Hi! I installed Solaris 10 (entire distribution) and realized that my gcc compiler can't compile even a very simple application.#include<stdio.h>int main(){printf("abc");return 0;}This is output from terminal screen:# gcc test.cppUndefinedfirst referenced symbolin ...

when i start the computer it will say Starting desktop login on display :0. . .Wait for the desktop login display.and nothing will happenwhy might this be happening?

Is there a reason why there is no man page for the Bash shell (SUNWbash) ? I find this annoying. I couldn't find any package associated on the GA release.Yep, I know I can get my own packages, but if Sun include the Bash on the GA release, why not a man page to supplement !

Can someone tell me if Solstice Backup (EBS) 7.2 is compatible with Solaris 10?

I found a five-dollar 10/100Mb PCI card for my Linux server, but I can't find anything comparable for my Solaris workstation. I did find some Ultra 2 workstations for $85 - I wonder if their NICs would install in my Ultra 5.

hello, i have installed the solaris 10, and i want to know if the filesystem is the "New" ZFS.. the /etc/vfstab file is "ufs"... but, in solaris marketing, i see always: "The solaris 10 filesystem is ZFS". So... I have saw the word "logging" when i boot my desktop, and journaling is one of the ...

HI:I磎 installing Solaris 10 x86 onto Dell PowerEdge 2850 but when Solaris try to find the hard Disk it show a messages no hard disk found. It Server have a Raid Controller and have tree disk they are configure as Raid 5.thanks for your help.

Hi, I want to do a ufsdump over rsh/ssh between 2 servers running Solaris 10. Here is the command I launch : localServer:# rsh rmtServer "ufsdump 0f - /var" > /backups/rmtServerWhen I execute this command on the command line, everything is working very well. But, when I launch the same ...

Hi I am very new to Solaris and had not even seen what a UNIX screen looks before. The sys admin person left so it is all upto me to take care of the systems. That is a good thing, I'll learn, but I need some help. I have a brand new Sun V880 box sitting in the box. I have to install Solaris ...

Looking for a cheap box to run Solaris 10 for web serving and development.I want something affordable, but expanable. Was think of refurb, like stuff from Xerxes ( http://www.xcc.com). Any recommendations on a good starter box?

I am exploring the option of replacing all of my older sparc workstations with Solaris 10 x86. We are currently in the testing and learning phase.So far I think it is pretty cool.My problem for the moment is that I have engineers who compile and run code on our existing Sparc server. Since I am ...

Hi, I think my problem is a quite simple one, but I can't manage to resolve DNS on my Solaris 10 x86. I'm using a 56k dialup modem with ppp. I can connect to my provider, but I can't access any website with mozilla, for example. I tried adding "nameserver (DNS IP)" to /etc/resolv.conf (As I ...

From: Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier@Sun.COM>To: solarisx86@yahoogroups.comNewsgroups: comp.unix.solarisSubject: Community-created OpenSolaris minimal "reference distro" -- is it possible?On Fri, 6 May 2005 carl.trusiak@robustaos.com wrote:>> > So when it comes to things like ...

Having edited /etc/inet.conf or /etc/services to diable port/services in solaris 8/9 I have been slightly bewildered by the change in solaris 10 as having edited /etc/inetd.conf & /etc/services when rebooted Solaris complains informing me that various services (ones that I have hashed ...

to start out I am new to solaris 10; have limited experience with 6&7. I know how to set up these things on those systems but how to you do this on 10.I realize that solaris 10 comes with these features built in but how do you turn these features on and which .conf files do you edit. I was ...

I have set up a user to be restricted. I set the users passwd directory to be /usr/lib/rsh. Every thing seems to be working fine except now I can preform an sftp from a client workstation to the restricted area.(it drops the connection)Setup is Solaris 10 3/05, I'm using the openssh that comes ...

I installed Solaris 10 on my Ultra5 workstation as a standalone system. Now I want to attach it to a LAN, but (notsurprisingly) ifconfig -a shows no interfaces (only the loopback). The transceiver is working (I tested it with watch-net). What do I need to do from the root prompt to create the ...

Iam trying to configure samba so that I can send printing to windows 2000. pls provide me the configuration steps. I have installed solaris 10 with CD. Is samba for solaris 10 has changed as I am unablr to locate the usr\local folder.. this local folderis present in solrais 9 and solaris 8. ...

Hi guys,I'm currently new to solaris. I have installed solaris 10 to a virtual machine in my windows. How do I start CDE?Thanks.

Hi,I've got the following problem while installing Solaris 10 on a SUN Ultra 450 Enterprise:When I try to select the harddisk that I want to install Solaris to the installation program gives me the following error: "This disk (c0t0d0) cannot be used to install Solaris software.This disk drive ...

Dear Solaris experts,I would like to do the following setups:1.Boot form CD-ROM 2.Select CD-ROM as boot device for secondary boot ( boot.bin )3.Load kernel from CD-ROM4.And mount root file system from nfs!I can抰 use PXE, but I have the driver for NIC and can make modification in it.Thank you ...

I am not having local dir under /usr . can any one plz tell me the reason. I am trying to configure samba as given by some one in this forum.i have shared /export/home/share and made the changes inside smb.conf. My ? is in the workgroup do i need to write my pc netbios name. do i need to give ...

hello, The sendmail in Solaris 10 is linked with libsasl, but when i run the command: sendmail -d0.1 -bv root, i can't see the SASL support... the output is:- Compiled with: DNSMAP LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NDBM NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB ...

Say I have a nice little 2gb system running whatever apps it's running and sized with whatever swap it is sized for... Along comes this Java app that can consume say 500mb of virtual. Presumably I'd need to adjust my swap size (or would I?) and presumably I'd monitor vmstat (or the like) to ...

Hi -We have coded software to run on the following environment (rough):Solaris 9 / Sun Fire / Oracle 9Recently a script filled up /tmp and I discovered that some programs are not working correctly, for example the log of one of our programs shows that it finishes successfully but the created ...

well I have installed version 10 on my unix box and It has apache2 on it however I was told that it was already installed and that all I had to do was configure the httpd filewell unfortunately the install did not create the httpd.conf file or the *.pid file and the ./configure command does not ...

I am trying to connect to three different machines and export my display back to my desktop machine. I would normally use X11 forwarding over ssh to accomplish this, but unfortunately the machines I am connecting to are not admin'd by me and do not have ssh installed.I am confused because I ...

Hi !!Excuse me for the tiny english,isn't my native languaje, I'm spanish ;-)I'm trying to install Solaris 10 OS in my Netra X1. This machine doesn't have CD/DVD-ROM device, so I'm trying to install over the network. Also I have a Ultra10 working (with Solaris 10 too), which that's ready ...

Hello all.. i have three broken packages in my solaris 10 3/05 CD's. SUNWxwxft ( essencial to JDS...) disk 2 SUNWsom (staroffice) disk 3 SUNWsogm (staroffice gnome integration) disk 3 Now i know why my JDS is not working... Somebody can send me that packages? email: gnome@via-rs.com.br Thanks ...

Hi all,I磎 new with solaris - oh, I磎 using Sol 10 x86 - and have several Prolems. After successfully mount my DVD (磃rom wich I have installed the system) I try to install a package (In my special case SUNWsprot and SUNWarc). And there my problems starts ... I cant find any package like this on ...

Can it be done ?I would like to create a NFS server in a none root zone, but it seems as the NFS server parts are not supported in a sub zone.Any comments ?/Flemming

When I try and use smc to download and install new patches I just get errors. Has anyone be able to get this to work? If so what patch set and build are you on.

I have tried to use LVM to configure the c1t2d0s0 and c1t3d0s0 but fail.Below are the commands I used:#metadb -f -a -c 4 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7#metadb -a -c 4 /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s7#metainit -f d10 1 1 c1t2d0s0#metainit -f d20 1 1 c1t3d0s0#metainit d0 -m d10(modify the /etc/vfstab file to /dev/md/dsk/d0 ...

Hello,in both XFree86 and in Xorg X11 implementations, the driver for Nvidia cards include support for display rotation which is quite nice feature having display which support it. I like it in linux and also would like to give it a try in Solaris10/amd64 which I'm tryint to use as a developer ...

Hi, everyone.Just installed the system and got stuck with the simple thing. I have cd drive as secondary slave (in my linux it is /dev/hdd), and now cannot find the proper device for it to mount in solaris. I'm assuming that it is /dev/dsk/c1d1s0, but mount tells me that there's no such ...

Can I work with Solaris10 and Win2000 on the same disk? I have difficulties.

Hello,I've installed Solaris10 on amd64 box and now I would like to use some specific linux binary on solaris. I've found this Janus FAQ:21.Q:How much does Janus cost?A:Janus will be part of the Solaris 10 release and will be included in the Solaris license price. but unfortunately I'm not ...

thanks for ur help but my questions is that i dont have local inside usr and in all the websites the configuration as. how can i proceed as my smb.conf file is present in sfw. these steps i found out for solaris 8 what changes i need to work for solaris 10Locate the smb.conf File. It will be in ...

I think my machine will only cope with 32 bit mode. Solaris 10 seems to have a capability to run in 32 bit or 64 bit mode, but how do I install at 32 bit?Anyone know?

Hi,I am a newbie on Solaris.I've got a SUN Enterprise 450 (UtlraSparc 400Mhz), originally, it is installed Solaris 7 and work fine.Plan to upgrade to Solaris 10. Downloaded all the stuffs. I put the disc into the CDROM and type "boot cdrom". There was error stating that "Fatal SCSI error at ...

Network boot of Ultra 10 test machine from JS environment on a RedHat FC3 box all works perfectly with a Solaris 9 (0404) kernel and network boot directory structure.When attempting jumpstart with a Solaris 10 FCS kernel and jumpstart environment, afterboot net:dhcp - installI see usual boot ...

Hello I have a x86 Solaris 10 installation... and the swap entries in my vfstab are:/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 --swap-no-swap-/tmptmpfs-yes-So, it sounds to me that solaris is mounting a 600M area (my swap space in slice 1), in my /tmp directory... So, i think that the SO is sharing 600M to swap and /tmp! ...

I am trying to certify our product on Solaris 10. We have previously supported Solaris 8 and 9. The product installer consists of three CD's. Our user's copy a setup.sh script to a local directory and run the script. The script prompts for each CD in the order required. The installer fails at ...

Hi,Wanted to report this to Solaris Engineers.1. Change directory to /var/ld2. Now change directory to directory name 32.3. You can keep repeated step 2 again and again and again ... for a long time.Not sure why this is setup this way. But thought it was intersting that it was configured this ...

Hi, I bought this Quad Ethernet card today:X1034A 501-5406 Quad FastEthernet PCI (QFE/P)And I plugged it into my UltraSaprc 10.When I do an "ifconfi -a" it only shows me 2 interfaces- The default "HME0" interface- The loopback interfaceWhat do I need to do to see and configure the other ...

Hi, I have a converter to use a normal keyboard & mouse with my ultrasparc...but I dont know how to do a STOP-A sequence ...because a normal keyboard dont have a STOP key...How do I need to do this?Thanks,

Hey,Solaris 10 is supposed to be able to run Linux apps natively, right? If I wanted to run, for example, Americas Army (Linux) on Solaris 10, would this work?I have a Geforce 5700 / Viewsonic A70F+, so would I need some kind of "enhanced" drive to run games properly?I plan on switching to ...

I installed solaris 10..when I logged in as root I choosed Java desktop as my desktop...but it seems that it cant load the java desktop...at installation, I choosed default installation.Can anyone help me?

HI All,I have a 4-in-1 bge card and only use instance 0. At the momnet, I have just plumbed instance 1 and thus I am using bge0 and bge1. It says it is up and when I query it, I get a response from the same box to say it is up but I can't ping it, even from boxes on teh same IP subnet.As well, ...

Hi all,I'm trying to set up a disk mirror between the 2 18G disks in my Netra T1 200. Any idea how to do this?I have a decent understanding of Solaris, but I've never had the hardware to do this with before, is there a good starting point for this?