I am new to sun admin.Recently i created the user Oracle and from then on if i login as Oracle user and type any command it says not found. The only command i can type to get result is pwd.I am trying this in Sun Ultra20 workstation. Can any one say where i did wrong?thanks for your time! ...

Hello,I am running Solaris 9/05 on a low cost Celeron-based PC. Recently I have purchased a Sil 3112 SATA controller and two SATA drives to work with it.When I booted Solaris it recognized the SATA controller but the `format` command did not see any of the 2 drives connected to it. What was I ...

am in the process if installing Solaris 10 on the Intel platfrom. I downloaded all 4 files sol-10-GA-x86-v[1-4]-iso.iso and burned them onto CDs. The first CD worked fine and most of the OS is installed. Then I got prompted for the second CD. when the CD was inserted, I got the ...

When i am using commands on the command line, it is very difficult to type in all the commands again and again. There should be way to reuse the earlier used commands, by using up arrow, down arrow or tabsHow to enable it?I am using solaris version 5.10.

How can a non-root user mount a usb flash device?As root, the device is mounted as:mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1tod0s2:c /mntThe vfstab entry for this is as follows:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2:c /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 /flash pcfs 2 no -This is running Solaris 8 on a SunBlade150 ...

Hi, I have the feeling that I might ask a stupid question but... Ok, I downloaded the DVD images. I have the images each of them on a zip file because that's how you get them. Now I'm supposed to burn the image into the DVD, but the image is split in 5 parts. So, how do I get the 5 parts ...

Hi,I have been Googling all evening to try and find a solution to this, but here is the problem:I have a PC built around an Asus P4C800-E system board, and I have Solaris 10 x86 01/2006 installed. I would like to get the Ethernet interface (Intel adaptor, running on a CSA bus) up and running - ...

Solaris 3/05 loaded just fine, recently patch 118844-21 installed GRUB as a bootloader, replacing the one that Sol 10 3/05 installed. Now the machine does not complete a boot. It loads the copyright notice and then hangs. Before this patch my laptop was quite happy. What gives?

Hi,I just tried installing oracle 10g(10.2.0.1) on my new machine(Sun solaris 10 x86) Intel 915 GAG with 512 RAM and 120GB SATA drive.After I started running ./runInstaller the following message came on console......Starting Oracle Universal Installer...Checking installer ...

To login as different user every time i am rebooting the system, and i know i am doing it wrong.Then how do i logout and login as another user?i can su and do, other that this do we have any commands to do this?

Hello all,I've downloaded and burned the Solaris 10 Software Companion CD ISO twice. Solaris 10 installer tells me it is the incorrect version - but there is only one version available.Has anyone else had this problem?Is there a resolution?Thank you.

The graphic and sound were correctly detected and works flawlessly. However, the network doesnt work. Any hints? I can not plumb the card. If I "ifconfig -a" then it printslo=: flags=20001...inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000There is no other network device or anything. I have also tried ...

I've seen other postings on this, but no answers. I feel like I've read one hundred articles but to no avail.I am trying to install Sol-10 onto a PC (Compaq Deskpro PIII with Intel 810 video card), and can't get the 'X' session to start. I've tried XSun, Xorg, agpgart, and nothing works. ...

I have a Latitude D600 (ATI mobility radeon 9000) and a CRT. Is it possible to have one large desktop spanning over both monitors? Ive read somewhere, that Solaris doesnt support that. Ive also read somewhere that Nvidia's driver does support dual screen. I have a desktop with 6200 AGP running ...

Weird, solaris 10 can't detect my amd atlhon 64 as being a 64 bit processor so it installs 32bit.

Hi, I am installing Solaris 10 on a W1100Z machine. Whenever I use the Solaris 10 installer, my PS2 keyboard is not working and GUI installation does not come up. The installation uses the command line. I can not continue installation because I can not use the keyboard. I also tried to install ...

Does anybody know if it is possible to replace linux on a laptop with solaris 10 and still have all the needed codecs for a full multimedia workstation?Is there good support for mp3, ogg, mpeg, avi, wma, mov and rm?Also are there any decent tools for audio cd ripping, burning cd's and dvd's ...

Hi AllRecently i bought Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.Already XP is instelled on that could somebody help me how to install solaris8 on that please.ThanksChitram

I am using SUN OS. My problem is we totally forget the root password for that machine. My question is there any option for us to retrieve the password back beside formatting the systems?Thank you

OK, I have Solaris 10 and Windows XP Home installed on the same hard drive. How do I make the boot loader (I think it's Grub) boot Windows automatically instead of Solaris?

Hi All,Could someone give me a solution for adding a new scsi device entry into the masterdb file for one of my Scsi card,during the installation,asX86 Solaris 10 is not able to recognise my SCSI adapter ASC--39320 (B). or the disk attached to it, .How does the system do a hardware ...

I need to check the connectivity of other sun systems in my network, in other words what is the windows equivalent for ping

Hi,we are running under Solaris 10 x86. Our system suddenly crashed a fewdays ago. Symptoms are quite bizarre.We found first that no ssh remote connection was possible. After areboot it was possible again for small amount of time to connect.1) All system commands complained exhibiting a ...

I am bit confused by my o/s whether it is 32/64 bit o/s.I could do isainfo -v - but this gives the capability of my system but not what is installed.As a work around to this i did $ file /sbin/init- says ELF 32 bit executableCan i take this as my o/s is configured for 32 bit.Is there any other ...

Hello all.I download last version from sun.com, unzip iso's and burn their to cd's.When i try to load (on different machines) from first cd i receive this errors:<div class="pre"><pre>/kernel/fs/specfs: undefined symbol '' /kernel/fs/specfs: undefined symbol '' ... several ...

I have created user Oracle in remote sun server and when i try connect and login as Oracle user using the CDE login screen, it does not allow me to login?whereas i could do it as root user. I tried using putty it connects as Oracle user. I need the gui interface to install Oracle.Help me out, ...

I抦 installing solaris 9.0 on the compaq presario series and I抦 getting some errors while doing the install such as ERROR : Could not create fdisk partition tableERROR : Could not label disksERROR : could not update disks with new configuration Along with some warnings likeWARNING: ...

while inastalling on x11 i am getting error mesg host sendmail " 717 : mu unqualified hostname abc unknown sleeping for retry host sendmail "717 unable qualified my own domain name --using atwhat is this error and what have to do

Hello, I downloaded Solaris express and managed to get it it all onto a dvd for installation last night. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jspI tried installing it today and found it to be not very helpful, I had 3 goes at it, each time deleting the partition and starting ...

Having been a Solaris sysadmin for quite some time in my professional environment but playing with mostly Linux at home, I am now THRILLED to be able to download Solaris 10 to install on a system at home. For now I'm just installing the x86 version on some old hardware (PII/500MHz) but when ...

Previously in Solaris 9 when using DHCP with a MS DHCP server I could modify /etc/init.d/network to make the system show it's hostname instead of unkown. This file is missing with Solaris 10 and my console name is unknown.The proper system name is registering with the DHCP server and DNS.How ...

I am using LDAP to mount remote folders in /a, /u, and /g. With Solaris 9 root can access all of them without issue. WIth Solaris 10 this appears to be really hit and miss.The Permissions are at least 555 with root as owner, with SOlaris 10 I get access denied.

The man page for kdc.conf and the online doc. both say that "the unbundled Strong Cryptographic packages must be installed for the aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96:normal enctype to be available for Kerberos." Does anyone know where I can find these packages for Solaris 10? I found some for Solaris 9 ...

Hi,According to the release notes in Solaris 10 Beta 7, it statesthat all Sun Ultra AX hardware platforms are no longer supported. Does this mean that all Sun MicroElectronicsAXi (Ultra IIi) CPU-based computers are also end-of-lifed?Thanks,Henry

Hi, I have installed solaris 10 x86 on my laptop. Every thing was fine untill I tiried to start java desktop. Actually, any gnome based application produces illegal hardware instruction and core dump.My machine iz PIII 700 Mhz, 512 Mb RAM, Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook Any idea?Thanks, Kofeman ...

Solaris 10 b69I use LDAP as Naming Service (DS5.1).All works fine, but only root can do "su" if another user want to su he gets the error "su: Unknown id: test". The user "test" can login to the system.best regards, arno

can we import & deport zfs storage pool like use veritas volume disk group.

I ditched my perfectly running 5.9 system (actually formatted it after backing up user data) for s10_69 because I thought that was the final release.I'm having tons of problems with it. I'm wondering why Solaris 10 is advertised on the Sun product page (with a link to the download) if it's ...

Downloaded Solaris 10, burned to CD, disc at once/96 and the CD was not recognised. Erased/burned disc at once, the install process started and continued about half way then froze as though caught in a loop. I attempted re-installing but it was a repeat performance!

I recently visited a friend of mine who installed Solaris 10, and even if it's not the final version it comes ready for the enterprise, very promissing with outstanding security.

OK, if this is not the right place to post this just point me in the right direction. I'm trying here because this fails on Solaris 10 b69 using the embedded SJSAS, but works fine on a SJSAS PE8 install everywhere else.Scenario:- Created a new application server domain using the asadmin ...

I have a s10_b69 related NIS problem for Jumpstart installation: the client doesn't ypbind to the local NIS slave server, and it prompts for user intervention on the console. Therefore, the automatic install becomes an interactice one. What might be wrong?The sysidcfg file is okay, as it works ...

Hi ,I should prepare myself for a presentation about solaris OS .can some here help me find some PowerPoint or pdf usefull for presentation ?is there any ready for use one?anothe question which i have is :Does Solaris 10 has some Features which other OS has not?[/b ...

Just for your information. http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.htmlMichael

Apparently I'm the only one with this problem. But I've reinstalled 8 times and it is the same every time. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Basically after installing Solaris I can no longer mount anything. This is solaris 10 SX latest version downloaded. It boots up fine and mounts the local ...

SMC 2.1 fails to start on sparc version of s10_63. I installed it on two different sparc servers with the same message: Server Not Running. I install s10_63 on x86 and it works.

Hello,I got all 5 big files - a distiributive - for Solaris 10, however should i unzip them and then copy to 5 cds or just copy the *.iso files to 5 cds?

Hello,I'm trying to jumpstart install Solaris 10 x86 b72.My hw: Athlon XP 800mhz, 120gb Hitachi deskstar, etc.The following message appears when creating the '/' filesystem:"Creating / (c0d0s0)""Please file a ***BUG*** for driver ata, dma_*_bind() will return a failure.sgllen 17, cookie ...

I'm getting the following error install IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3 on s10_63:Dec 7 11:38:42 junior pkginfo[20679]: [ID 160324 user.error] libpkcs11: Could not initialize /usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so. See cryptoadm(1m). Skipping this plug-in. Error: 0x00000006

Trying to find the Strong Crypto packages for build 72. Anyone know the URL? I have beta 6 and beta 7, but not build 72 (I'm guessing it's aka "beta 8" ? ... :-)