I hope this is a good spot to get the word out to someone who can make a difference.I'll just say it. Solaris (x86 and Sparc) needs a reliable and powerful X-based FTP program. Something like gFTP. I realize there are pre-compiled versions of these types of programs at Blastwave, but it's a ...

Hi there,I have a few questions about ZFS. Hope some people here knows the answers:1.When will this ZFS feature be included in a coming beta release? Which release will it be?2. Will there be a seperate sys admin guide for ZFS or just a chapter added to the current guide on docs.sun.com?Thanks. ...

Okay,I've installed Solaris 10 B72 (11/04) on both and ultra 10 and and ultra 5 and ended up with the same issue. When vold is running, the machines both eject cds as soon as they are read (put cd in . watch lights for a couple seconds, machine ejects cd) including the cds used to install the ...

Hi, i have a ultra 5; i replaced one of the seagate barracuda hdd of 9.1 GB with a WD 80GB ... So, now i have 2 hdds: 1 x barracuda 9.1GB and 1 x wd 80GB ... on the same ide cable (Cable Select) while on the secondary ide i have the cdrom - master ... Then, i successfuly installed solaris 10 ...

admintool is not installed on my solaris 10 PC.I loaded the 3 cd's for solaris 10 x.86 on my Pc and got it all up and running ,,,,but admintool is not installed. I cant use it from the command line or the gui.How do I get, then install admintool?

At the part where I'm offered a chance to create Solaris partitions, the fdisk scren claims there is a "rounding error" of -172367mb. Which is basically the total amount of space used by the other partitions on my drive. I have 30gb of unallocated space available.What causes this, and how do I ...

I just got Solaris 10 loaded but I am unable to create a new user account. Where is this done? How do I add a printer? Where do I see the USB thumb drive listed?Thanks

I notice in build 69 and build 72 that there is two packages for iSCSI:SUNWiscsir and SUNWiscsiu.The only think is that there is nothing in the packages.Does someone knows if iSCSI will be release with Solaris 10?

people,how do i activate CDE?i've installed disk 1-4 except for the 5th CD.which is about languages i think. can i stillactivate CDE and how?thanks!

I am using a site.xml file to enable/disable services during a Jumpstart configuration. This works great.However, I can't yet figure out how to configure the various properties of those services, such as enabling TCP Wrappers for a service. I can set the properties of a service and verify that ...

Hi,I'm hacing problems with the Solaris shipped BIND 9 in Solaris 10 b72.I've enabled it using the following command:svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/server:bind9Everything starts ok and DNS works but after I reboot the service is in a "disabled" state again.Is this due to some ...

I just installed b72, created my local non-privileged account and tried to log in remotely over ssh...lo and behold sshd is not running, nor is it on the box! The ssh binary is present, but no sshd. I did a 'developer support' install. Did I goof something somewhere or is it just an oversight ...

I created an OPML file of major Solaris discussion groupsthat provide RSS feeds. (An OPML file is a standard fileformat for sharing lists of RSS feeds such as BLOGs. Moreon this later.) It can be downloaded here: http://www.speakeasy.org/~boutilier/import.xmlThis is part of my attempt to start ...

I've installed a new Solaris 10 as the development platform. And I added the some packages from www.sunfreeware.com.Then, I found user could not use the 'su' command.Here is the dmesg.Dec 23 17:14:57 host su: [ID 401707 auth.error] open_module: /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 failed: ...

Hi,I'm finding OS-handles for disk-devices as c#tWWNd#s#. (inside /dev/rdsk)Earlier I have found these always to be c#t#d#s# where # is always integer.why is this so ? I could not find any documentation. Can the # for "c" and "d" fields can also be strings rather than integers. ?Pls let me ...

I tried to run Oracle 9i (9.2.0.1) on Solaris 10.When I execute the 'dbca' command, it throws the following error message.ld.so.1: /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/sparc/native_threads/jre: fatal: relocation error: file /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/../lib/sparc/native_threads/libawt.so: symbol ...

I saw in Sun's details of new features for Solaris 10 that there is now an encrypted file system support. I can't find any information about it or how it works. Has anyone seen this feature or details on it?thanksJames

I downloaded the Solaris images and tried to burn them to CD's using Blindwrite on Windows XP.First of all, the built-in image verification utility of Blindwrite, could not detect the filesystem in the ISO image "sol-10-b72-x86-v1.iso".Since Blindwrite suggested that any writing mode will be ...

Hitrying to install s10 on a Sony jumps directly into debugger.Same CD set, on a DellPower Edge 1850 the install process hangs on: "Configuring devices"Any idea?Regards

Ok I can't get live upgrade to work ERROR: Unable to upgrade boot environment <s72>.INFORMATION: Boot environment <s72> has one or more non-global zonesinstalled. This version of Live Upgrade cannot upgrade a boot environmentthat has any non-global zones installed.So all I want to ...

I set up IP Filter with Solaris 10 b72 sparc, using ipf.conf andipnat.conf. NAT is working, after I remembered to enableIP forwarding. Filtering doesn't work. `ipfstat' shows no matchesand no logging. Here's my ipf.conf:pass in on hme0 allpass out on hme0 allblock in log quick on hme0 proto ...

I installed Solaris 10 beta 72 on a Sun Ultra 60 and have had a strange occurance. I had to give the machine a new IP address so I went through ifconfig, using the following commands:# ifconfig hme0 down# ifconfig hme0 unplumb# ifconfig hme0 192.168.10.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast ...

I'm noticing that some X applications are not running under JDS in the latest build (72) of Solaris 10. Examples, I get an error at startup that xscreensaver cannot be found and I cannot change the screen resolution from the GUI menu. Also, there is no predefined launcher for Mozilla. I had to ...

Hi,$ uname -aSunOS kite 5.10 s10_72 i86pc i386 i86pcI installed Solaris 10 on an spare Dell box recently. I'm not well versed in Solaris and I wanted a little more exposure to it. Over the past couple of days I've managed to shut down just about every service I don't use/need, but I'm left ...

I just installed Solaris 10 x86 and a newbie to this OS.My computer is connected to a DSL router via an ethernet card. How do I make Mozilla to know this?

Planning to upgrade to Solaris 10 soon.. already tried the SPARC flavour of Solaris 10 0 which includes JDS -- but is it also bundled/included with the X86 (32-bit) flavour?

I have several scripts that put status messages to the console on bootup. Now with Greenline it all goes to /var/svc/log/.... which doesn't do me much good.How can I get output to the console on bootup back? Note: boot -m verbose doesn't do it.

when i run flar create -n sol10 /sol10.flarIt is failing and I am getting the following:Full FlashChecking integrity...Integrity OK.Running precreation scripts...Precreation scripts done.Determining the size of the archive...cpio: "var/tmp/orbit-root/linc-2b2-0-41d34cd48945" ?cpio: ...

i just installed a solaris10 non-networked because there was no network connection when i installed it. but recently, we were able to connect it to a network which required me to enable dhcp which i did with a sys-unconfig command. the problem is, the hostname i have for this machine is ...

Hi everyone,On Solaris 10 programming man pages I see the"restrict" word used quite often. What is its meaning ?It wasn't there in previous releases. Is it documented anywhere ?Excerpt from select(3c) man page:int select(int nfds, fd_set *restrict readfds, fd_set *res-trict writefds, fd_set ...

Hello.I have a Beta release of Solaris 10 installed on a dual boot machine. When the final release of 10 comes out, how do I upgrade the Beta to full release ?RegardsStephen Gray

I've read about SUN's support for AMD's 64 bit technology and the recently release commercial Server Platforms. Does anyone know IF SUN's Solaris 10 release is available in 64bit aware flavor for Intels' EM64T XEON processors?I also read the Solaris 10 Specs on SUN's site ...

Hello,I read about this Kernel-Module wich will arrive this Summer, which will allow it to execute Linux-Binaries on Solaris 10. Is there another possibility at the moment to run Linux Software (Binaries!)?Thx

Hi,I am attempting to install Solaris 10 build 72 onto a Western Digital 120GB SATA drive (WD1200JD) connected to an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo which uses the Silicon Image SiI3112A SATA controller.I have done the following:1. updated the mobo BIOS to the latest version available (1013)2. ...

Hi all,today I acquired a sun ultra 60 workstation and I wanted to install solaris 10 on it.For some reason the installation stops and says there is no disk found. There certainly is a disk in the system and OpenBSD has installed correctly this afternoon.What am I missing? ...

Hi all,I have solaris 10 installed on my ultra 60 but when I play music or enable sounds in gnome all sounds are coming from the internal speaker, not from the speakers I connected. How can I enable the 'good' speakers instead of the hardware speakers?

I want to resize root volume of my systemi am able to do extending /var from veritas but it is not possible for /root file systemit saying use vxresize -f commandbut i could not find that command on veritas 3.5RegardsSalman

Hi all. I tried to install Solaris 10 , but it always fails.After I selected "Solaris Interactive", it displayed "Use is subjects to license term", then the system reboot. Whatever I choose which option, it still leads to reboot.My computer:CPU: P4Motherboard: asus P4P800 SEVideo Card: Geforce ...

I've loaded Solaris 10 x86. Works fine except for wheel mouse. I've hunted for an xconfig file to hopefully fix the issue but can't find it. Anyone have any advise on how to fix this? Thanks in advanceken

The man page for logins(1m) reads:-aAdd two password expiration fields to the display. Thefields show how many days a password can remain unusedbefore it automatically becomes inactive, and the datethat the password expires.It should read:-aAdd two login expiration fields to the display. ...

Hi,I am running Solaris10 (11/04) on x86.Because it's running nice I would like to give some of my friends access to it.But there is one problem, I've got a traffic limit with my ISP and if I get over the limit I have to pay additional for the next beginning GBs.I am afraid some of my friends ...

Hi,Any idea on when the next build beyond 72 will be available ?Thanks.

Since solaris is open-source now, I can't find rpm & gcc here.Where is it?

I get this on our brand-spanking-new Sunfire.How come?Please also reply by e-mail, as I don't monitor this forum.Uwe ZimmermannGambit Communications, Inc.uwe@gambitcomm.comsunfire[30] BRANCH_6_00% uname -aSunOS sunfire 5.10 s10_72 i86pc i386 i86pcsunfire[31] BRANCH_6_00% ...

Has anyone been able to use GDM instead of xlogin on Solaris 10 for Sparc? If so, what did you do?Thank you.

Hi all,When logging into the Java Desktop I get an error "Could not look up Internet address for brallen-hg, this will prevent Gnome from working correctly." Googling finds me several pages that advice me to do exactly what the message says and add your machine name and IP to /etc/hosts. ...

I have just started working on UNIX and from the role i know that i have to go the extreme level.Can you tell me some books which starts from basics of architecture and goes to the top level.

Dear AllI tried to follow the instruction in this link: http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/v/2.html I created all these partitions as mentioned in the link above by using partition commander 9Fist stage:I installed XP in first partition (hda1)....success.Second stage:Install Mandrake 10.1I made ...

I'm a php developer and has only worked in a few projects with java. I managed to get a copy of solaris cds and installed them. I have a desire to learn soalris to use it to develop java applications. My area of interest is J2EE. Now I have a problem with mounting ntfs and fat32 partitions . ...

Ok, new install of 10 on Ultra 5. No mozilla, atleast from a java desktop standpoint, and I installed it from sun, thinking it was not there, and it wont run.. it shows up on a ps -ef, but no windows on my display?!!What am I missing, isn't this new os have a web browser? When I try to go to ...