Hi,I recently created a mirrored setup according to http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/svm_mirroring.htmlHowever, now when I've rebooted the disk-setup looks like follows.# df -kFilesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@0,0:a ...

Hello,I am trying to connect a USB to SATA/IDE Adapter to a USB port on Solaris 8. In the /var/adm/messages file, two messages show the following:usba: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/usb@c,3 (ohci0): getting device status failed (-1)usba: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/usb@c,3 (ohci0): connecting device on port 1 ...

Is there anyway to determine the specific release of Solaris? If I use uname -r then it only gives me like 5.10, but I want to know if it is Solaris 10 11/06.

My solaris 10 sendmail 8.13.7 server won't relay mail from its windoze clients that successfully connect via pop3 (qpopper). So, only internal mail works from the clients. When you're on the sun server, inbound and outbound mail works to and from the wan via the command line or using dtmail, ...

I downloaded and applied the latest st.conf patch (113277-52), which I though would provide the st.conf entry for the SDLT600. But there's still no entry for the SDLT600. Am I misunderstanding what this patch does?Thanks,Harry

I loaded Solaris 10 x86 on my pc and after all the loading and file copying and whatnot when it said to reboot the machine I clicked on the "Reboot Now" button, took the DVD out of the tray, and when the machine booted up all I got wasgrub>Now what?I have 1 GIG RAM. 200GIG HD, AMD Athlon ...

Hi all, how do I enable and configure system resource monitoring in Sun Cluster 3.2? The Sun Cluster Manager online system says to refer to the Sun Cluster admin manual, however, there isn't anything in that manual on resource monitoring, not even a single paragraph. I've discovered some ...

I am attempting to set up a mirror of my entire primary disk c0t1d0 with an identical disk c0t0d0.I issue the commands:metainit d11 1 1 c0t1d0s2metainit: hostname: c0t1d0s2: overlaps with c0t1d0s0 which is mounted as '/'metainit d12 1 1 c0t0d0s2d12: Concat/Stripe is setupmetainit d10 -m ...

I get no disks found.There is no way to disable Smart Array P400 using ROM based settings which appears after pressing F9.It seems the DISABLE option for P400 controller is removed.Has anyone had success in disabling the array controller on ML370G5server?please ...

Hi all,I'm new to Solaris.I am using oracle on solaris5.8. The prstat is showing that oracle is using 99%(32GB) of physical memory,where oracle is supposed to use only 3GB of memory as per our configuration. The top command shows the exact figure i.e. as per expectation. I'm not sure that the ...

I have intalled solaris 10 v11/06 on a blade IBM LS21.1st i'll try with DVD and have error, I searched on the net and found a document which explain what i've to do to install.For that I had to apply 3 patch and driver package to miniroot image.Everything work properly. After installing ...

Hi....Can anybody explain what's the importance of SUDO, How to configure on Solaris 9?

I recently upgraded my Solaris 10 Jumpstart server (JET) to ZFS filesystems for the media directories. When adding the OS images (add_install_server) from the installation disks (ISO - latest) only Solaris 10 seems to work. The Solaris 9 version fails as it doesn't recognise ZFS filesystems. ...

HiI'm quite new to SolarisI've installed solaris 9 on my Enterprise 450 . After installation I wasn't able to see disks attached to my raid controller. If i run probe-scsi-all I see my disks, but not with format. I've found a patch about this problem (115548-01) but the patch make no ...

Hello,I have tried to install Sun Solaris 10 on my IBM ThinkPad R31 notebook, but the system has problem at initial stage of loading the installation software from CD. Here is the message I see on the screen when the CD is loaded:loading stage2 ....GNU GRUB Version 0.95 (639K lower / 514880K ...

I was wondering if there was a set of best practices for multi-terrabyte globally mounted filesystems under Sun Cluster. Is there a filesystem (and volume manager) of choice that people are using?A bit of background: We have a Solaris 10/Sun Cluster 3.1 installation currently with a 6.5 ...

Hi.We are installing a new server with Solaris 10. It is going to require the use of a network driver installed during installation.Unfortunately, I was given a floppy image of the ITU disk and there are no floppy drives on the server.I have a flash drive I can use, but how do I convert the ...

Hi All,Solaris 10 (Sparc) Generic_125100_07 64 Bit Sparc Ultra 60During boot right in the beginning when it is detecting devices it will die and kick me to maintenance mode with the following error:==========================================================ld.so.1: devfsadm fatal relocation ...

Hello,A TapeStor Travan USB tape drive is reported to work on Solaris 10 x86as per HCL. But I don't have a clue how to make it work. The device is attached to mycomputer and shows up in a "cfgadm" command (USB0/2):# cfgadm -alAp_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantConditionusb0/1 ...

Hi all, the department I work in at Uni is to be given some pre-owned Sun Fire V440s and some T1000s from another department. If I were to build a 2-node NFS cluster (Sun Cluster 3.2), what would people recommend I use, the two V440s or the two T1000s?Thanks in ...

HiAs I have to configure Internet in one Intel based Solaris box [Solaris 10] can you tell me the steps how to configure it as I have Brodband connection of Iqara.

I'm trying to build Apache2 on Solaris 10 using the Studio11 compiler. I have current versions of APR, APR-util, and libiconv installed.Configure runs fine, but make fails withUndefinedfirst referenced symbolin filelibiconv_close ...

A V890 machine is connected to Cisco switches then link to a Nortel firewall. After configuring IPMP. pc can telnet and ftp to the sun machine without any problem. Host is showing some errors in message files. But IPMP configuration was done similar for all the SUN machines. V890 log :May 12 ...

Hi,I have four box's of which two are app servers and two are DB servers.External storage is connected only to DB servers and App servers cannot see this.is it possible to configure four node cluster with storage as quorum device?

i've succeeded in installing solaris 10.i am now stuck in a loop.when starting up, the solaris install always starts and want the software 5 disk to continue.i've put in every disk i have, but nothing seems to satisfy the installer so it can continue.i received 3 disks from sun in the mail, a ...

Hello,I noticed that the system has not been writing to /var/adm/messages for some time. Checked for the syslogd daemon and this wasn't running. So I tried restarting syslogd in debug mode:impws02{root}# syslogd -dmain(1): Started at time Thu May 17 11:45:46 2007hnc_init(1): hostname cache ...

I had an unpatched Solaris 10 11/06 system that I finally got around to patching. I selected all 98 available patches and let it do it's thing. Everything went well and I did the required reboot and many of the patches that were applied right before shutdown failed, but quite a few were ...

<Apologies for posting in this thread and the Hardware one>Hi,I have recently got a new processor (a X6990A) and installed it into my Blade 1000; this matches the processor that was originally in it. Ever since then I have had no success with booting Solaris with both the ...

My SUN cluster configuration: Two V210s, EMC Clariion, Sun Cluster 4.1 update 4, Solaris 10 6/06, MPxio. I've installed a two node cluster and it's working. If I boot both nodes at the same time everthing comes up fine. The problem is when I reboot one node in the cluster, the node does not ...

Hello,I am not even up to "New to Solaris Development" level yet. I havent even touched a solaris machine, yet it is my task to figure out a way to test a plug and play USB audio device on a Solaris 9/10 system. The systems we are using are Sun V210s with either Solaris 9 or 10 preinstalled. ...

Hi,I am trying to install Solaris 10 on HP ML370G5 server with P400 RAID Controller. I downloaded the RAID driver from HP site. I was able to run the install CD #1 succesfully but after reboot OS fails to come up. When I select the Failsafe mode it says No installed OS Instance found.What could ...

ive downloaded solaris10 dvd version. when i run setup it says after a while that theres a corrupted file and stops the installation. can anybody tell me what should i do.is there any tool that can find the corrupted file and repair it. ive got slow internet connection and it took me about 2 ...

I've got a couple Solaris 10u3 hosts running as NIS slave servers to a Solaris 8 master.I'd very much like to have them stop spawning rpc.nisd_resolv, so they won't try to do DNS lookups for clients.I've done the traditional two things that accomplish this: removing the -d option to ypserv, ...

Hi,I am creating solaris zone on T2000 with Solaris 10.I am able to limit the CPU's available to zones by configuring the pool and assigning it to zone while creating.But I am unable to figure out the steps to limit the physical and shared memory for the zone.Can you please help mw with ...

Hi,Ive got bash on by terminal. I needs to set some Path variables in the enviromental file so I can use things like the make commands etc.Ive looked around the web and apparently its called .bash_profile and is in my home directory.Well ive looked hi and low for this file, even tried to make ...

Hi All, We are looking to lock down some servers by using the /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers Parameter to specify users that are allowed to connect.We have setup the following..AllowUsers test@server.nameDoesn't work, and no-one can log int via SSH at all..however ...AllowUsers testallowed ...

Hi,I am trying to wanboot one of my client (E420) and receiving the following error:Processing profile- Opening Flash archiveERROR: Unexpected HTTP start position 1202417837 (expecting 0)ERROR: Could not read file ( http://172.28.190.121:80/flash/archives/sol_10_sparc.flar)ERROR: Flash ...

I'm trying to share my internet connection from my Ubuntu laptop to my Solaris box. Traceroute works on the solaris machine so, I know there is internet connection between the two. my output when I do ifconfig -a#ifconfig -alo0: ...

IntroductionThis assignment requires you to build a Graphical User Interface (GUI) onto the Bank application you built for assignment 1. The main ones that you will need to be aware of are:? ?The Vector of Customer objects is now a private static variable (called customers) of the Customer ...

Hi, I have been trying to take ownership for this newly created disk set but the system never allows me. Even i tried to shutdown one node but still not working. The system always gives me error metaset: essdbp01: ora-dbp-dg: must be owner of the set for this commandHow can I take the ownership ...

Hi...I'm very new to Solaris and I'm only installing on it...I had to uninstall the software I installed and reinstall it again...but it seems there are some JDBC or data sources names still on the system and were not removed during the uninstall...it's a sub zone and there is nothing else ...

Hi,I was wondering if it is worth spending $240 to get a one year of Solaris support. I am an independant developer using Java on Solaris 10.Anyone have any thoughts on this?Thanks

For the past several hours, I have scoured the internet searching for an answer to what I thought would be a very simple question. Perhaps it is still a very simple procedure ... I am just at my wits end, though, as to how to do this.What I want is for a "normal" user to be able to shutdown the ...

Currently I am running Solaris Express Developer however i noticed there is no Subversion or CVS installed by default.The version I am running is as follows.bash-3.00$ uname -aSunOS solaris-devx 5.11 snv_55b i86pc i386 i86pcAny ideas if there is a newer version, and whether it has subversion ...

Hi all, at the Uni where I work, we currently have a 2 node (2 x v480) Sun Cluster running iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2. We are looking at upgrading the mail system to Sun Java Messaging Server 6.3, and possibly Calender, later this year. What do people recommended we upgrade the hardware too? ...

Hello Solaris gurus,I am trying to install Solaris 10 11/06 x86 on my SONY Vaio laptop. I already have Windows XP installed and I have reserved about 9 GB for Solaris (same hard drive). I have been reading threads on a bunch of different forums about dual-booting XP and Solaris. I had done it ...

I want to add an additional disk to a Solaris 10 server.In the past, I used Disksuite on Solaris 8 server.I do not see Disksuite on Solaris 10.Is Disksutie part of Solaris 10or Should I used Format uitility to add the hard drive and then volumne manager to extend the new hard ...

I compiled my own MySQL 5.0.41 and have it installed in /opt/mysql and everything works fine. I hunted around and found a manifest and startup script here http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/mysql_smf_tip.html and it never starts MySQL, it just stays in a persistent maintenance ...

Hello,Given a configuration with 4 internal drives, is there a reason not to create and mount /var on a different drive? Is there any requirement that /var be on the same physical drive as / or just that it be mount-able?For example, if the root filesystem and swap are mirrored on disk0 and ...

I need to upgrade a few Blade 100's to Sol 10 and I'm looking to use a Addonics DVD instead of the installed CDROM. These work fine after the machine is running the OS, so I know the hardware works. So now, what is the boot string necessary from the boot prom? (boot ...