HiWe have 24 CPU Domain with Solaris 10 U4We have a requirement where we need a non-global zone which shows total no of CPU's as 4 within this domain. It's application licensing requirement.Can somebody suggest is it possible and if somebody has tried it how can this be done.Thanks in ...

Hi I am just having problems finding Solaris 10 drivers for this PGX64 video card, can anyone point me in the right direction. I know how to get it installed, just can't find them Thanks Message was edited by: jesabin

Hi,Investigating some performance issues I saw the followingwhen analysing snooped traffic from a zone with ethereal:Checksum: 0x1710 [incorrect, should be 0x7cde (maybe caused by "TCP checksum offload"?)]How do I get rid of those, assuming that it plays part in ourperformance issues?uname ...

folks,I'm trying to setup a SVN server on Solaris 10 Sparc. I got everything installed and the SVN server up.Code:# svcs -a | grep subversiononline 18:31:25 svc:/network/subversion:defaultPort was set to 3691 using: svnserve --daemon --listen-port 3691 --root /export/home0/subversion and it ...

I am having a problem to bring in a EMC clariion disk to the zpool of my V245 server. I can newfs the powerpath device and create files, I just couldn't create a zpool using that. any idea? Btw, the disk is only 64GB, it shouldn't hit the zfs limitation.# zpool create emc emcpower0ainternal ...

hello dear,I have solaris 10 software DVD but it does't include companion cd, because of this I am not able to get desktop environment.I want to know from where on sun site I may able to download solaris 10 companion cd

Hello,A TapeStor Travan USB tape drive is reported to work on Solaris 10 x86as per HCL. But I don't have a clue how to make it work. The device is attached to mycomputer and shows up in a "cfgadm" command (USB0/2):# cfgadm -alAp_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantConditionusb0/1 ...

Hi AllDoes anyone know how to allow regular solaris 10 (sparc) users to access the console (Xwindows)? Right now, only ROOT can logon via Xwindows (console), but no one else.Thank you for you help!SB

I have Solaris 10 6/06 installed on x4100 box with 2 node clustering using Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05. I just want to know is there any latest patches available for the OS to prevent cluster related bugs. what are they? My kernel patch is 118855-19.any inputs needed. let me know.

Not sure where else to post this... Looking for something that runs well on Solaris. Any suggestions?Thanks!Brian

We are trying to send a plain text attachment through sendmail, but it is delivered as a inline message with all the headers in the body of the mail.I am using the following format for the mail header dataFile << "\nContent-Type: MULTIPART/mixed; ";dataFile << ...

My solaris 10 server is missing the pkgmap files for the packages. As a result, I can't build a non-global zone. Is there a way to recreate the pkgmap files?The OS on the Solaris 10 server was installed via jumpstart (initial install). However, the Jumpstart process used a Solaris 9 boot ...

I need to add some directories to root's PATH, so I've been reading up on /etc/default/login and /etc/default/su.I am at Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 100.When I su, my PATH becomes /usr/sbin:/usr/bin which kind of makes sense (except that the SUPATH= line in /etc/default/su is commented out, and ...

I've encountered this issue while installing Solaris 10 11/06 sparc on the following systems:Netra t1 100Netra 1400SunFire V880SunFire 280RI get a a panic on reboot after editing the /etc/vfstab to boot as mirrored devices. Havte noted the panic below. Did find this bug: ...

hi everyone,I'm totally new to Solaris. As an enthusiast, I wants to install Solaris 10 on my Win XP PC's 2nd Hard Drive(40GB, empty) from Solaris 10 DVD.I need help from how to format 2nd Hard Drive to how can I configure the PC so it asks me which OS to load every time.I will highly ...

Hi Allsomething i have noticed when rebboting a zone the zone id get incremented by one each time.Why?when you rebbot the whole machine the zone id then is reset back to 1?why?where is the zone id stored?

I have this issue with a sample program that I run on solaris 5.8 using vfork(). What I found is the memory of the main process is not shared with the vforked process. Any changes (stack/data) which is done in the child should get reflected in the parent. Using g++/gcc version 2.95.2Any help in ...

Hi!First than all, I have to admit than I'm a newbie on Solaris 10. Currently I'm running Solaris 10 x86 on a Virtual Machine (VMware Server) on a Windows Server 2003 Computer. I'm trying to access network services from Solaris 10 such as Telnet, FTP, and HTTP and I'm getting the following ...

Could someone point out please how to install the HBA on Solaris 8 and 9 ? Thanks.

I noticed in the 6/06 "What's new" notes, volfs/vold is now handled by SMF. However, after my upgrade, my console was spamming:Oct 9 05:56:11 server2 /usr/sbin/vold[1501]: [ID 159315 daemon.error] vol_init: already a daemon runningI'm assuming that vold had already been started by a legacy ...

HiWe seem to have seen that a hint file has been deleted somehow during reboot of a non-global server.Does anyone have an idea of how a hint file can go missing during reboot?

I'm looking for a command to list the network interfaces as they are discovered by the kernel without having to use "ifconfig" ( ifconfig -a [plumb|unplumb] )".The /var/sadm/system/log/sysidtool.log has the initial information that I need, but should another network card get added to the ...

Dear All , we have sun 4200 , we have try install OS from ILOM on 4200 use share dvd on windows client (connect first to webserver ilom first), Can we do install use ALOM on T2000 (like we install use ILOM on )? , what i know ,we can access sun 4200 use web and we can share dvd on windows ...

i am a beginner of sun solaris 8.0. But i use Linux frequently. now am trying to install solaris8.0 in my pc.( intel P-4 , 256MB ram, MSI main board ,40 GB HDD)My hard disk geometry is....No type system1. primary ( NTFS) winXP2. primary ( etx2) Linux3. primary ( NTFS) ( not in used, kept for ...

1.Is it possible to use dictionary files to validate passwords changes via Patch or manual configuration?can be done, if you upgrade to Solaris 10 and edit /etc/default/passwd (see man passwd) this is the asnwer I have got from this forum, I appreciate however i need a solution in solaris 9 ...

I installed Solaris 10 on PC which installed XP on the other partition. I couldn't boot system whith XP or Solaris that i select. Is it possible to see both OS on the boot menu? How can i study XP and Solaris on the same PC?

Does anyone know how to use the execlp function call to execute a process using the pfsh shell. I am working in Trusted Solaris 8 02/04.Basically I want to be able to use the execlp function to execute a command like this:/usr/bin/pfsh -c "<command> <arg 1> <arg 2> ... <arg ...

Normally if we send a signal to a process which has several threads, the main thread of this process will handle this signal. But I found in some cases an other thread (not main thread) handled signals even if main thread was alive(mostly main thread was being blocked by __pollsys()).I want to ...

Folks,This problem is weird.The metadevices and format output shows a device/slice as 4GB but df -k showing the slice as 2GB. Any suggestions... df -k |grep d10/dev/md/dsk/d102058319 408649 158792121%/ metastat d10d10: MirrorSubmirror 0: d12State: OkaySubmirror 1: d11State: OkayPass: 1Read ...

I posted a message because I did not reach to connect my Palm Tungsten to my SunBlade 1500. Finally, that works! How? I don't really know, but that works.I have another problem :-) :JPilot or pilot-link have a problem to see the right port (and so do I).My Palm is attach as /dev/usb/830.61/0 ...

In Solaris 9 Update 7 (2004/09) the multilayered flash archive installation feature is broken.I think that this is a known issue:4945516 Failure of multi-layered archive with Solaris 9 4/03 on Postdeployment processI manage to flash my archives by changing the following statement found at line ...

hi, I implemented a purely incremental backup system using dump, so I had to modify dump to take an arbitrary int as dump level. I've applied the change to linux and febsd dump, but I can't seem to find the solaris ufsdump source for use on our suns. any suggestions?-Matt

Hi,I am running Sol9 with the latest patches. The console gui freezes every time I try to admin NIS users in my NIS toolbox. It used to work but now it doesn't. I need to access this thing from a web browser if that's possible since there is no console that I can install on my windows laptop ...

hello,I'm trying to get an HP 20/40db scsi dat tape to show up on solaris 8 x86. All recent patches applied.Called HP support and they told me to set switches to all on except 6 and 7. Tape shows up on bios as SONY 20/40 DAT.However, nothing shows up when doing iostat -En.mt -f /dev/rmt/0 ...

i have two 3com pcmcia NIC, 3CCFE574BT and 3CCE589ET. The 589 only works with force-8bit configuration. Is it possible to configure just the 589 as force-8bit ? I need the 574 to run in 100BT mode.thanx...

I have installed a solaris 8 on my pc. Everthing seems ok but system configure assistant. Everytime the system starts up, it always runs system configure assistant automatically to make me check the devices it find and select boot device. What should I do? Thanks a lot!

I have downloaded Solaris 9 12/02 OE for x86 for $20 and created 3 CD disks from the ISO files. Browsing this and other forums I see that I am not alone in having trouble during the installation process. My problem is that one of the very first things that happens when the computer boots from ...

I am planning to have solaris on my P4 based PC. Can anybody advise me Plus and Minus of having this software. If we are in a networked environment, Can we use Solaris X86 as host to connect to other Solaris based servers.. if then what is the relevence of products like Humming bird's EXCEED ...

when I install gcc2.95.3,I see SFWgcmn.what is it?Do I need to install it ?How to install?

I am migrating from Windows 2000 OS, and I have already installed the SUNOS 5.8 for x86 (04/01). The only problem I have is how to get my existing card which is a CNET PRO200WL (which uses a DAVICOM dm9102A chipset) to work with the new OS. The card comes with a LINUX and SCO UNIX drivers, but, ...

Hi there,I have a question on using /tmp Vs. Shared memory to get the best performance of my application.My application is a performance intensive one and needs to store various data into a file as fast as possible.So, I would like to get a performance comparison between the below mentioned two ...

To find any info about the interpretation (!) of the kstat dataseems to be hopeless:* man kstat describes the API and no more* header documentation like in sysinfo.h is coarse* example source code can hardly be found - the SymbEL package does all relevant computation internally, and even in the ...

i crashed my kstat on solaris 7. From where do u get kstat to intall again

I'm not sure if this is the proper forum for this...After tzset() has set up the timezone and altzone variables, a call to mktime() may mess the values of both time and altzones, depending on the input to mktime().The enclosed C program illustrates it.We have seen this problem if the input to ...

Hi,I am writing a program in client/server mode. Client and server communicate through shared memory and semaphore. I use Posix 4 semaphore (sem_open ...) library. For an unknown reason, I have no permission to generate the semaphore using a specific path name. I can delete system V semaphore ...

I am trying to use the kernal statistics interfacekstat for a mini-performance montoring suite.Can anyone direct me to some more detailed informationand, if possible some worked examples ?#I have seen the example code on the Solaris 2 Competitive ...

We are running WLS 7.0.1.0 on JDK1.3.1_03 on SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60. The JVM keeps crashing very often with the following message -An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at ...

As part of the J2EE recommended cluster, I attempted installing patch 108528-26 to my Solaris 8 box (all of which was downloaded from sun.com):SunOS boedev 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MPIt failed and rolled back as part of the cluster with the following error log:Package not ...

I got a "supposely" NEW server with an Open Prom password assigned.There is anyone knowing if the Sun Servers came with a DEFAULT Open Prom password for booting ? And which this password is ?By the way I'm trying to install Solaris using a text based terminal with the serial interface, maybe ...

Hi,I just want to know what is the contents of the Sun EIS CD. Is it the same as the latest cluster patch under sunsolve?Thanks and appreciate any response.