When I run top command on my unix machine (SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880) , it shows the idle time as 1.0% (and keeps changing in the range between 1 and 2%).But when I run mpstat command the idle time for each processor is shown as 40 plus . Why is there such a huge ...

I want to add a user with a previlege that root has. The OS is Solaris 10 on x86 platform. Could some body please help me ? And how do i do this from command line and aswell as from GUI ?Appreciate for help.thanksravi

I did a backup test, found the HP DAT72 Tape Drive just can backup 36GB data. The transfer rate about 3MB/s, so it looks like no harware compressd, but I don't know how to enable it, could anyone please tell me? Thanks in advance.

Hello Guys,Have anyone done installation of solaris 10 on IBM's x3650 machine. If so please tell me if they have faced any problems, what you have done to overcome it? Thanks in advance..Regards,Satish

Hi1. How to check that all the daemons for environmental monitoring and control are running?Thanks in Advance

Hi,I would like to know if it's mandatory that users accounts stored on the NIS master must have a shell assigned in order to be able to access to the application components. The users need to access to applications not to the operating system.Best Regards,Bernardo

I have Solairs 10 6/06. I am trying to print to a network attached HP 5M printer.I have tried lpadmin and cups and cannot get either to work.I followed the instructions in the sun handbook for printing to the HP. # svcs -a | grep printonline Sep_01svc:/application/print/cleanup:defaultonline ...

I want to overrride DNS and assign a host and IP in /etc/hosts. Normally with "hosts dns" in the hosts and ipnodes lines of nsswitch.conf I would expect that adding the entry to /etc/hosts and /etc/ipnodes would override DNS. This is not the case in Sol 10.For simplicity's sake I linked ...

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Hi All Is there any way to make an Administrative Console without using Terminal Concentrator. I want to configure a 2 node cluster.Thanks

(NOTE: Posted in Storage forum, got no responses; that must be for users of the big storage hardware, thus wrong for this question. So re-try here:)My need: Off-line backup.My system: Sun workstation, two other workstations on LAN, none have mass-storage device. Largest-capacity device is ...

How to delete my own Posts from forum permantly. Please tell me how to do. please help me..its urgent.!!!

Our auditors want to see the copyright file or a URL for the OpenSSL Sun supplies. Where is this information stored or is it on the web site somewhere.Thanks in advance for your help!

I can rsh as root from one system to another without issue. Filesystemkbytesusedavail capacity Mounted on/proc 0000%/proc/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0101554236316 9182944%//dev/dsk/c0t0d0s61114830 716309 34278068%/usrfd 0000%/dev/fd/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s110155427071 9475391%/var/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s71294529121 ...

Does anyone know of a tool to mine a Solaris audit file(s)? I know about the commands auditreduce and praudit. I was interested in more of integrated tool/gui to look through the files.

Where is the best place to set the tcp_keepalive_interval so that when the system reboots it set again.Can it be set in /etc/system? Should I add another startup script?Should I modify an existing startup script? What is the best practice on setting network parameters? Anyone have any thoughts? ...

I've set up basic public key sharing, with no passphrases, to test automated ssh logins to remote servers. That works fine. When I login, the commands I use are recorded in my .sh_history file. However, when I perform the ssh login with the commands bound to ssh [eg. ssh host1 ls /dev ] the ...

Hi,I have a shell script which is to perform a check if particular type of files exists in a directory. The files come in the form ...

Is it considered a Best Practice to allow scripts (for the point in question, it is a cfengine "rule") to constantly check (about every 3 min.) a third party server (Blastwave) for updated software and to download and install updates without any human interaction?Solaris Patch Management: ...

We need to sync 10TB of data from one North American coast to the other.Our tenative plans are to sneakernet the data and then use some form of sync to catch up the delta.Aside from bandwidth constraints, we found that rsync quickly craps out with large numbers of files.What tools have you used ...

hi,I'm running solaris 10 (Generic_118833_17) on a Sun Fire V240. I was able to connect using putty to this server via ssh. When I tried this morning I received "server unexpectedly terminal the connection" message from my machine.I tried to do "svcadm restart ssh" on the server console but to ...

I'm new to Unix admin, In my work place I need to configure a local printer to Unix server. I was told that when they had win98, they accessed some application in Unix through emulation software and the local printer is worked. Now they got a W2K PC and can able to access the application and ...

Q: How can I add a filesystem to an existing zone?3. Export the device associated with the disk partition to the non-global zone, create the filesystem in the non-global zone and mount it (has potential security issues)To my understanding, the security issue is to associate SCSI devices to the ...

Hello,After using the clre -u -s [dir-name] command line entry it still does not work.Am I missing something?-tx

Hi I have SunFire e450 machine and want to install Samba. I am trying this for the first time and I have downloaded samba-latest.tar.gz and when I cd /u01/solaris_patches/samba-3.0.23d/source./configureSAMBA VERSION: 3.0.23dchecking for -fPIE...checking for gcc... nochecking for cc... ...

Hi,appreciate if someone could advise what exactly these daemons for.Can I terminate it, what is the impact.Thank you.File: /etc/inetd.conf=====================## Solstice system and network administration class agent server#100232/10tlirpc/udp wait root ...

Can you change the size of an existing slice? I need to change partition 5 from 4.00GB to 8.00GB. Partition 6 is not in the vfstab file.Disk 0: Partition 6, Filesystem: /u02partition> printCurrent partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 24620 + 2 (reserved ...

I have SE3000 with 3 hme controller. Solaris 9. local-mac-address? in bootprom seted to "true". All hme controller have the same MAC address like hostid. I tryed to boot from cd - result the same. What can be the reason? How I can change it? Except use ifconfig

Hello.I was wondering how people feel about completely disabling root logins?To do so, I'm thinking I would edit /etc/passwd, and put /bin/false, or something comparable, as the default shell for root.The goal is to always require sys admins to log in as themselves, including at the console, for ...

hii am new solaris system admin i have small queryi have both sparc and x86 box with solaris installed . i just want to know what is the difrrence with these twoAdministration side any diffrence .Given below are my question.1. about security level2 perfomence ( why sparc is more performence than ...

Hi I am new in Solaris could you please tell me what is the full form of SPARC and what is the architecture

I have been applying a jass lockdown previously used on Solaris, update 2, SPARC, to Solaria 10 update 3 x86.Post jass-execute I find packages that would normally install and import an xml service manifest can only install the the xml. I must rund a svccfg import manually post install.I can't ...

hello,I want to allocate unallocated space to solaris partitions, but it is not visible.how can i do this?

dear all,I have a Solaris 9 machine. I configured NFS in the server. But, While shutting down the Solaris server with "shutdown -i5 -g0 -y" thesystem start to shutdown but stops at "automountd not running,retrying". I tried with stopping the NFS server. But it didn't work. If anybody has the ...

This patch corrects a vulnerability with Xsun server among other things. The install instructions say it requires a reboot. After application on a test server we just restarted the Xsun server and have observed no ill effects from not having rebooted. We are dealing with a large number of ...

What is the recommended policy for saving core files on JASS hardened and non-hardened Solaris servers? We currently have all servers configured to save all core files in /var/core, only some of the servers are security hardened. What are the security implications, if any, for allowing core ...

I am trying to set up a new environment with multiple domains and databases and would like to find some advice/documentation on best practices for how to architect this environment. It seems we have three basic choices:1-multiple domains running on one app server on one machine.2-multiple app ...

Can anyone give me some directions of installing Log Surfer on solaris 10. Any pointers to web site will be good enough. I will really appreciate your quick responseThanks

I have to find the no. of cores in the processor, like is it a single core or dual core processor, psrinfo does not give this info. Is there any other command that will give this information?Thanks

Any body has a procedure to install samba on Sun Sparc system?

Distinguished Colleagues,I basically need a way to restrict a group of users' logins so thatthey can't get to the shell when they log in. I only want them to run oneapp instead. Previously, this was achieved by putting a while-loop in.profile that would run one of a couple allowed programs ...

Some time ago I used Live Upgrade to update a Solaris 9 4/04 V490 to Solaris 10 6/06. The internal disks (2 146GB) are mirrored using SVM. I used a couple of extra slices for the upgrade (/ & /var). I need to setup a new filesystem for an Oracle grid control install. I need to to reallocate ...

I need delegate "Management User" permissions from superuser to other user in OS Solaris.What steps i need following for it?What i need seting up for it?RUN COMMANDS IN SHELLS:--SunOS 5.9login: bvc0009Password:Last login: Mon Feb 19 09:43:26 from newcomerbvc0009@pw850-2$ pfexec /usr/bin/passwd ...

I installed the DST patch just released 109809-06, and it's various dependency patches. When I reboot and run zdump, I still get the April and October dates for DST in 2007.I would have expected to see the March and November dates as I do on my HPUX machines and Linux boxes.I have moved aside ...

Running the Solaris Security Toolkit 4.2.0 with the default configuration:jass-execute -d secure.driverInstalls the /etc/init.d/nddconfig and /etc/rc2.d/S70nddconfig scripts but these do not appear to execute because the svc:/milestone/multi-user:default service is disabled.Can anyone tell me ...

Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot required.How do I do this in SUN, solaris 10 mostly, although 8/9 steps are helpful too. ...

Dear All , I have problem on start cups on solaris 10 : I am install from solaris companion and follow guide : http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xmlwhen i am start the cups i got error message "# /etc/init.d/cups startcupsd: Child exited with status 125!cups: unable ...

Hi All,Can anyone please guide how to make diskless client boot from network from a solaris x86 server. Especially, i want to know what goes into /tftpboot directory, what should be exported by NFS. Also I want to use GRUB for this purpose. Moreover, I dont want to specify MAC address of client ...

Controversy abounds.Some say the best layout is to put everything under / if so, will a Solaris 10 server crash if / fills up? Will Linux servers crash under the same circumstance?Others say break out /usr, /var/, and /opt.Then there's the question of which slices and cylinders to use for ...

I'm trying to install a usb converter to serial hardware. I want use a modem, but I obtain de next message in /var/adm/message:Nov 7 18:42:41 solaris10 usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb403,6001) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: device@2, usb_mid4 at bus ...