/home not writeable when zone is booted.

1636 byte By rzietlowa at 2007-11-27 11:25:28
Just created a zone for some testing, and I am unable to add users or write to /home. This appears to be the only directory I have this problem with.I see nothing in any of the configs that tell me that this dir is special, so any suggestions?What I've done so far and configs. When the zone is ...

Root & User Passwords accept any digits

967 byte By Khuz.za at 2007-11-27 11:26:34
Hi Guys,Need some help please, setting up a new server SunFire V240 with Solaris 9 SPARC.Only after setup complete have I realized that the passwords for all users, including root, can accept any digit as a replacement for any numeric value that exists in their passwords.E.G. If the password is ...

ZFS webconsole show (no devices)

359 byte By spiridonovsa at 2007-11-27 11:26:48
ZFS from command line works perfectly. I can work with all my configured pools and file systems. But when I run the webconcole and go to zfs application it shows me System Summary/Tasks Storage Pools (0) File Systems (0) Volumes (0)Snapshots (0) Device Hierarchy(no devices) Can somebody help ...

can't find solaris 9 installation cd image

438 byte By osmanonura at 2007-11-27 11:27:42
hi people,i need solaris 9 installation cd image ver. 12/03 and/or later but i can not find it any where. i need to reboot the system in single user mode, make some changes to driver_aliases file and reboot the system but of course in order to do this i need solaris 9 installation cd which i don't ...

Installation of SUN V890 Server in Cluster

279 byte By B.V.B.KUMARa at 2007-11-27 11:30:29
<p>Hi All,</p><p>I have 2-node Sun V880 database cluster in ORACLE 10g RAC. Now i want remove V880 Server from Cluster and add new V890 Server in to that. Is it possible? Cluster combination of Sun V890, V880 will work or not. Please suggest me.</p><p>regards</p><p>BVB Kumar</p>

Couldn't add the default project to user (user_attr)

763 byte By igor_tana at 2007-11-27 11:32:52
Hello guys,I am trying to learn Resource Management on Solaris x86 and I got the error. Could anybody tip me the solution.Here is the log what I did:============================[sun1]# projects -l project1project1projid : 100comment: "My test project"users : user2groups : (none)attribs: ...

Launching SunPlex in browser wants to download BIN file

657 byte By jackpala at 2007-11-27 11:34:25
I've had this problem on several other Sun based browser products. Sun Managment Console does the same thing to me. Basically I've installed the cluster portion of the Java Enterprise Suite. I try to launch the admin console using. http://mynode:6789and the browser wants to download a BIN file. ...

Capture kernel stack if a function is called from a specific function

1049 byte By Raminskia at 2007-11-27 11:34:34
Hi all,I've tried hunting for examples of this to no avail. I've also purchased the Solaris Performance and Tools book but havn't found what I want there either :(What i'm after is a specific way of obtaining a kernel stack (possible args, but stack would do fine to start with as I'm sure ...

Intermittent network freezes

1590 byte By ITOa at 2007-11-27 11:35:13
I have a Sun Fire x2200M2 with 11 zones. I currently have three interfaces configured.bge0 - Two public IPs and 11 private IPs (for the zones)bge1 - One public IP only used for access to ilom interfacenge0 - One private IP that is just a cross-over cable to another Sun Fire x2100 M2 server on a ...

run exe

200 byte By jiong_ronga at 2007-11-27 11:35:30
<p>hi, I am newly to solaris, i just install solaris OS from DVD, anyone can tell me how to run a exe file on Solaris? because many application or driver need me to run exe file to run or install.</p>

Service Management Facility (SMF) - Service Won't Go Online

3444 byte By calmgreena at 2007-11-27 11:35:40
Hello All,I am new to this forum, but getting rather frustrated and thought I'd see if any of you could point me in the right direction.I have just loaded Solaris 10 on my local workstation and I'm trying to get it set up. I have a simple script that I did have set up in my Solaris 9 inittab file ...

Solaris & DHCP question...

482 byte By amb_lewa at 2007-11-27 11:36:10
Hi All:I've been away from Solaris for a while, so sorry for the dumb question...I installed Solaris on an x86 box, configuring it to use DHCP. (SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc)The host name is coming up "unknown". Is there any way to set the host name on the DHCP interface? ...

set up ipmp after scinstall

476 byte By grsiepkaa at 2007-11-27 11:36:15
Hi, yes I know what you are thinking, you should definitely set up IPMP before doing the cluster install. But, what if you didn't. SC3.2 and Solaris 10 06/06I just set up a single interface group on each node, but scstat does not show IPMP groups set up, it actually looks like this:-- IPMP Groups ...

How to expand a root partition

952 byte By vctrmariana at 2007-11-27 11:39:01
Hi,I want to expand my root partition which is extremely small (4Gb). I installed some programs and I am almost full. The home directory is far to large for my needs (92Gb). What would be the simplest way to do this. I am quite new in Solaris. Or do I have another method to install new programs ...

How to start a service controlled by SMF automatically when machine reboots

1653 byte By Jie_Liua at 2007-11-27 11:39:37
Hi all,I installed solaris 10 on a machine. After that, I installed the SMC 3.6.1(Sun Management Center) on the machine.Then I started all the SMC server services, but I did not start the SMC agent.arthur:/var/svc/manifest/application/management <123> (root) # svcs -a | grep sunmc online ...

Has anyone successfully install the driver of the Marvell 88E8038

112 byte By sweetraya at 2007-11-27 11:40:17
<p>Hi everyone</p><p>I can't install the driver,which the system notes me that:the driver havn't attached.</p>

CPU usage in top monitor

930 byte By M.Rabasta at 2007-11-27 11:40:24
I have a V880 machine with 6 CPU a 1200 Mhz.I'm running command: top -b -ocpu -s5 d5 5%idle is going down from 95 to 70/50/30%but I cannot see the processes which are consuming CPU !!!What should I do to get my CPU-consumers ?Can a get a summary of %user,%kernel for each top-5-process ?load ...

help to explain the truss output

451 byte By kdusta at 2007-11-27 11:41:44
the init process on a solaris box is using 20% CPU. I am not sure whatit is doing. truss output shows it is looping. Could someone explainthis section of the truss output:setcontext(0xFFBEF318)Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x00031D04siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x0000000CReceived signal ...

need help to configure CMI9880 audio card

480 byte By marsmusiciana at 2007-11-27 11:43:38
hello to everyone! :) I' ve installed Solaris 4 days ago and I really need help , I m confused! : S . .. where can I find driver for my integrated sound card CMI9880 e and first of all how can I install them since I did not manage to find in the terminal a command line like the .\config or the ...

Arithmetic comparison in Shell Script

519 byte By jagreenwooda at 2007-11-27 11:44:13
Hello,I wrote a script to check the version of Firefox and update it if its older the 2.0.0.5.It seems that -lt, -gt, or -eq does not look at anything after the first decimal. So, if my current version is 2.0.0.4, Firefox does not get updated.The portion of code that is giving me a problem is ...

CDE

220 byte By nyquista at 2007-11-27 11:49:59
<p>Hello everybody!</p><p>I have a question...maybe sounds silly..but here goes: i want to switch from Java CDE to the other one (i dont remember the name...i`m new to Unix :) ). How can i do that?</p><p>BR,</p><p>N.</p>

Binary Compatibility

154 byte By c@alina at 2007-11-27 11:50:05
<p>Hi all,</p><p>Can an application compiled on Solaris 10 run on Solaris 9? Or the binary compatibility is only upwards?</p><p>thank you,</p><p>calin</p>

Internet connection

363 byte By nyquista at 2007-11-27 11:50:46
Hello everybody,I have just installed Solaris 10, but i don`t know how to configure my internet connection...and i need it .badly...so here are a few details: i use a NIC, witch is installed and OK..and the connection is PPPoE based, through a router.My IP adress is dinamically allocated. But how ...

interconnect with a crossover cable (NIC bge1) does not work in Solaris 10

1017 byte By Rebecca730a at 2007-11-27 11:51:38
I connected two systems with a crossover cable for Oracle 10gR2 RAC like below commands.systemA> ifconfig bge1 plumbSystemA>ifconfig bge1 192.168.2.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 upsystemB> ifconfig bge1 plumbSystemB>ifconfig bge1 192.168.2.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 upThe I connected with a crossover ...

can someone pls explain me (networking, DNS)

248 byte By Alex_Sa at 2007-11-27 11:51:59
<p>hi guys,</p><p>can some1 pls explain me what is hostname in the following record:</p><p>mysite.com. IN SOA hostname.mysite.com. admin.mysite.com. (1; 3h; 1h; 1w; 1h)</p><p>is it the name of my network interface ?</p><p>many thanks</p><p>Alex</p>

sudo + pam + ldap

426 byte By afberendsena at 2007-11-27 11:53:16
Hello AllWe are in process to migrate to use LDAP.Right now I have an DSEE6.1 using sasl/digest-md5 as authentication mechanism.Sudo 1.6.8p12 is installed and *was* working until I moved all the local users to DS.When I try to sudo, it ask me three times a password and drop stating that the ...

Unqualified host name

705 byte By kyran55a at 2007-11-27 11:54:48
Hi AllI am Having V890 Server with Solaris 10 OS.In Dmesg showing the sendmail error.This is the error:Jul 26 22:04:56 ORACLE sendmail[24142]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] My unqualified host name (ORACLE) unknown; sleeping for retryJul 26 22:05:56 ORACLE sendmail[24142]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] unable to ...

Avoid Page Jumping

463 byte By leogilsa at 2007-11-27 11:54:53
Hello Genius,We ve written the coding in java swing for hotel billing projectwe ve done all the things. our billing size s 4''x4''after printout we tear off the paper bt giving nxt printthe page jumping upto 1.5'' then print we ve to avoid how to avoid page feeding we checked all printer ...

StarOffice 7 - Cannot be used

459 byte By Sharifa at 2007-11-27 11:56:45
Dear Friends,I have been trying to use StarOffice 7 that came with Solaris 10.The first time I attempted to use, the system asks me to install however, unfortunately I have difficulty installing it. On trying to install, I was getting the "something file" can not be found and then there was options ...

ALOM password reset

1283 byte By michael_geddesa at 2007-11-27 11:57:57
I was shipped a V240 from another office. I don't have the root password or the ALOM password. I figured there would be simple documentation from Sun on resetting the ALOM password so I could get to the ok prompt to reboot the computer. Unfortunately most of the ALOM documentation indicates ...

Project Janus - Where and How ?

275 byte By Zoltar1976a at 2007-11-27 11:59:02
<p>Hi</p><p>I've tried searching the forum about "Project Janus" for running linux apps</p><p>under Solaris but i found only posts from 2004 year.</p><p>So, what's going on with this project and is it ready yet or am i missing</p><p>something ?</p><p>Thanks in advance.</p>

Recovering from interrupted patch

557 byte By Mike_McManusa at 2007-11-27 11:59:22
I have a slight problem which stems from our patch bundle taking a long time per patch at some points (thus tripping the timeout on our console terminal server) and the resulting lack of feedback. Thinking the patch process had hung, I halted and rebooted the server so as not to run over my ...

Why are C/C++ development packages not installed on Solaris 10

405 byte By leonardya at 2007-11-27 11:59:29
I've just installed Solaris 10 x86 1106 with softwares on all five CDs installed. But there's no C++ packages on the system. No make, g++, cc etc. This is wired because I choose "Entrire" for software group during installation. Could someone tell me how to install C/C++ software development ...