Recent update: 2008-5-9

Patch clusters

292 byte By wm9la6pr at 2008-3-5
I see separate clusters on the recommended ant security website for solaris 8 (regular and J2SE) If I'm runnung Java2E should I still apply both clusters or just the cluster for J2SE. If I need to install both, which order should they be installed in?Thanks, Sean Jaehne

ftp transfer data issue

235 byte By vlsi at 2008-2-27
Hi,I got the message 'Netout: Connection reset by peer, Connection closed by remote host' when I was trying to transfer data to a Solaris OS 8 machine. Please advise.Any help would be much appreciated.vlsi

Users are not able to login

402 byte By su_nila at 2008-2-24
HI,I m able to login as root and it is working fine but if i login through a normal user ,it is logging and after sometime (few seconds) displays the desktop screen and comes back to the login screen.I have created a new user and tried to login the same probelm exist.Please help me out to solve ...

find command error

251 byte By paulhulley at 2008-2-20
When I run the find command as root in root I get the following error:find: cannot open /: I/O errorI think this may be related to a previous post and I may have an unhealthy server. I've run fsck in single user mode to no avail.

WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before use

111 byte By steven_yya at 2008-2-15
WARNING: se_hdlc: clone device must be attached before usewhat cause above messages in system log

How can I know that SRS agent still sent data to SRS server.

331 byte By Kwan at 2008-2-14
1. How can I know, SRS Agent still update and sent data to SRS server ? Some time this machine was problem and must re-install OS or the host name was change but in SRS web page still show this machine and availability is 100 % 2. How often that SRS Agent update data to SRS Server ? ...

JVM hangs then resumes

11369 byte By JNovice.classa at 2008-2-13
Hello,I am running a java process standalone (no EJB container / servlet container or anything), just a standalone JVM. The process is run via a shell script whcih executes it in the background then exits (leaving JAVA running). The java process stays up between 03:00 and 23:00 then is shut down by ...

Recovering data from a corrupt HD

735 byte By tunelera at 2008-2-8
Hi all,I hava w WD HD which woke up ill.I did:[Stop]+[A]boot -sfsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 ... ... ...WARNING: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0 (dad0):Uncorrectable data Error: Block ... ... ...... Command: 0xc8 Error: 0x40 Status: 0x51 ... ......BAD MODE 0170000 I=2263BAD MODE: MAKE IT A FILE? ...# fsck ...

Modyfing installed Software Cluster?

436 byte By dts_herforda at 2008-2-7
Hello,we've recently updated our Support-Sun to Solaris 10. Due to a mistake the machine was installed with End User Support, but Developer Support was requested. Since we are not able to reinstall the machine (Of course it's a productive system) we are looking for a solution to modify the ...

Creating an image

464 byte By young02a at 2008-2-6
I want to create an image/backup of everything listed when doing a df on my system as well as all of my metadevices and vfstab configuration on my Solaris 10 install. I have been looking at using dd and/or fssnap, but am not exactly sure how to use them. Can someone provide some insight on what ...

user passwd

293 byte By thbaiga at 2008-2-5
Hello,I am using solaris 10 and when i create new user I have to pass password that must start with number e.g 12solaris , it is not accepting solaris12 as password as displaying password must be alphanumeric.how can I cure this problemMessage was edited by: thbaig

luupgrade -t does not understand patches with a .jar extension?

1517 byte By t1mka at 2008-2-4
Hello, The man pages for luupgrade reads like the below should work, but the command errors out. Does luupgade work with .jar patches? Command and ERROR is below. Along with list of patches I am trying to install.epicbuild:/u1> luupgrade -t -n vx-rootdg02 -s /u1/SunPatches 'cat ...

mount CD-Rom

227 byte By Mrjasa at 2008-2-4
sun solaris 5.5.1 don't know why, but i cant find the CD-rom drive, i check under /dev/rmt , but no thing there. how can i check that SCSI of CD rom drive, if i found it how can mount it to used it.

How to find a patch for a desired library?

786 byte By unitysuna at 2008-1-29
Hello,finding a certain library for Solaris applications seems to me not straightforward.For example: ldd emacslibtiff.so.3 => (file not found)libjpeg.so.62 => (file not found)libpng.so.3 => (file not found)The problem is that i dont see the conection of these libraries to their patch ...

simple question about backups

664 byte By r0k3ta at 2008-1-27
Hi there, I just took over a really old netra box that is still in use. I have these intructions that tell me to log on and do the following$at 2300>sh backupfile<CONTROL> DThe file called backupfile is just a shell script. It looks like thistar cvbf 96 /dev/rmt/0 /export /usr2 /bin ...

Revoving Xterm from the ADD ITEM TO MENU?

202 byte By andy0200a at 2008-1-25
Now I cannot remove the Xterm from the Workspace Menu. How can I do that? I even deleted it from the Customize Workspace Menu and its still there in the menu.How can I achieve this please?

Live Upgrade - "merged" keyword gone?

1051 byte By ceri_daviesa at 2008-1-25
I'm trying to get an alternative boot environment created on Solaris 10,11/06, and am having problems with the "merged" keyword.I want to create a new BE on c0t0d0s5, and merge / and /usr onto it.Here's what I think will do that:# lucreate -n be2 -c be1 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5:ufs -m ...

X4500, Solaris, ZFS and RAID question

698 byte By itaymena at 2008-1-13
Hi,Scenario:Suppose I have an X4500 running with Solaris and ZFS . I configured RAID5 configuration with the ZFS tools. The RAID is working fine, but after x months/years I need to make a new Solaris installation from scratch on the X4500 machine.Will my ZFS data located in the RAID be in ...

DST Patches

323 byte By wlha at 2008-1-12
I have successfully applied the 113225-07 timezone patch.What would be the effect of not applying the libc patch 112874-37 which requires patch 112233-12?If anybody has applied patch 112233-12, how long did it take?We have a SunBlade 2000 running Solaris 9.Bill HarrellSavannah, ...

Anyone seen this?

385 byte By rsoellnera at 2008-1-12
smpatch analyzeException in thread "Thread-12" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zeroat com.sun.patchpro.plugins.sunos.pkg.SunOSBaseDataExtension.incrementProgress(Sun OSBaseDataExtension.java:199)at com.sun.patchpro.plugins.sunos.pkg.SunOSBaseDataExtension.run(SunOSBaseDataExte ...

showrev -p segmenation fault

195 byte By CCheethama at 2008-1-10
After recent patch updates via Update Manager, showrev -p results in a segmentation fault. As a result (presumed), cannot run Update Manager or smpatch. Any ideas on how to recover?

snmp: rsUserProcessTime, rsNiceModeTime, rsSystemProcessTime are frozen?

2181 byte By Schwana at 2008-1-9
Hi,i query those snmp oids with cacti, but the values are somehow frozen:cat cacti.log | grep 192.168.6.12 | grep ': rs'01/23/2007 11:00:07 AM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[34] DS[355] SNMP: v2: solaris10, dsname: rsUserProcessTime, oid: .1.3.6.1.4.1.42.3.13.1.0, value: 1404401/23/2007 11:00:07 AM ...

could not able to boot system .....

477 byte By santhosh@manipal.neta at 2008-1-9
I purchased one old sun altra enterprise 450 but I could able to boot system, because it does not have any display card or proper console calbe to watch whats going on. When I connect to power supply turn key to ON possion, server ON LED glows and fan starts. I tried to connect server using ...

solstice disksuite

292 byte By vijaysysa at 2008-1-8
Hi Friends,I started a new work of managing database and backup servers which are running in solaris. Please tell me, through which command i will know like what type of raid is configured in solaris 8 machines using disksuite software......thanks & regardsVJ.

BIND 9 - max request per second

294 byte By trungdtbka at 2008-1-8
I use BIND 9 on Solaris 9, hardware: SunFire V280R, CPU 1.2GHz, 2x73GB HDD, 4xFE interfacesNow, I see on our FW, there are 3154 session request to DNS, and CPU use by BIND 9 is 98%. So, 3154 is very highI don't know how many request my DNS can servicePlease help me

Q4 OS patch and disk utilization spikes

416 byte By ClintBa at 2008-1-8
Anyone else have issue with the latest patches for Sun 5.8 and disk utilization spikes. Since we installed the latest OS patch our disk utilization has shot up substantially. Wondering if theirs a fix patch or looking at possibly backing out last patch. Anyone have same experience ?5.8 ...

recreate device name persistent database

623 byte By tecnicih3g at 2008-1-7
hi guys,i have 2 sun fire v440 with 2 emulex hba each, installed on the same slots(slot 4 and 5 on both servers).i'm using lpfc (non-leadville) drivers and i see that LUN are reachable fromc3 c4 on first server and from c3 c6 on second server.i think this can due to some mistakes during lpfc ...

apply a patch which is a diff file

313 byte By abcde-tje at 2008-1-3
Hi AllI although I know how to keep a unix system up and running I actually don't know how to apply the patch for gzip :(Its a diff file. Can someone give me the right syntax or point me to the documentation (I looked around at docs.sun.com but didn't find it)Thanks a ...

syslogd overflow - 110945-08 does NOT help!

455 byte By 110945-08 at 2008-1-2
hello,I have major problem with the known syslogd overflow that is supposed to be fixed with patch # 110945-08 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collectio ns&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=110945&toDocument=yesI have just finished patch-up this ...

Repair mirror

223 byte By dama3j at 2008-1-1
I am new to Solaris Volume Manager and need some help. I have a raid 1 and both submirrors have state "Needs maintenance", how can I repair the mirror? I have invoked "metasync", but it does not work.Thank you

Strange cron problem

862 byte By sunsysadm2003 at 2007-12-30
I have 2 servers I will call "server A" and "server B". Server A has an application account user on it that rsyncs it's scripts and configuration files to Server B. Server B is acting as a failover server for Server A.We recently renamed Server B to Server A and Server A to Server B to test ...

How to stop uptime in /var/adm/messages ?

1162 byte By parvez_nawaz at 2007-12-30
Dear all,Uptime and /var/adm/messages shows same day count.Is it normal routine or something bad?If it is normal then how to stop this message from /var/adm/message ?ftpuser@sdp17a>uptime11:08am up 127 day(s), 20:35, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.38, 0.39ftpuser@sdp17a>cat ...

User invisible to "last" command

414 byte By jprigot at 2007-12-27
We have a user whose name never shows up in the output from "last". The users use NX to log onto the machine, and she's the only one who doesn't show. I tried clearing out utmpx and wtmpx by cat'ing /dev/null to them, but the situation hasn't changed. We are using Solaris 8 with CDE ...

SUN V250 BOOT problem

840 byte By sunpower at 2007-12-26
Dear friendsI have a SUN 250 machineWhen i place console it showes following output CPU 0000.0000.0000.0000 AFSR 0010.0002.0000.0147 PRIV CEAFAR 0000.0003.3da3.c030 Sun Fire V250, No KeyboardCopyright 1998-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.OpenBoot 4.11.4, 2048 MB memory ...

How to change the server time?

87 byte By shankie at 2007-12-25
Can some one guide me how to change the server time in Solaris 10.thanks!

about telnet connections in Ultra Enterprise 1

1429 byte By vaibhavp_it at 2007-12-24
DEAR ALL,I M RUNNING SOLARIS OS ON ULTRA ENTERPSIE 1 SERVERS. BUT WHEN NO OF CONNETIONS OF TELNET SESSION IS GONE TO MORE THEN 46 IT IS UNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE TELNET. HAVING THE SAME OS ULTRA ENTERPRISE 250 SERVERS IS ABLE TO SUPPORT MORE THEN 50 CONNECTIONS IS THERE ANY WAY THAT I CAN ...

srsuser changes

629 byte By johnmsucpe at 2007-12-22
I am looking for a little information about the srsuser. It seems that this is taken directly from the owner of the srsproxy process. Here is my problem. I have created the UID 110 for my srsuser. When NetConnect is installed it starts srsproxy with the owner as my srsuser account (srsadmin). ...

Can all systems be transferred from one company to another company?

219 byte By at 2007-12-21
Our company changed the name a few weeks ago. Is there a possibility to transfer all systems with their collected information from the old to the new company? If yes, how can I do this?

.free taking up space

297 byte By dthree at 2007-12-20
Hello, We have a system with a .free file size of 104299008. I've read elsewhere that this file should only be 20Mb. Because of this our filesystem is over 90%. What should I check to correct this? Thanks, D3

srsadm: config_pvr_exec: cannot open /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0: No such file or directory

980 byte By aderidd at 2007-12-19
When run from cron, the following command: <i>/opt/SUNWsrsep/bin/eras_pvr_runner eras_pvr 003.000.004 IM-NC_ENG-eras_pvr /tmp/eras_pvr 3348000 application/x-gtar </i> gives the error message : " srsadm: [ID 702911 daemon.error] PROVIDER RUNNER WARNING: ...

DOMAIN UNKOWN for clients

552 byte By rmaiello at 2007-12-19
Whenever we receive email notification from an SRS NetConnect client the domain listed in the email is always unkown: Multiple Threshold Alarms on (darius.UNKNOWN.DOMAIN) I suppose SUN is trying to resolve our internal domain on internet? Is there somewhere we can set this on our ...

SunBlade150 stopped booting

459 byte By Nasir_sun77a at 2007-12-18
Hi there,I've 4 SunBlade150s which when powered on , all of them give 3 short beeps and does'nt come-up after that. I mean no power LED is lit and nothing appears on the screen. All of them have USB keyboard/Mice devices attached and I 've even tried by shifting the keyboard/mice cables as ...

difference usaged diskspace between 'du' and 'df'

1163 byte By SUNsupportforum at 2007-12-18
I'm running solaris8 .Now on multiple occasions we encountered a relative large (some time hugh) difference between the reported usaged disk space between df and du.for instance on a filesystem of 20G, du would give about 2G inuse and df, 19 G . df:avail in that case was 1 G.logging is ...

xsession

367 byte By Mrjasa at 2007-12-17
hi all,after i made a backup for the system, I couldn't login to multiuser mode.means that the welcome login windows not appear so no user name can access no passwd,only single user mode work.i find that system run well, and when i Take its environment from other PC, I found that it work 100% ...

syntax for multiple stoplist devices

490 byte By Keith at 2007-12-13
Hi I want to stop monitoring certain disk devices on my server. I know there is a file under /etc/opt/SUNWsrsvp called event_pvr_config.cfg. In this file there is a tag called event.device.stoplist. My question is what is the syntax for entering multiple devices? I tried putting multiple tags ...

srsxfer hanging after NetConnect Installation

734 byte By Anthony_Maslowskia at 2007-12-7
Installing the NetConnect 3.2.4 on a t1000 with Solaris 10uname -a "SunOS sunlight 5.10 Generic_125100-04 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000"I look to check that the srs services are running, and all there appears to be is a hung srsxfer that never completes.root@sunlight # ps -ef | grep srsroot ...

/etc/hosts...blank entries

771 byte By mehdi.nasiri at 2007-12-6
Hi, i m having one production and one its DR (machine is Sun Fire E6900). Now on the production machine today i checked the entries in the /etc/hosts file...totally blank, not even a single character inside it. Now i cann't restore it from the legato networker it says permissions denied. We ...

Solaris unexpected shutdown

566 byte By lexora at 2007-12-2
Hello!Hope to get any good recommendations that can help me find the reason of unexpected shutdown to standby mode of a web server on Solaris 10 on X4100 Opteron hardware.The following analysis was performed. - User login and commands history checked. - /var/adm/messages* checked - ...

How to delete my own Posts from forum permantly. Please tell me how to do.

95 byte By NYwgVf at 2007-12-1
How to delete my own Posts from forum permantly. Please tell me how to do.its urgent.!!!

DNS, named hands

226 byte By Steves_Place at 2007-11-30
DNS, solaris 8, running two years no issuesno-response to nslookup,Check DNS server "/usr/sbin/in.named" is running.9 min later nslookup starts working.This happens every hour, over and over.