Well im about to reinstall Solaris 10 (hate that i just complted the 100+ patches just yesterday) because apparently the file system slice / is too small by default (why?)and im not sure where to make the currection because I actually thought I had done this. During the installation, I selected ...

how would one be able to work out how solaris work out its own process scheduling ? (e.g algorithm ) been flipping the FAQ"s

Hi,I have recently acquired a Dell XPS210 desktop machine on which I was hoping to make a contribution to the OpenSolaris community. I have spent 5 days trying to install 4 different flavours of Solaris, all to no avail. These are:Solaris Express Community Edition v11 build 67Solaris Express ...

Hi,Has any one installed cluster 3.2 on 2 nodes with one local zone each, when oracle is running on the local zones.1. Where to install the oracle binaries? ( Global or local disk)?2. How to define the Storage res-group for the zones (HAStoragePlus)?3. Is any one has all the steps to a perform ...

Hi there.I noticed a bug in fgrep (SunOS 5.9 Generic_118558-30 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890). This one bothers me a bit: If I use a fgrep -f and giving a long list of patterns (here 17000 stored in a file, each line 1 pattern, Size 300kb) the result is sometimes (not eachtime) faulty. I would ...

I am a new user of sun solaris 10. I am using sunfire 280 for test. I am trying to install Quantum DLT7000 tape backup device to my sun fire. Is there any one who can tell me how to do it step by step? Thank you very much.

I am new to this, I just got my solaris dvd set, I have installed it and I tried several times to log in, but I keep running into the same issue, I am able to input my login name, but it refuses to let me type in my password, it doesn't matter what I type, nothing happens, no letters no ...

Hi How do I find the file creation date with out using ls and cut commands ?for example:%filecrdate <name_of the_file>2007-03-04

is there an easier way to get solaris to connect to the internet, because no matter what I do, my connection remains idle, this is getting really annoying.ps, sorry for the change in screen name, I couldn't recover it since I kept getting the username is already taken message, even though I ...

hi,top command shows that the swap is too low (57G in use 382M free) and at the same time, the memory is at ease: 32 G real and 13 G free.is it possible to have a low swap while free RAM is ok?thanks.

Dear all I have Sun Cluster 3.0 running on Solaris 8 , i want to upgrade Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 , without touching cluster Is it possible ?Regards

Hi,Sun are here helping us build a 2 node cluster on V245s, solaris 10, Solstice Volume Manager,Cluster 3.1 using EMC CX700s for disk storage. Everthing appeared to be Ok until we tried to sync the disk sets across sites. Some disk sets worked Ok ,others never got past 0% and gave the error ...

hi,OS: Solaris 10 11/06SOFT: Sun Cluster 3.1u4system disks of both nodes has raid1.after 6 monthes i've found that /global partition is not in raid and mounts as partition of first disk and etc.is it possible and how to migrate two partitions to raid1 of every ...

Hi,I installed Solaris 10 11/06 on x86.My server has an active usb to ps/2 adapter on wich i connect PS/2 PC keyboard and mouse.I've updated xorg to 7.2 with solaris packages.my xorg.conf :Section "ServerLayout"Identifier"X.org Configured"Screen0 "Screen0" 0 0InputDevice"Mouse0" ...

Hi!I can successfully create Solaris packages using build variables as shown in the following prototype file.Please note that I may use the build variable $VersionTAO within the path.!VersionTAO=1.4.5f none usr/tao/lib/libTAO.so.1.4.5=/usr/tao/$VersionTAO/lib/libTAO.so.1.4.5But when I replace ...

Solaris Express Developer 5/07 5.11 x86 install Asus P5RD2-VM Seagate drives:Disks c1d0 c2d0 Solaris configures via installer c1d0(boot) allowed to use entire drive.Disk two c2d0 is already configured with Bootloader (/dev/sda) sda1 60 gig ext3 (Ubuntu) sda2 1 gig swap remainder sda3 fat32 for ...

We are having problems with reverse DNS resolution for our private IP addresses.We first noticed this when our syslog-ng was not displaying name in the log entries, but rather IP addresses.Nslookup and dig reversed resolved the addresses fine, so we don抰 think the issue is in DNS.We further ...

I can not get NFS to enableroot@owsas2 /> svcs -a |grep nfsdisabled10:24:08 svc:/network/nfs/server:defaultonline 10:03:35 svc:/network/nfs/status:defaultonline 10:03:36 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:defaultonline 10:21:37 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:defaultonline 10:22:33 ...

Hi AllI get this error on compiling. Any idea what this is and what needs to be done to fix this.Thanks in advance.Regards

i was wondering, i have windows xp on my dell dimension 8200 and according to the sun website, solaris 10 should be able to run on it, however before installing, do i have to uninstall windows xp? or do i just install solaris 10 so i have 2 OS's at the same time? how does that work?

I tried to load Sol 10 on IBM and it was no go, loaded 11 Dev no problem except I had to also add the Broadcom drivers to get the NICS up. I think that 10 and 11 use BIND 9, but I have been told that I must use BIND 8 for my project.Any info on how to go from BIND 9 to BIND 8 on Sol 11 Dev ...

Hi, I run backup at night, the most important directories archived using tar.Since then disappears system's memory (about 1Gb). I tested this processwith memleak.d from http://blogs.sun.com/sanjeevb and found many leaksfor tar: # findleaks.pl /tmp/tarlog | morePtr=0x445e8 Size=48 ...

Hello,I have a setup in Solaris 9, where in a multi threaded java program triggers mailx command to send emails."mailx" command is executed using Java's Runtime.exec() method. Now the problem is, out of some 100 mailx command that is triggered, atleast 4 or 5 mailx command hangs. i.e., when ...

Hi ExpertsI have small problem and doubtIf i login to global zone ... "zlogin -C -e @ testzone" how to logout from global zone......testzone# when i press exit button it is comeing to zone login promptzone1 console login: @ ( from Zone login prompt i want to come back to my normal solaris ...

Hi, I am new to solaris.How to find that a solaris command is executed successfully? If we use history command , it will show the command history only.How can I know that one command is executed successfully and where can I find the logs for it?If any one knows , help me.Thanks and ...

Hi,I'm trying to find out the which process is using port no 8010 If i do a ps -ef, then it displays all the ports, if i do a netstat then i get the open port, Since these two doesn't have anything in common, I cannot relate both.(If PID was there in netstat, it would have been easy)In ...

I wanted to set up XDMCP on a Solaris machine so I could use some programs that are only GUI based. I noticed that I can log into the machine only once. Afterwards, I can load up the login screen, but after I enter the password, I get booted off. I have to ssh and reboot in order to login ...

Hello, folks.Is there any trick to display disk space in human readable format in Solaris 8, 9, & 10 using DU -h like that of Linux?Please advise.Thanks a lot!

If I had a basic program (written in C) running and compiled on a Sparc/Solaris platform and copied the executable to a Solaris/X86 platform, would it have a chance to execute successfully?

Apparently the new release has a couple of things I have difficulty with at install. These issues are not in the previous 2/07 release:1) 5/07 installs the NIC with DHCP active and no way can I get the static IP address to stick even tho' the various utilities and files call nge0 address at my ...

helloI have juste installed Solaris 10, actually i still have solaris 8 in the others station SUN BLIDE 1500.the last administrator has give me ?procedure to follow for installing ?new SUN station from the other station that store ?disk image in /dump repertorie. now i want create i image disk ...

Well I ran into a few issues where i could basically do nothing with Solaris due to the limited space on the installation slice at /So reinstalled, I removed /export/home slice and reallocated that space back to the root directoryNow I assume somewhere I will have to make some adjustments to ...

I got the Ath driver installed as well as the wificonfig and wpa_daemon. I also installed inetmenu but I am having some rather odd connection issues.when I run inetmenu, I can see two wirless networks: mine (a belkin wep/wpa encrypted network) and my neighbors (an unsecure network)Before I ...

I installed solaris on my x86 machine through the cd downloads online. After the installation, it rebooted and tried to load.I get this error continuously:Warning:/pci@0,0/pic-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (disk0):error for command 'read sector' error level:fatalrequest block 1364272, error ...

The missing files on Companion Dvd SFWgprnt SFWhpijs SFWssl. .Why include a package that can't be installed (complete) in the Companion Dvd?Can anyone advise where the remaining packages might be obtained?I tried the openssl from http://sunfreeware.com/openssl-0.9.7g-sol10-intel-local.gz but ...

Hi guys,I was moving a FS to another location through tar command and I found the existence of the following directory /usr/lib/32/32/32/32/32.... repeatedly.Is this normal ?Thanking you in advance

Hi,I am new to Solaris 10, I just installed the OS on a intel 865G. I have a built in LAN/NIC on the mother board. Everything looks fine except for the network/LAN. The NIC does not seem to be installed. I checked the drivers CD of the motherboard, but there are no drivers available for Solaris ...

All,My SUN box is v440 and using SUN5.8.In one of my apps, there is 'ulimit -nS 1024' value in scripts.What I want to know is where the value of user's limitation in configuration files ?Or how could I do that ?In linux, it seems to be set in /etc/security/limits.conf file. right ?If so, ...

Is the scadm command no longer available in Solaris 10? I can't find the command or a package to install it. Does the new ALOM CMT on the T1000/2000 no longer support this command?

Hi Cab any one tell me where i will get the proper document about the solaris 10 zone ( with confiuration steps and all about zones)Thanksrj

Hi,My requirement is to work on ORACLE 10g Database using Solaris 5.8. I want to know whether it will work successfully in the long run or what is the best version of Solaris which can be used with ORACLE 10g. Thanks

how t ochange the default umask value. umask commands changes the value only for a perticular session. Which file(s) must be modified to alter default umask during boot time. I dont want to write anything in .profice or .bashrc. I want to change the umask before that.

Is there a place where I can download invidual Sun Solaris 10 packages, now that FTP is gone.Specifically:systemSUNWarcLint Libraries (usr)systemSUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOSsystemSUNWheaSunOS Header FilessystemSUNWi15cs X11 ISO8859-15 Codeset SupportsystemSUNWi1cs X11 ISO8859-1 ...

Hi all,I mounted the directory containing cluster 3.2 but can only see the features for cluster 3.2. I download the right "cluster3.2 zip" file.Could someone give some directions?thank you, peter

Hello,Please Which service on solaris 10 provides similar service as active directory on MS Windows Platform.

when I attempt to login with my account other then root (the graphical login). it goes to that black screen "SunOS Release 5.10 ... and Starting Desktop Login on display :0 Waiting for Desktop Login screen before logging in." It then goes back to the graphical login screen. i can only seem to ...

I've seen refrences to SC 3.2u1 on sunsolve & have noticed some patches were released for SC 3.2.Looking on docs.sun.com I can't find any release notes on it (only for 3.2): http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6611?q=sun+cluster+3.2u1&a=expandThe docs on docs.sun.com say that there is ...

this command:#telnet 192.168.1.1 25responds: ESMTP Sendmail 8.x.x.x.x.x OK!but.. from a terminal there is no answer.What can I do?Thanks.RegardsMessage was edited by: chupito

I am performing a Systems Admin role for 30 Solaris 10 systems (consisting of 67 Solaris zones and domains) at present.My support team colleagues have installed Nagios (an open source SNMP based monitoring software) to enable alerting should any issues occur.This works fantastically for our ...

We are facing to migrate appication from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10,Compilation was not a problem, but while running the application it is raising the following fault,tail of truss Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS %pc = 0x100025CA8siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x101394CCReceived signal #10, SIGBUS ...