ulimit values are retrieved from where

122 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:46:34
<p>I would like to know where is the ulimit value stored in the shell. And how to get or modify it using the C program</p>

Firefox flash plugin - Not working

799 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:48:31
Hi Friends,I have installed Firefox and it is working perfect. Now when i installed the flash plugin and tried to access a flash file embedded html file, it is not working.The error log is as follows:LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so ...

Firefox flash plugin - Not working

838 byte By Parasou79a at 2007-11-27 10:48:35
Hi Friends,I have installed Firefox and it is working perfect in my Solaris X86 system version 5.10 . Now when i installed the flash plugin and tried to access a flash file embedded html file, it is not working.The error log is as follows:LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library ...

whereis command

129 byte By kaush28a at 2007-11-27 10:49:12
<p>I wonder where did 'whereis' command do in solaris. I thought it was not a platform specific uinix command.</p><p>Mahima</p>

Query regarding gethostbyname_r

133 byte By nagarajaa at 2007-11-27 10:49:22
<p>Hi,</p><p>Can you please let us know why the function gethostbyname_r returns errno 22 (EINVAL).</p><p>Regards</p><p>Vikas K N</p>

error with UFSDUMP Solaris - disk not responding to selection - dad1: disk

8432 byte By jimmy@hga at 2007-11-27 10:49:33
In last days I have made backup of level 0 of my Solaris 8 SPARC using ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0 /silcename, each slice was copied correctly, with the exception of my /oracle partition (slice) on which the following error is log: -Jul 8 11:54:58 server1 dada: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: ...

Solaris 10x86u4

516 byte By m3system_marceloa at 2007-11-27 10:49:59
Hi ,When the new update u4 for Solaris 10x86 will be avaliable ?The Xen will be include in Solaris 10x86 u4?Best Regard'sMarcelo Moreira Martins marcelo.martins@m3system.com.brTechnical Consultant - Tarantella Systems EngineerSE- Systems Engineer - M3 System Integrator.Sun Microsystems do Brasil - ...

Solarid 10 - DISPLAY problem with GUI based applications when 'su -'

1108 byte By kaush28a at 2007-11-27 10:50:30
Hi guys,I have solaris 10 on a workstation sunblade 150.I have problem running smc as root (su) when logged in as regular user. I get following error.# /usr/sbin/smc &[1] 878# It appears you are attempting to run the graphicalSolaris Management Console from a terminal which doesnot have a ...

Thorny locale issue..

1404 byte By DexterFa at 2007-11-27 10:50:51
Two machines, A, which is Solaris 9 and B which is Solaris 10.Both built by Jet, some months apart with the following as the locale definition.base_config_sysidcfg_system_locale=en_GB.ISO8859-15Both systems have the /etc/default/init set the same, ...

Sunfire with Solaris 8 - Best way to transfer all data

539 byte By DonaldRa at 2007-11-27 10:51:31
Can anyone tell me what method is best to take all the data from one system : Sunfire V250 to another system Sunfire V125.Using Solaris 8 on the source machine.Planning to upgrade on the SunfireV125 after the restore, to Solaris 10 and all its apps.The only apps installed on the source machine is ...

About format . Please help me!

1216 byte By lhja at 2007-11-27 10:53:56
hello! admin!environment: 2 X E2900 + 2 X Brocade fc switch + 1 X SE6130system:solaris10U2;cluster 3.1;userd MPXIO Two machine hostname:one is systong ,the other is synbak.At synbak execute format is Normal.But at systong execute format#formatSearching for disks...doneAVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. ...

directio

1480 byte By peppya at 2007-11-27 10:55:20
Hi All,Iam working on SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880 system.I have read in manpages of directio() system call that, using this we can improve performance(improve speed) in reading and writing big(GB) files.Below is the sample program. For testing i tried both with and ...

ssh tunelling X11 error

1094 byte By Aijaza at 2007-11-27 10:56:55
hello there,I am using solaris 10 on my sun sparc ultra 10 box.I am facing problems connecting to a remote server using the X11feature of ssh. This is the error message i when i tryto log on to that server. I do get logged on but i cannot get thexwindows system to work on my box.that means i can ...

Solaris 10 - sun4v - unsupported platform group?

1108 byte By walter_sa at 2007-11-27 10:57:27
After a bit of searching I've found this question asked in various places in this forum without having an answer. Is anyone able to help me and the others ...

Enable X11

445 byte By newtestera at 2007-11-27 10:57:53
Hi,When we install Solaris 10 with the "Remote Services" set to disabled, we then have to manually start individual services (like ftp, telnet, etc.) with "svcadm enable".I am having some trouble finding the correct services that will enable a remote X-emulation (ex: CDE desktop). Enabling the ...

DNS and Static IP Address Question on Solaris v10 X86

7216 byte By mburkeoha at 2007-11-27 10:57:58
Ive recently installed Solaris v10 X86 and have two questions. The system is a Dell E521 with 4GB RAM and 1GB SysKonnect NIC, and internet is provided via a cable modem, thats plugged into a Netgear router, and the Solaris 10 box is plugged into the Netgear router via a CAT5 ethernet cable.1. I can ...

submirror names and jumpstart

558 byte By pppooopa at 2007-11-27 10:58:12
I am trying to install Solaris 10 U3 via jumpstart. I would like to set up the server so that it is running SVM after the install. The following profile gets close to what I want:filesys mirror:d0 c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 8192 /filesys mirror:d10 c0t0d0s1 c0t1d0s1 8192 swapfilesys mirror:d30 c0t0d0s3 ...

IPMP setup + no gateway

579 byte By chachaaa at 2007-11-27 10:58:44
Hi Gurus,Need some help, I have a 2 node cluster in the process of being setup where we have used a 1Gb link in a seperate VLAN for exclusive access to the db. Because there are only 2 nodes required in this VLAN I have used IP's from a private range 172.16.0.0/12 hence no routing involved, no ...

Storage Assesment on Solaris 9 & 10

915 byte By nicole1980a at 2007-11-27 11:00:04
Hi All,I've been tasked with doing a storage assessment of our Sun servers. We need to find out the following from our servers:1. Largest files2. Duplicate files3. Total used space4. Total free space5. Files not accessed in over a year6. Files not backed up.7. Output should be easily put in a ...

zfs newbie question

1076 byte By Roberto_Pereyraa at 2007-11-27 11:00:08
HelloI have a fresh Solaris 10/6 install. My disk have 20Gb but I used only10GB for the base solaris installation and home directory.I have 10GB free without any partition.I would like to use my free space to store my zones using zfs filesystem.In example:/zones/zone/zona1/zone/zone2How I can ...

Patch 119848-02 is failing with pkgadd failiure

742 byte By imran@sun_admina at 2007-11-27 11:01:28
Hi ,I need help on this issue..I need to install patch 119848-02 which fails because the package SUNWsrspx is not installedI downloaded NetConnect.003.001.001 package and executed the script as follows ./InstallNetConnect.003.001.001.shIt fails with following error. pkgadd: ERROR: The package ...

Is there pkg command like 'rpm --upgrade'?

263 byte By Daniceexia at 2007-11-27 11:03:13
<p>I am using the pkgadd to install the application pkg. I want to know if there is pkg command like 'rpm --upgrade' to upgrade a pkg from verion 1.0 (already installed) to 2.0 (new version) directly.</p><p>I am appreciated for your response. </p><p>Thanks.</p>

need help

408 byte By nagygamala at 2007-11-27 11:03:31
dear all,i am new in sun system & i have sun sparc 20 with external HDD 9GB .this HDD faile & i replace it with the new one HDD 18GB & format it as the old one for (/var , /usr2, /usr4) and i restore usr4 & usr2 successfully & /var but when I make a reboot & making df k I ...

sun sparc20

408 byte By nagygamala at 2007-11-27 11:03:38
dear all,i am new in sun system & i have sun sparc 20 with external HDD 9GB .this HDD faile & i replace it with the new one HDD 18GB & format it as the old one for (/var , /usr2, /usr4) and i restore usr4 & usr2 successfully & /var but when I make a reboot & making df k I ...

crontab not working?

373 byte By K79a at 2007-11-27 11:04:43
Hi,I have a Solaris sparc 5.9 setup. When I give the command crontab -e, instead of opening an editor the control comes to the next line with 0 displayed. Then I have to use CTR+Z to come back to the prompt. The have pasted the screen shot of the same:$ crontab -e0^Z[2]+ Stopped crontab -e$Kindly ...

mailx unable to send mails to outside world?

180 byte By K79a at 2007-11-27 11:05:07
<p>hi</p><p>on a solaris sparc 9 environment <b>mailx</b> command is unable to send mails to the outside world. What could be the reason & needs to be checked?</p><p>thanks</p>

I am confused!

611 byte By ggaudreau2a at 2007-11-27 11:06:08
Sun v210. Fresh install of Solaris 10, 11/06 . All commands are done as root.I am unable to create a sub-directory under /homeThe error I get is mkdir: Failed to make directory "toto"; Operation not applicable I don't have NFS loaded. --> share returns nothing. /home is not a mounted filesystem. ...

Solaris Vol. Mgr. Question

2401 byte By sunsysadm2003a at 2007-11-27 11:06:15
I have a Solaris 10 server with two internal disk drives. The drives are c0t0d0 and c0t1d0. Yesterday, c0t1d0 (mirrored drive) died and I had it replaced.Below is the metadb -i output from the failure--flagsfirst blkblock counta m p lu 16 8192/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7ap l 82088192/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7M Wp l ...

Memory and swap problem

3556 byte By Vodola at 2007-11-27 11:06:24
I have a question regarding memory and swap calculations in Solaris.I have box that has 2GB of RAM and 3GB of swap. I use ps command to check how much memory each program consumes. When I sum results I get numbers those are much smaller than memory and swap sizes: sum of the total size of the ...

Disk space crisis

600 byte By vietexoba at 2007-11-27 11:06:51
Hi all,I installed Solaris 10 on a 15-GB partition. According to the wesite http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/specs.jsp, it needs only 2 GB mim; now after using for a while I discover that I only have less then 400 MB space left on that partition (the status bar in the Explorer-like window of ...

prstat gets cut off

326 byte By kalariea at 2007-11-27 11:07:47
When I run the command prstat -u user 1 1 I get about 100 lines of output. Which is fine. But if I pipe or redirect the command it only comes back with about 15 lines. prstat -u user 1 1 |more still cuts it down. So trying to use prstat in a script, like uprstat found elsewere, gives inaccurate ...

Banner message for FTP

375 byte By am4963a at 2007-11-27 11:07:55
I'm trying to setup a banner message for incoming FTP connection for Solaris 10 server. It does not work the way I set Solaris 9 servers. File /et/ftpd/ftpaccess has entry:banner=/etc/ftpd/banner.msgI modified inetd.conf file:ftpstreamtcp6nowaitroot/usr/sbin/in.ftpdin.ftpd -a -lRestarted inetd. ...

Listing the live ipf rules?

171 byte By wsandersa at 2007-11-27 11:08:01
<p>Is there a way to just list the active ipf rules, equivalent to "ipfilter --list"?</p><p>I'm reading the man pages and mystified I can't find it.</p><p>Thanks --w</p>

dumb wine question

514 byte By Sideina at 2007-11-27 11:08:17
I just installed Solaris 10 on my computer 2 days ago and I still want to be able to play windows games. I have heard about about wine so I downloaded the package and added it. Now I have no clue what to do. I cannot run the command wine in the terminal without getting "wine: not found" and if I ...

? Routing between zones

579 byte By BoothDudea at 2007-11-27 11:09:23
FAQ and other (hopefully out-of-date) Solaris forum entries state that inter-zone routing happens internally to Solaris (i.e. packets do not go out over the wire). Is this still the case? If so, is there:A) a reasonable (i.e. doesn't require separate subnets for every zone) workaroundB) plans to ...

Jumpstart client unable to get IP for mac while installation

3160 byte By Vinod_Ka at 2007-11-27 11:10:16
Hi Techies,When I initiate boot vnet0 -install from the ok prompt of the client i get the following message contiously...{0} ok boot vnet1 -v installSun Fire T200, No KeyboardCopyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.OpenBoot 4.26.1, 4096 MB memory available, Serial ...

metdetach in multiuser mode Options

234 byte By ShamimZakia at 2007-11-27 11:12:39
<p>Hi,</p><p>Good day !!!</p><p>Is there any chance of data corruption of the tape drive or the hard disk if I apply metdetach in the multi-user mode and take a backup of the detached hard disk ?</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Shamim A M Zaki</p>

Dynamic DNS on Solaris 10 or Solaris developer edition

274 byte By Kinshuka at 2007-11-27 11:14:42
<p>Hi , </p><p>How do we can configure Dynamic DNS server on Solaris 10 OS , in Linux boxes we can use "dnssec-kegen" and associate with dhcpd.conf , how like same we can do with solaris ,</p><p>any help will be highly appreciable </p><p>Thanks in advance </p><p>Kinshuk</p>

Sun OS 10 Admintool & top utilities

165 byte By nara999999a at 2007-11-27 11:15:00
<p>Hi everyone,</p><p>I have a quick question about Admintool and top utilities in Sun OS 10. Do you know where i can find the package?</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Marin</p>

Where to find a package for installation?

183 byte By nara999999a at 2007-11-27 11:15:04
<p>Hello everyone,</p><p>I have a question about SunSO 10 package. Are they come with the CD/DVD installation? And how you guy identify the package name?</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Marin</p>

virtualized clusters

85 byte By ScottSieea at 2007-11-27 11:15:27
<p>Can anyone please point me to information regarding virtualizing sun clusters?</p>

A small conglomerate of E450/Solaris 10 Questions!

1658 byte By stuartbha at 2007-11-27 11:16:07
To whom it shall concern or can just help out:Solaris 10 QuestionsIf I wish to run an iSCSI target under Solaris 10, will GA do it or do I need the Express verison of Solaris 10 (for an E450, SPARC)?If the GA version of Solaris 10 supports iSCSI targets, how capable is it to socialize that with ZFS ...

Added vim package on Solaris 10, how do I run it now?

1390 byte By Elvarga at 2007-11-27 11:16:24
Hi everyone,Running Solaris 10 with root access.I downloaded vim from the the Sun.com freeware for Solaris 10 page (read: THIS site, not solarisfreeware.com, vim.com or another external site). I first downloaded the dependency packages bundle, extracted the packages, and installed all the packages ...

downloading solaris patches

184 byte By atefeh_1363a at 2007-11-27 11:17:18
<p>dear,</p><p>i need your help becauce i need to download patches(112334-01, 111308-03,108921-16) but unfortunatly i wasn't successful. would you please give me some information?</p>

Installing Solaris 10 on my laptop using Solaris 10 kit DVD

152 byte By eaiToSOAa at 2007-11-27 11:18:26
<p>Please let me know the steps as to how to install Solaris10 using the DVD from Solaris 10 kit DVD. I do not have DVD player on my laptop/desktop.</p>

speed seem to change after solaris wake up

316 byte By log111a at 2007-11-27 11:19:07
I use solaris DE 5/07 in my Thinkpad 43. Everything had gone well untill the machine went to sleep. When it was woke up I found the system work a bit slow. For example, the time for a normal window changing to a minimal form or opening a new site is longer. I don't kown why. Can anyone give some ...

Unable to Change Pingpong_interval

1496 byte By mtalhaa at 2007-11-27 11:19:59
Dear all Oracle malfunctioned on Sun Cluster 3.2 running on Solaris 10 , and try to failover few times and after i dont let be restart resourse group .i tried to change Pingpong_interval but was giving me the following errorsJul 22 00:21:50 PR5 Cluster.RGM.rgmd: [ID 674214 daemon.notice] rebalance: ...

skyr@cer usb wifi: installing zydas driver

1575 byte By karelgha at 2007-11-27 11:20:37
Hi,First and foremost, I hope that this stands in the right place. I'm new to these forum, and seen the fast that this is not high performance networking, I have put this here. I hope this is right?Now to the point. I have just installed solaris 10 as my first non windows OS. Perhaps this was not ...

Problem with installboot command !!

863 byte By sakolan2002a at 2007-11-27 11:22:37
Hi all,I need your help.My SUN machine ( Sun Enterprise 220R) has 2 hard disks : disk0 and disk1.disk0 is the system disk from which I usually boot the system.disk1 is the secondary disk I want to use for backups.I made disk1 bootable with the installboot command :installboot/usr/platform/`uname ...

JVM memory limit on solaris

1205 byte By mavroprovatoa at 2007-11-27 11:23:57
Hello everybody,We are trying to run BEA WebLogic Server on Solaris 10, and we are running in serious trouble. The problem is that the platform we are using requires a lot of memory (1GB at startup!) and after some hours of usage, our application crashed with an OutOfMemory error. The memory ...