I'm running a solaris file server. I'm booting solaris off of a single disk and then have a RAID5 array across three disks for my data. I removed the disk that solaris was on, put in an empty hard drive and installed solaris again. My Question: How can I add my RAID5 array from my previous ...

Greetings,I'm recently testing rsh (restricted, not remote) and I'm able to just type 'bash' and escape to bash.Yes, I cannot execute commands, however I can use cd and change directories.I checked the PATH and there's nothing in there, nor is there in /usr/rbinAny ...

Greetings everyone,I am trying to install Solaris 10 on a x3655. The problem I am having is that my USB floppy will not mount during installation.I need to add the RAID drivers, but when I try to update, the floppy will not mount. (Or I guess it won't see it when I tell it to look for a floppy ...

I'm really confused about licensing requirements for Sun Cluster, and can't get any sense out of Sun!It's an OpenSource product, right, free to download and use? At what point then do you have to buy the licence that costs about $20,000 to use it? After 30 days? If you want to use special ...

We need to recruit 400 beta testers for our new Sun Certified System Administrator for the Sun Cluster 3.2 exam. For beta registration information, test descriptions and test objectives, please see: http://www.sun.com/training/certification/cluster_beta.xml

Hi All,I have a problem with my application Storage Foundation 5.0 on Solaris 10 OS.I have installed SF 5.0 and then I have created cluster with:* Disk Group* Volume* NFSIf the one machine is offline on the second machine network resources are available.Then I restarted my first machine and now ...

Hi Folks,We were recently developing a Cluster solution for our product. And we are planning on using the isaexec approach. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5138/6mba6ua5n?a=viewCreate Hardlinks to various executables and following the isaexec approach of getexecname() and executing the ...

Hi,Under Solaris 10, is it still the maximum number of groups limited to 16?If yes how do you deal with this limitation?For example in situation when you use CMS (such as TeamSite) and there is more that 16 groups defined in that system, how do you map each group to an OS ...

I like see the content of my Ipod, but I don't know how can i do it?

Hi, I have a problem maybe someone can help me with. It's a little drawn out so please bare with me. On my PC I have two hard drives. One has XP on it and the other use to have Vista beta. I formated the vista drive so I can put Solaris 10 on it. One of my problems is that when I boot my PC I ...

I have Solaris 10 installed on my X86 machine. Today when I try to log in with root it doesn't allow me to get in. Log in Incorrect.I have not altered the password and I am sure that I am using the correct password.Unfortunately I donot have any other user created on this machine.Is there any ...

So I'm trying to turn on sendmail on a Solaris10 box, and is run a disable sendmail and the processes die, but then they start back up. Why is this happening and what do I do to make it stop restarting?

Hello,I have a problem when I try to run format command to label a disk of 1TB under solaris 8.# format.......114. c9t14d3 <DGC-RAID3-0322 cyl 32766 alt 2 hd 1 sec 0> /pci@8,700000/lpfc@4/sd@e,3Specify disk (enter its number)[115]: 114selecting c9t14d3[disk formatted]Disk not labeled. ...

In any operating system, when an antivirus software "quarantines" an infected file, what is the special physical location that the quarantined files go to ? Must be somewhere within the harddisk, but are these quarantined files rendered harmless while in quarantine ? What is done to the ...

Solaris 10 11/06 on an Ultra 60 with 2x360Mhz cpus, pretty much a server install, not running much of anything yet.Tried to newfs a 4GB 10k rpm disk on the same bus as the boot drive, which is the same kind of disk. Newfs just hangs, and takes about 30 minutes to finish (date; newfs ...

I have program from nasa that I need to use for some reasearch. The code is written in fortran 77. The compilation process creates an object library that is used to operate on the input data to the program. When I begin the compiliation process, it works pefectly fine. About half way through, ...

Dear Sun Forum, I received the installation DVDs for the Solaris 10 Operating System on 3/23/07. After the installation of the DVD (which went smoothly), I proceeded to start the system. However, when the screen appeared for me to sign on and enter my "User Name" and"Password", the "Password" ...

I have a Sun Ultra 20 with Solaris 10/x86 running at home. I recently reconfigured my DSL modem/firewall and rebooted the modem/firewall. During this, my Ultra 20 locked up. I turned the power off on the Ultra 20, then on again and proceeded through the normal boot sequence. The Ultra 20 starts ...

I have downloaded both the dvd and CD versions of solaris 10, successfully compiling the images of course for the DVD and makingISO disks for the CD's.They will boot fine, right up to the point I get a X session, Solaris begins installing then cores and gives me a standard terminal window.I ...

Hello, folks;On X4100 M2 (two dual-core Opterons) Solaris 10 (118855-36 11/06), even a simple DTrace one-liner causes an abort printing"dtrace: processing aborted: Abort due to systemic unresponsiveness".The program aborts even when the computer is entirely idle. I've been looking for some ...

Hi,Presently I have a cluster set up, which a request is made to change the heartbeat ip address. Understanding from the cluster installation document, this ip is configured, by default, only the first 2 octets. Eg,. 192.172.0.0 The last 2 octets cannot be configured. They will be configured by ...

HiI'm getting this error:"The X-Server cannot be started on display: 0"When booting the system after an ungraceful shutdown, and it will not start. I can still telnet in, I'm guessing the GUI config has got corrupted and I need to fix it, but how? which files?Thanks for ...

I have a configuration with two serves and two SAN Storages, each server is connected to both SAN Storages, we are using host based mirroring, just a plain two node cluster setup.I have regularly warnings in the messages file, and now I have one disk offlined on one Path from one Node, all ...

Hello everybodyI tried to upgrade Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 with installation disk, after installation gather information I pressed install. And installation status is failed with error:Error: The specified root and/or boot was not found or not upgradablePfinstall failed. Exist ...

Hi guys,After installing Solaris 10 and the recommended patches and when lauching SMC 2.1 I got the following message "Server Not Running. No SMS server was available on the specified server".I have noticed that the port 898 was listening through locahost ip (127.0.0.1) instead of the host.If ...

Friends,I am a new member interested in developing ant testing solaris. I am planning to install solaris developer addition. Now my question is is it possible to install solaris on external hard disk?

Hi there,I configured the samba data service as shown in the standard doc examples: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3063resp. the example from sun cluster oasis: http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/new_solaris_10_experienceI can even register it with the following ...

We have had solaris 10 running for a few months, then we had a power outage. Now, we can successfully ping every site we try, but the server seems to be refusing any and all inbound traffic.Any idea where I should start looking for the problem?Unfortunately, our UNIX admin left for greener ...

I have a question on Solaris 10 running on sparc platform. On an roughly idle system (no one is running anything (not even the cron jobs) except me), I have, on the one hand, a script running rsync, and the other "vmstat 5" tracking the free-list column. I noticed that the free-list keeps on ...

I have recently installed a new zone and I am trying to log into the new zone via telnet and I get the following error;telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refusedwhen i check the services on the zone they are as follows;# svcs -aSTATE STIMEFMRIlegacy_run12:25:02 ...

Hiis it possible for a server to have its hostname become 'unknown' by itself? Prior to this happening, no one has login to make any changes to the configuration.Cheers

After jumpstarting one of our servers; I found that RPCBind was not running. When I reboot it on the console, I get the following messages:Mar 27 08:11:23 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network/rpc/bind:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/rpc-bind start" failed with exit status 96.[ ...

Hi,Can we use the pointer returned by "void** ptr = (void * *)shmat();" for accessing the elements in array fashion?I have a pointer to pointer to struct - an array of pointers & I want to access the elements by using array notation of ptr[index].But, when I do so, my process crashes with ...

Hi,I'm having a problem with a package that fails partially when removing with pkgrm. Since it fails partially, all the files are actually removed correctly and the failure is when the remove script tries to remove a directory which is actually a mount. However, since everything is erased, now ...

Dear Gurus,I am trying to install Apache -2.2.3 on Solaris 9. ./configure is successful with out any errors but when i run make it throughs following error# makemake: Warning: Can't find `make.rules': No such file or directoryMaking all in srclibbash: all: command not found*** Error code ...

Despite crowing about Solaris 10 and integration with Active Directory, this is not quite ready for prime time.Here's the issue:In a native Active Directory Services environment (as opposed to 'mixed mode'), Samba on Solaris 10 cannot create an AD entry for the system. It turns out that the ...

Hi Please help me to setup the zone configuration in solaris10ThanksAbi................................

Perhaps I've just not looked in the right place, but I don't understand something that happened last night and thought I would try my first posting to this forum. We run Solaris 8 here still so I am not familiar with Solaris 9. I booted a SB2K from a Solaris 9 CD with the OBP command "boot ...

I have three Solaris 9 systems. I am running a very old implementation of PVCS in binary compatibility mode. On two of the sytems, I log in to the CDE through Exceed, set some variables, and execute a get -l, the file is checked out successfully, and the pvcs logfile permissions are set to 400. ...

I install the sun cluster 3.2 first time and meet the problem here, maybe it is easy for someone.I install 2 nodes cluster in x86 system ,one is sc-1 and another is sc-2,there is the such info in system when install:sc-2===========================scrcmd -N sc-2 test isinstalling"" is not ...

Hello,I accidentaly removed a package (namely SUNWgcc) from the system. I have the Solaris 10 CDs. Is it possible to install this package for the CD? I check the CD and it looks like SUNWgcc on it is not a package that I can install with pkgadd -d.Thank You,PN.

Hi All,What's the diffrence in controling cpu-shares (FSS) from the zoneconfiguration (zone.cpu-shares) and doing this from thecluster framework for the resource group ?Which method is the recommended one in this case?(Sol10u3/sparc ...

Server just upgraded to Solaris 9.Why am I getting this message now?rm: cannot determine if this is an ancestor of the current working directoryI have a large number of scripts that use "rm -fr" to remove temporary directories, which is now not happening.

I have a Sunfire V245 that was running on Solaris 9 (very stable). I upgraded to Solaris 10 (6/06) this morning and everything seemed to go smoothly. After the upgrade the system rebooted, but will not boot. I get the following uptput;Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: disk File and ...

Hi all,Please help, while creating the file system using Volume Manager, it gives an error - Line in vfstab has too few entries. And it wont create the mount point. Please help, what does it means?Thank u in advance!!:-)

I am new to solaris. My prob is as follows:I have 2 hard disks, one 40gb and another 160gb.Hd1 has 3 partitions.Hd1p1 : win98Hd1p2 : WinXpHd1p3 : Back-upHd2 has 4 partitions of 40gbHd2p1 : LinuxHd2p2 : back-upHd2p3 : FreeHd2p4 : FreeI want to install solaris on Hd2p4 and boot it using a 3rd ...

I have Fedora core 6 installed on a desktop. I need to install Solaris 10 also in a dual boot. I have 2 hard drives. Fedora core 6 is installed on the first hard drive. I'm just looking for the easiest way to do this so that I may practice learning both operating systems. Any help is much ...

I am new to UNIX (Sloaris 10 for x86 platform)I have a problem that I can't surf internet. However I've done the installation steps well.In installation I entered host name , system IP address, router IP address.I can ping my router but everytime I've opened mozilla browser I see message ...

Hi, anyone know where i can get solaris driver for intel 3945ABG wireless card for my laptop? or atleast how i can work around it. Please help

Hi everybody i recently install this O.S. to my notebook. The installation goes well but when i enter in a new session some devices doesnt work such like:ethernet device : Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller sound device: Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio ControllerSo ...