Hi, Can anyone tell me how to add -t and -m60 option to syslogd on solaris 10. Thanks,Boon

Hi - I have some machines that are difficult to schedule downtime on, and am wondering if I can manually stop/start processes that are affected by 113225-08 and 112874-33 patches so that I could apply them without rebooting.Is this possible?Thanks very much for the ...

Hello,is it possible for sar to record disk data for one month and then create a file of the results?how is this done? what is the command?thank you for any help ;)

Hi all,I currently using solaris 10 x86. I installed audio driver oss. when i give osstest I am getting following error*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***/dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): Intel HD Audio play-front output- Device busy (opened by PID 0/VMIX)*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ...

Dear All,I have find out some network failure and errors in the massage files.error in message files:Mar 7 05:59:15 QZMain in.mpathd[44]: [ID 594170 daemon.error] NIC failure detected on ce2 of group OAM_NEMar 7 05:59:15 QZMain in.mpathd[44]: [ID 832587 daemon.error] Successfully failed over ...

Hi All,I tried to setup a Sun Cluster 3.2 (2x T2000) with an EMC AX 150 Storage. the device paths are highly instable and breaking down time and again. Tried to install Powerpath software of EMC but this time the did-devices are not recognized by Sun Cluster.Any help will be appriciated.P.S: ...

Hi Guys,I was wondering if there are more people like me on this forum who would like to see a webhosting control panel for Solaris.I created a poll on the directadmin forum to try and get them to support solaris but not enough people have voted. Perhaps some people on this forum share the same ...

I am new to solaris , so have faced some problem while installing. while Xstart the Xserver it fails... it gives the following error :Error loading module for /dev/fb...what should be done regarding this? please suggest and please help me.

HiWe are using Solaris 2.9I am getting following error message when attmepting to do a 64bit make of one of our components. ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_H44: file lib/chmod.o: symbol errno: relocations based on the ABS44 coding model can not be used in building a shared objectThe final ...

Is there a way to test the DST patches I just applied?

Hi,I have applied the DST patch 113225-08, however, after the reboot normal users cannot login.Only the root user can login.Has anyone seen this problem or advise on how to find out where the problem is?I tried to backout 113225-08 but get the error:# patchrm 113225-08Checking installed ...

Hi -When I use memcmp() function in Solaris 10 i386, it does not seem to work. When I convert the arguments to strings and then use strcmp, they seem to work fine. Is there something I am missing. The same code with memcmp etc works fine on Solaris 10 SPARC machines.Your help and pointers will ...

Hi,If this is not the right place, Please direct me to the right one. I wish to know the hard disk magic number whether I'm getting 0xDABE or not. Could you specify the location where these details can be found bcoz I'm new to the Solaris environment. Suppose if I'm getting the disk magic ...

This isn't worth my time, seriously."The most advanced operating system on the planet" can't even install on a machine that's had almost every other popular x86 Operating System installed/running on it (Linux, Windows 2k/XP, FreeBSD). I cannot remember the last time that I felt like I've ...

I am working with an application which, in some circumstances, unfortunately creates a very large number of threads (on the order of 1000s), which wait across a large number of pthread conditions (on the order of 100s). As these circumstances are transient, the system eventually ends up with a ...

I have a customer who is telling me that he needs mirroring functionality in a patch cluster dated 11DEC2006 and 01SEP2006. I can find reference to patches on either of these dates. Is there a list of patch clusters by date? If not, does anyone know of patch clusters with those ...

Does any know if there are API's available at the driver level for AES encryption/decryption? I found a reference to the cryptographic framework on one of the forums but no reference to DDI interfaces. I am looking to use these under Solaris 10 on x86 and sparc.

I am writing an application in C on a SUN T1 machine running Solaris 10. I compiled my application using cc in Sun Studio 11.In my code I allocate a large array on the heap. I then initialize every element in this array. When the array contains up to about 2 million elements, the performance is ...

I磛e come accross some problem here which I cant solve, so I hope I磎 right here and someone can help.- OS is Solaris 9 which runs on a Sunfire Server.- This machine is used as Proxy, Firewall and VPN Gateway.One one Interface it has a fixed IP as Internet connection, this comes from a bigger ...

Looks like I need to run a fsck on var to solve this? What is the easiest way to go about this. Booting to single user mode mounts this file system. I don't think I have enough space to move /var data somewhere else temporily.

I am trying to map a network connection that can be seen with netstat -a to a process, but lsof and rpcinfo don't show any matches. snoop shows plenty of nfs traffic taking place to the port. Automounter is running so perhaps it is making things difficult. Any suggestions?<host># uname ...

Hi,I developed this recipe for earlier releases of Solaris 10, which worked ok: http://slashdot.org/~toby/journal/135285With 11/06, however, I see only the X11 grey desktop, not the desktop login.Any clues?

Just received my Solaris 10 DVD package in the mail;during the boot process to go into the installation process, it hangs no matter what you select in GRUBthis is the screen (when selecting to boot 'Solaris') in which it hangs...- --SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-33 32-bitCopyright ...

I am very new to Solaris .Downloaded x86 Solaris 10 software to install on my machine of intel processor .My Questions are:we havent understand what x86 is ? can we install the software succesfully with network configuration on my machine intel pentium 4.Is this Solaris 10 supports to configure ...

Guys,I have a freshly installed Sun box with Solaris 10 installed on it. I think Samba is meant to be installed with Solaris but I can't find it. So I was hoping to download and install then configure Samba myself from sunfreeware etc. If anyone can give me some help i'd be very grateful. ...

Greetings,Recently after a crahs inetd is refusing to run, I issue a:svcadm enable inetdAnd then svcs -a | grep inetAnd it says offline.I looked in /var/svc/log/network-inetd:default.logAnd the last lines are[Mar today time Disabled]That磗 it, no more information.Any ideas how can I fix this? ...

I'm running Express version of Solaris on X86 machine. Yesterday the trash icon disappeared. Today I put it back in the panel but it still won't throw out the trash. What is the path to the trash folder?80 gigs filled up in only 3 days !Dan

Hi,Anyone tried to run NX Server on Solaris? I get the error down below:NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1424NX> 285 Enabling check on switch commandNX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config filesNX> 285 Setting the preferred NX optionsNX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.1.1 on port: ...

i want to make a user that has rights to login command and has a right to use the command 'find / -name .....and following options' this is the steps i did to assign a user the logins command 1. added the entry in the /etc/security/prof_attr filethe entry is as follows AGscript:::can perform ...

Hi, I just to searched on the Internet but I couldn't find a complete answer for this. Could someone compare the following backup methods?- dd- cpio- tar- ufsdump- ufsdump on a fssnapS.

i started exe file but after 47% program writes "Cannot allocate enough memory. The program has been closed without installing." What have i do?

Hello, i have a trouble whit these servicesvc:/network/physical:defaultI don磘 know what kind of Network card i have on a SunBlade150>#touch /etc/hostname.hme0#touch /etc/hostname.eri0When i have restarted the service svcadm -v restart network/physical:defaultThe service went to maintenance.I ...

How to get-out svc:/network/physical:default from MaintenanceHello, i have a trouble whit these servicesvc:/network/physical:defaultI don磘 know what kind of Network card i have on a SunBlade150>#touch /etc/hostname.hme0#touch /etc/hostname.eri0When i have restarted the service svcadm -v ...

Hello I'm new to Solaris.I tried to add the DST patches to my testing machine but I got the message that one or more packages are missing. I read the log file of one of the patches and I added the SUNWcar.xSUNWmdbSUNWmdbxSUNWcpr.mI did init 6, and since then my machine is in a continuous loop ...

on a sun fire 240 with 4 drivers (68 GB) running solaris 9. i am able to create slices (using format cmd) of 50/40/.. sizes. After i run newfs ( create file system) and mount, the effective space after mounting is only 30 GB ( from df -k command).please let me know if we have any restrictions? ...

Well I finally got Solaris 10 installed after doing a little looking and finding out that my graphics card was unsupported, but the onboard card was :)I installed it, booted up, started using it - and the power went out.Now the system is trashed, and cannot be booted.Will the next version of ...

Hi All,This is my first post here. I am preparing to install Solaris 10 on a new system I have just built. Over the past few years I have gone completely away from Microsoft products toward Linux, running servers built around Fedora Core 3-5 and Mandriva 2006 OSs.I seems to be the only one here ...

hi, (i post this problem under maildrop maillist too) im tried to install maildrop undeo solaris 10, but i receive the following error (first i run ./configure): # make install Making install in numlib Making install in liblock Making install in unicode Making install in rfc822 make install-am ...

Hi,Recently I have purchased a new PC with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and Intel 965SS motherboard and a SATA DriveI am unable to install Solaris 10 on this machine.I tried both Solaris 10 32 bit and 64 bit.When I tried to install Solaris 10 32 bit on the VmWare software, it almost completes the ...

After installaing the latest recommended patch cluster (10_x86_Recommended for Solaris 10), pdf files which could be viewed using xpdf before applying the patch, are now screwed up. it seems the fonts are broken in some way. anybondy an idea what went wrong.Regards

Does anyone know the ramifications of using MD devices vice DID devices for clustering. I am doing an assessment on some systems that are using md devices for the disks instead of DID devices. I have never seen this before. Thanks.

Hi,I have a headless V20z running S10, and an interesting serial port issue -- one which I'm sure is trivial to solve yet the correct keystrokes have eluded me.The basic problem is that two getty's are running on one port. That is, connecting a serial cable to the COM-A interface elicits the ...

First off, I apologize for posting in the Solaris 9 forum, but there is no forum for 8.Now to my problem.I am trying to apply the patch for daylight saving time to my Solaris 8 system (I know, I'm cutting things a little close but....)Anyway, I'm not having any (good) luck.My problems are ...

I've tried the "Solaris 10 OS, AMD x64 Platform - Solaris Enterprise System Virtual Machine for VMware (Solaris 10 11/06) 3.0". I've d/l the virtual appliance for vmware one can find from there : http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp#vmwareI encountered 2 problems ...

I want to partition my hard drive to have Windows SP Media Center version 2005 with update rollup 2, Ubuntu latest version and Solaris 10! However I am having trouble getting either ubuntu or solaris 10 to be in either boot menu? How do I enable this?

I have 1 global zone and 11 normal zones.I have my root and swap mirrored using svm and I have a zfs mirrored on another partition....Looks like this....c1d0s0 / -> c2d0s0 / (25GB SVM Mirror)c1d0s1 swap -> c2d0s1 swap (2GB SVM Mirror)c1d0s4 zones -> c2d0s4 zones (245GB ZFS Mirror)I ...

I have an Ultra 10 and can't load Solaris 10 because of an error that the machine won't support the operating system. So I tried to reload Solaris 8 after a format and receive an ata_timeout c0 d0 error and I don't know how to get around this to load the software. Any ideas anyone?

Try to compile perl module for cache/mmap, can't find mmap() function installed. Please help how to install mmap() or which patch do I need it. thanks.

Hello,We have several zones installed in /export/zones. /export/zones is using ZFS as its file system.We would like to make backups (preferrably to tape), but get the following messages when we try:tcas:root> ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /export/zones/idmtest DUMP: `/export/zones/idmtest' is ...

Does anyone know anything about running AFS with Sun Cluster? My plan to is to use an external shared disk array, then use ZFS on it. The AFS server would run inside a Solaris Container stored on the array. When one server fails, the other would pick up, boot the crashed container, and restart ...