pb at installation not asking for network connectivity

258 byte By JusteUneQuestiona at 2007-11-27 5:32:35
Hello i m installing Solaris 10 on for x86. I m following the tutorial for installing solaris 10.After the welcome screen appears i dont have the network connectivity screen. I go straight to set date and time.What could be the problem ?

crontab

214 byte By s@mira123a at 2007-11-27 5:34:13
hi All,Can anyone point me out how to add a new crontab without deleting the existing crontabs..if the usage is crontab -e, then how can i save the changes and exit?Regards,Scotty

svc:/system/basicreg:default

426 byte By jaco1950a at 2007-11-27 5:34:17
Hi,I have installed Solaris 10 on a V240.I have installed Storage foundation Veritas VXVM VXFSI have don't encapsulated disks.I have installed patches 123003-02 123630-01 and 123005-05At boot svc:/system/basicreg:default not start.If i look with svcs -a i see maintenance for this service and i ...

URGENT: Mirror Problem.

1570 byte By DarrenLCCa at 2007-11-27 5:35:31
Our var partition filled last night and crashed the machine with various errors writing to the mirrored Disk. I was able to bring it up and clear some space on var, but now a metastat is reporting Needs Maintenance on both submirrors as below. This is present for all the mirrors. Also on boot ...

Converting an EFI labeled disk to SMI, SUN Solaris SPARC 11/06

681 byte By nodelista at 2007-11-27 5:35:35
I would like to know the proper way to convert a disk labeled EFI to SMI. I have looked at some documentation and they state not to use format -e to convert the label, but to use fdisk.>> However fdsik seems to only work on Solaris for intel x86 and not SPARC. due to the lack of any ...

HOW TO: Change Resolution in CDE (Common Desktop Environment)

85 byte By re.tfa at 2007-11-27 5:35:42
Hi All,How I change Screen Resolution to 1024x768 in CDE?Thannks

Belkin wireless card F5D7010 RT2500 chipset on Solaris10 IBMthinpad R40

558 byte By rsola at 2007-11-27 5:35:57
I have a Belkin F5D7010 wireless card with RT2500 chipset .I have been trying to set up this wireless card on Solaris10 (IBM thinkpad R40 box) for the past week, without success. If i use ndis wrapper I am getting $chicago$ Segementation Fault core dumped error while running ./ndiscvt -i ...

Installing RT2500 Network Card

910 byte By Xannena at 2007-11-27 5:38:28
I need to install a driver for my RT2500 PCI wireless network card on my Solaris 10.So I went to the ralink website (the manufacturer of the network card), and downloaded the linux (well supposedly the unix driver) binary file. Burned it to dvd, and copied from the dvd to my solaris computer.So ...

Java Web Console PAM service name

134 byte By adeasona at 2007-11-27 5:38:41
What is the service name used by the PAM login module for the Java Web Console? I can't seem to find this documented anywhere.

URGENT : MMAP Problem on solaris 10

1023 byte By moulali_da at 2007-11-27 5:39:44
Problem : When trying to create a memory mapped file the application is dumping core.OS : Solaris 10Analysis: When the memory mapped file size is an exact multiple of the page size, the application is dumping core. It looks like mmap() is having the problem when handling files that of size ...

cluster on zones

201 byte By mros71a at 2007-11-27 5:40:11
Hi everybody ,I would create a sun cluster with one server and using as nodes two zones of the same server with Solaris 10 installed ..It is possible?Thanks a lot for help..

Solaris10 libc bug: regexec() hangs

1883 byte By edwin.toroka at 2007-11-27 5:40:24
Hello,I have found a bug in Solaris10 libc. Compiling a regex containing combinations of +,*,? characters, and executing it on a certain string leads to a hang of regexec().The regexec is finite in length, and is compiled successfully, the string I want to match with is finite in length, so ...

Quorum Server Question

143 byte By Uffe_ba at 2007-11-27 5:40:32
Hi All,If using two or more clusters, can cluster nodes be quorum servers forfor other clusters?/Regards Ulf

Sun Cluster 3.2

642 byte By javipardoa at 2007-11-27 5:41:02
Hi,I just settle up a 2 node cluster on 2 V490.Both running Solaris 10 11/06, fully patched, as well as SunCluster 3.2.Everything seems ok except that both nodes are unable to mount /global/.devices/node@2. This is ther error "svc.startd[8]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] ...

boot up problem on V440

414 byte By Mr_wanga at 2007-11-27 5:41:59
Hello all:I pluged out all of the V440 harddisk, and repluged in,when i boot up ,i found an error msg "vxdg root initialization failure, error with bootdg", Then we tried to restart it and received another information "ERROR: LSI1030: timeout waiting for interrupt status.ERROR: LSI1030 MPT ...

mac pro install

112 byte By iCreatea at 2007-11-27 5:42:12
Does anyone have any links to, or know of any successful dual boot OS X/Solaris DE installs on a Mac Pro?

make command on Solaris Ex

240 byte By re.tfa at 2007-11-27 5:42:29
Hi All,I have to use make to build one lib, but when I try invoke, it returns me:command not found, see:bash-3.00# makebash: make: command not foundbash-3.00# How I use make on SOLARIS.Thanks

Solaris MD5

96 byte By MESSERa at 2007-11-27 5:43:00
Please anybodyshare MD5 checksum for this filesol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-full.exe

Question on Solaris 10

396 byte By dw1112a at 2007-11-27 5:44:59
Hi,I am a new beginner of Solaris 10. I just installed the Solaris 10 on the x86 PC and everything fine. However, I discovered that the system shown 'Sun Java Desktop System for Solaris'.I would like to have a Solaris in server version instead of desktop version. Is it something wrong ? Is it ...

Question on Solaris 10

395 byte By dw1112a at 2007-11-27 5:45:05
Hi,I am a new beginner of Solaris 10. I just installed the Solaris 10 on the x86 PC and everything fine. However, I discovered that the system shown 'Sun Java Desktop System for Solaris'.I would like to have a Solaris in server version instead of desktop version. Is it something wrong ? Is it ...

Linux or Solaris?

250 byte By dw1112a at 2007-11-27 5:45:24
Hi,Anyone has the experience on install the Oracle 10g on Solaris 10?What will you choose if you need to install the oracle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or Solaris 10 ?Please give me some points if possible.Thanks.

Next Solaris 10 x86 release

268 byte By AlexCurtisa at 2007-11-27 5:46:32
Hi,Could someone please tell me or point me in the direction of the Solaris 10 x86 release dates. Im currently on 11/06 and would like the newer features of the express edition in a more stable supported releaseMany Thanks for any help-Alex

Dual Networks configuration

526 byte By Kboba at 2007-11-27 5:48:17
I'm trying to set up a server that has two network cards. One network card has a static IP and will serve has a DHCP server on this static network. The second card I wish to connect to Broadband connection so it will be a DHCP client. I can confgure it using ifconfig and so forth and it works. ...

Burning Solaris 9 DVD.

495 byte By cdelecolea at 2007-11-27 5:48:18
Hi There !I have downloaded the DVD version of Solaris9, from their web-site.I have now 4 files named :sol-9-905hw-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-a.zipsol-9-905hw-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-b.zipsol-9-905hw-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-c.zipsol-9-905hw-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-d.zipI'd like to know if I need to "merge" those 4 files ...

GUI interface for non-global zones

382 byte By rick23509a at 2007-11-27 5:49:20
My Goal:Create multiple zones, each running different services thus eliminating the need for multiple servers w/out using VMware.What I'm realizing:Everything I've read points back to non-global zones being only a console based environment. Does anyone know if it's possible to login to ...

FTP server problem.

462 byte By Silver75a at 2007-11-27 5:49:56
Hi,I have a FTP server enabled on one of our machine. My requirement is the user has ftp home directory and they should not be able to do cd .. from the current/home directory. What i can do for this?Eg:when i logged in as ftpuser1 my path/home directory is /ftphome/home/ftpuser1i shoud not be ...

Solaris and seconds since epoc

318 byte By nzirdosa at 2007-11-27 5:50:08
Hi,In a Linux environment I can just godate '+%s' to get the seconds since epoc ... how do I get that value in Solaris (any version, really)? It appears that strftimeon Solaris knows nothing about epoc, so I can't triviallyget date to display the ...

solaris 9 session timeouts

670 byte By mdp365a at 2007-11-27 5:50:50
Hi,O/S = Solaris 9I have a newbie question about controlling user session timeouts after a period of inactivity. My current configuration appears to have been created with a session timeout of 5mins.Could someone tell me were session timeouts are controlled from. There is is nothing in my ...

Problem with perl script

313 byte By solarsuna at 2007-11-27 5:51:45
I installed Solaris 10 version 11/06 in my Pentium 3. I tried to test perl script in Mozilla web browser, but it does not excuted. However, when I try it in the terminal, it is worked. Can you tell me what wrong with my configuration. Thank you very much for your help. Cheers ...

Cannot mount CDROM

237 byte By dw1112a at 2007-11-27 5:51:48
Hi,I double clicked the file system and 'CDROM' icon from the Solaris 10, nothing appear..Why ?I also tried to mount the device but I do not the exact device name of CD Rom. How ?Please advise.Thanks.

How to change ip address

507 byte By senthilreddya at 2007-11-27 5:51:54
Hi Guyz,Let say there are my ip address currently on my solaris 10 sunfire v440.192.168.200.10 ip255.255.255.0subnet192.168.200.1 gateway202.56.84.2 primary dns202.56.84.3 alternate dnsand the ip i'm gonna change is 192.200.200.1 ip add255.255.255.0 subnet192.200.200.1 gateway200.50.30.2 ...

User root was partially modified

714 byte By dkbleea at 2007-11-27 5:52:44
hi! I've a newly setup sun solaris 10 server. When i try to change the password for root. It prompted me the message: "The Management server cannot perform the operation requested. If this problem persist, refer to the log viewer for additional information and contact SUN Microsystems Support ...

boot -r, devfsadm , and drvconfig fail to add disks in OS

227 byte By cueta at 2007-11-27 5:52:55
when i connect Disk Array with V880, Probe-scsi-all see disks but boot -r, devfsadm , and drvconfig fail to add disks to OS. That means i can't get any disk from Disk Array. so plz let me know how to solve this problem.

How to find - Log in/out information solaris & ......(most Urgent)

499 byte By Thamaraia at 2007-11-27 5:53:45
Hiwe can get information from "/var/adm" cat sulogwho ever logged in root and used su - <username> now i want to know that 1. all the user who ever logged in / out those information required. 2. who ever used "rm" (deleted file - is it possible to find when it removed ?)(is it possible to ...

configuring openSSL on solaris

236 byte By sandip_03_jsfa at 2007-11-27 5:54:17
Hi All,I am new to this.I have successfully configured openSSL on Win-XP.Can anybody tell me how to configure openSSL on Solaris.I have tomcat 5.5 as my server.Please help me.ThanksSandip

How to Maintaion two versions of Solaris in same box

251 byte By RAJAIYERa at 2007-11-27 5:54:23
HiAs I would like to know that whether it is possible to install and keep two versions of Solaris in the same SPARC/I386 architecture, like windows 2000/windows 2003 in Microsoft. If it is possible than what are the steps to do the same.

system clock slides away

475 byte By Dogbert_2003a at 2007-11-27 5:55:05
running Sol 10 x86 11/06 ; ntp is setup to synchronize to public available ntp servers. after startup, eveything is fine. ntp reports synchronizing to time sources. minimal offset and dispersion. after running some hours system loses time sync and is running far to late.the time sources are ...

Amazing Output with finger, who...

381 byte By @alex@a at 2007-11-27 5:55:13
Hello,Look at my outputs :bash-2.05$ whotestpts/1May 30 16:44(eX)test2pts/4May 30 15:10(f8)bash-2.05$ fingerLoginNameTTY IdleWhenWheretesttestpts/1Wed 16:44 eXtest 2test2pts/4Wed 15:10 f8What are those characters ?!? (eX) (f8)I should have (nb4642.main.root.work.ch)Any Ideas ...

plz Darren_Dunham help me.

338 byte By cueta at 2007-11-27 5:56:19
hi, in my V880, OS is Solaris 8. problem is when i connect my V880 with Disk Array(3310) using scsi cable, system(devfsadm -C) can detect disk array, but solaris (#formator #ls /dev/dsk) can't find any disk from Disk Array. may be there is no built in drive for this. so fromwhere and how can i ...

At startup.

538 byte By ellie_a at 2007-11-27 5:56:43
I have a sunbox that's all set up and ready to be used as an intranet server except for one small feature...I need a few things to start running automatically when the computer is booted up and logged in (Specifically: Apache, PHP and MySQL which are already installed).Google has been less ...

iconv and Solaris 8 / 10

895 byte By bsergeana at 2007-11-27 5:57:03
I am building an application for Solaris using the Qt toolkit, which needs libiconv support.I have the following problem. I would like to have a binary compiled on Solaris 8 running on Solaris 10, but: - On Solaris 8, the build links against /usr/lib/libiconv.soAnd this library is not present ...

Change Hosts and IP ?!

486 byte By dw1112a at 2007-11-27 5:58:06
Hi,I tried to modify the file in /etc/hosts and I changed the host name and IP address.However, it does not work. It will automatically added a line by DHCP.Here it is:127.0.0.1localhost192.168.17.10 Solaris10#I added192.168.17.34 unknown# Added by DHCPHow can I remove the ...

pxe booting

219 byte By lshirotaa at 2007-11-27 5:58:31
i already read the hardware requirements for solaris 10.https://www.sun.com/software/solaris/specs.jspbut is it possible to PXE boot with only 256 mb ram? since 512 mb is only a "recommended amount"

Sendmail Issue

631 byte By Saszalya at 2007-11-27 5:59:46
Good day,Im wondering why is that when i do "svcadm enable sendmail" the sendmail would run 2 things:/usr/lib/sendmail -Ac -q15m/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m -C local.cfright now im having problem whenever i start the sendmail by using svcadm because it would run the local.cf which causing prob ( ...

ZFS as a swap area

264 byte By neilnewmana at 2007-11-27 6:00:08
I am planning to migrate from UFS to ZFS and have a couple of questions:How do you automount a ZFS file system as swap?To avoid me allocating a part of a disk as RAW for our Ingres installation, can Ingres use a ZFS filesystem as a RAW device?

Oracle-HA in a local zone Cluster 3.2

201 byte By yacovbma at 2007-11-27 6:01:13
I am trying to install a failover Oracle 10g in a local zone on a node failing over to a local zone on the second node.I need some help.Can any one give some pointer to achieve the above.

booting from cdrom is faling

1177 byte By tachuSunDNa at 2007-11-27 6:03:26
Hello all,Situation: I have installed in a SUN V240 Solaris 10. I need to reinstall the Solaris 8. So I put the DVD Rom, reboot the machine and then in halt mode.I have the Solaris disks ( I got an image) from originals (I'm not on site with the right ones).When I try to boot from this I got ...

Creating STRIPE using UFS and ZFS

234 byte By durga.tirunagaria at 2007-11-27 6:03:38
I have the following disks:c7t2d0 c7t3d0 c7t4d0 c7t5d0 c7t8d0 c7t9d0 c8t2d0 c8t3d0 c8t4d0 c8t5d0 c8t8d0 c8t9d0Now I want to create a STRIPE with these disks first using UFS and then Using ZFS. Any ideas ?_D

sendmail high availability

118 byte By ASIF@SUN.COMa at 2007-11-27 6:03:58
guys is there any body who give me solution on configuring sendmail on sun cluster 3.1thanks.Asif

Number of open file descriptors

593 byte By dedke01a at 2007-11-27 6:04:04
In Solaris 10 we have the following two kernel parameters:rlim_fd_max - which has a default value of 65536rlim_fd_cur - which has a default value of 256However to see what these values are, you run the following command:kstat -n file_cache and look at the buf_total or buf_max - but they don't ...