :-)I've finally gotten a great install of Solaris 10 on an old AMD machine. All is well except for the fact that the Companion CD doesn't install properly. I've added to the PATH variable to access the terminal apps but is there a way to install that the graphical ...

new install

257 byte By sgt_spikea at 2007-11-27 7:55:19
I have a clean HD and want to put Solaris 10 on it. I downloaded and burned the install onto 5 CD-r. When I boot the system, it doesn't boot to the CD rom. I have changed the boot sequence in the bios. What else do I need to do to start the install?

why retry_count property of resource is disable for failover

707 byte By shock_ua at 2007-11-27 7:55:28
SunCluster 3.1I set the property of a resource asstart_timeout--60retry_count--5retry_interval--300the wanted behavior is start the resource and every time waiting for it 60 seconds, if failed retry, the total failover time is 300 secondsbut the current behavior is:retry twice then fail over, ...

Sun Cluster with QFS

172 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 7:56:00
Dear Gurus I want to Install Oracle 10 G with QFS filesystem in first phase , and later i want to install Sun Cluster Is this possible ? Regards

regarding sun studio12

124 byte By kalyan.javaa at 2007-11-27 7:56:30
Am i allowed to install sun studio 12 on windows platformIf so will u please give me instructions to intall it

problem in installation

542 byte By dhineshsundara at 2007-11-27 7:58:38
Dear sir/madam,I downloaded solaris 10 Os from sun website the downloaded data is in zipped mode. I unzipped the data & i burnt in RW-Cd as image as data, Os is not loading from the cd.I done the procedure in diffrent cd & different mode still the same problem.Im already send the same ...

enterprise 450 bios settings

157 byte By buraqa at 2007-11-27 8:01:27
Hi all!I got an enterprise 450 and i want to install OpenSolaris 10. How can i edit its bios settings to boot it from the CD-Rom? Thanks

Solaris 9 Workspace Menu

1182 byte By headachea at 2007-11-27 8:01:48
Hi all,i have an issue with customizing the Workspace menu (i.e. right click on desktop and the resulting menu) on Solaris 9 that i have trawled the web for and come up empty.I have added some applications to the Menu using the Customize Menu Option but when i right click, and select one of ...

no disks found. Solaris 10.

310 byte By Kondziua at 2007-11-27 8:03:51
When i have tried install Solaris 10 on my laptop HP dv 6000 i have received this message "no disks found. chceck to make sure are cabled and powered up." what can i do? Maybe i should mount the disc? But i dont know how, i tried but i had a problem witch this, it is different than mount disk ...

SMC cannot start anymore

46735 byte By Rigolettoa at 2007-11-27 8:07:19
Hello,we have installed 5.10 on a i86pc. After doing updates with the updatemanager smc is not starting anymore. I got an font warning "Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font" and a following java error from this. I get this with both x-interfaces common and java-desktop.I have checked jdk ...

Problem with E521 Ethernet Connection

649 byte By helloglobea at 2007-11-27 8:09:11
Dear Solaris folksI have a Dell Dimension E521 computer and have been trying to connect to the Internet on Solaris but to no avail.The following is what I did:1. Edit the /etc/driver_aliases with bge "pci14e4,170c".2. Run the command modload /kernel/drv/bge3. Run the command ifconfig bge ...

Solaris 10 5/03 Installation on V65

380 byte By eric.a at 2007-11-27 8:09:54
Hi,I tried to install Solaris 10 on an V65, it is my first installation on x86. All other installations I did on sparc servers. OK fixed IP Adress is used, also subnet and defaultrouter is defined. When first CD is done and machine reboots the intel boot agent tries to find a dhcp server. Why? ...

Solaris Express Developer Edition on Acer Aspire 9100

271 byte By rutkowsra at 2007-11-27 8:10:22
I did some research and it appears that the latest edition or Solaris Express will install and work on the Acer Aspire 9100. It is a turion with a nvidia chipset, atheros wireless and an nvidia 6100 graphics chip set. Does anyone have experience with this install.

Create User Id

340 byte By AkivaSmitha at 2007-11-27 8:10:47
Hello All,I just installed Solaris Express, Developer Edition. And the only User Id is root. I am not sure that I want to practice and work in the root id. I am not sure, but to me it seems a bit risky.However, I do not know how to create a new user id and password. Is there an easy way to do ...

Installation failed to start

937 byte By solnixa at 2007-11-27 8:11:32
Hi,Can anyone help me in resolving the below problem?I have downloaded the DVD version of solaris 10 into my windows system, but not sure on how to make the downloaded image as bootable one. I did exeucted the "sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-full" file which I downloaded, it went on and created one more ...

burning downloaded DVD's

191 byte By waltricha at 2007-11-27 8:12:18
I am unable to get the downloaded Solaris 10 DVD's to burn using winISO on Windows XP.This may seem like a silly question, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to do so?

The inode error message trigger the system reboot. Pls help

5951 byte By Boonchua at 2007-11-27 8:12:38
Hi all-I ran into this issue yesterday and the inode could be a trigger to system restart (see below). The challenge is this error message is like a false alert. It should not trigger the system to restart. What would be the fix to prevent the next system crash & reboot?I also attach pca ...

problem regarding solaris develper express edition x86

327 byte By niteshnitua at 2007-11-27 8:14:45
i am able to do the installltion of my own ?by watching the videos of it freom u r web site but at last when the files copying in my sysytem at lastits downlad till 20 % and restart my computer autmaticlly cna any one suggest me the problemor solaris dvd is not copied up to the mark ...

zfs filesystem screwed up?

1081 byte By ephemeraa at 2007-11-27 8:17:05
Hi,I am running S10U3 (all patches applied). Today by mistake I extracted a big (4.5G) tar archive into my home directory (on ZFS) which ran out of space and the tar command terminated with the error "Disk quota exceeded" (it should have been something like "No space left on device" ?)I think ...

Sun Studio 12 in snv_64a?

280 byte By dwsmith@llnl.gova at 2007-11-27 8:21:32
I just installed the new Solaris Express Developer's (snv_64a), or basically I did a live upgrade from snv_55b, and I'm still seeing Sun Studio 11, and not Sun Studio 12. Has anyone seen this? Sun Studio 12 is supposed to be in snv_64a, correct?Thanks,David

Bypassing the solaris-devx console

446 byte By Irvina at 2007-11-27 8:21:48
Hi,Have been running solaris-devx on my laptop for a few weeks,Setup a user in the root... now loging in to the user with JDS.But it takes to long before giving the GUI login, if anyone no's howto bypass the console please let me know...? Q.Do I need to re-install an configure it some where, ...

in.ftpd

132 byte By bbucalona at 2007-11-27 8:22:02
Would anyone know where to find the source code for the Solaris 8 and 10 ftp daemon? I think the file is ftpd.c.Thanks

campus cluster with storage replication

694 byte By suja at 2007-11-27 8:22:56
Hi all..we are planning to implement a campus cluster with storage replication over a distance of 4km using remote mirror feature of sun storagetek 6140. Primary storage ( the one where quorum resides ) and replicated secondary storage will be in separate sites interconnected with dedicated ...

Yet Another CD-ROM problem Sun ultra 10

692 byte By Aijaza at 2007-11-27 8:23:33
Hello There.I just got a Sun ultra 10 and I am trying to install Solaris 10 on it using the original DVD that I got from sun.However when i try running a boot cdrom at the ok prompt I see that it cannot read the label.Im sure it is because it is a DVD and not a CD. Isn't it?Can the sun ultra ...

How to use makefile utility in Solaris

679 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 8:23:35
Hi all,I am new to Solaris platform, but have strong desire to play with Solaris. I have downloaded many utility programs (source code version) for Solaris like LAN-Chat, UNRAR, Screensaver, etcFor example, I downloaded "xscreensaver-5.02.tar.gz" and unzipped to a folder.I referred the ...

Solaris 10 sparc boot dvd

384 byte By schtaffa at 2007-11-27 8:23:48
Hi,i need to make standalone jumpstart bootable solaris 10 sparc dvd but i have some problems with the new installation process. i readed all the scripts in the boot process but i don't now what i need to change and where i need to change it in order to have this customized dvd.I follow the ...