Solaris is a UNIX certified operating system for SPARC , i86,x86 and x86-64 processor architectures. It was developed by SUN Microsystems until 2010 when the company was acquired by Oracle Corp. Subsequently Solaris has been renamed Oracle Solaris.
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Where is the arp_cleanup_interval variable in Solaris 11?
In Solaris 10 I can configure (and audit) the arp_cleanup_interval variable using the following command:
$ ndd -get /dev/arp arp_cleanup_interval
300000
In Solaris 11 (Express and Release) the same ...
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solaris + grep syntax in solaris
my target is to match Exactly the string snmpmanager from hosts file on solaris & linux
the following command work on Linux (red-hat 5.1) but not for SunOS , please advice how to fit the syntax ...
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Secure LDAP Alias Lookup through Sendmail
I'm trying to configure sendmail to use an LDAP lookup as an alias table.
I have this line in my config:
Kldapfullname ldap -k"uid=%s" -v"mail" -h"my-ldap-server"
I've been using that for a long ...
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Solaris: Clone/Recreate iSCSI target not backed by a ZFS Volume
Is it possible to re-create or clone an existing iSCSI target not backed by a ZFS volume? I ask because upon rebooting a X4500 Thumper, I was affected by this bug: ...
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Is AutoFS necessary?
In Solaris 11, if I have a single system (NAS), with no other users other than myself, can I delete autofs mappings?
To me it seems confusing to have things in two separate folders (/export/home ...
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Where to download Sun Solaris 10 SPARC 64bit installation cd's?
Sun has released Solaris 10 CDs for free usage / download. Now on the oracle site I can't find them. Where can I find Solaris 10 for Sparc 64bit? I have Sun Blade 1500.
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SCSI bus stuck in unconfigured state on SPARC/Solaris 10
The SCSI bus designated "c6" is stuck in an unconfigured state, and I cannot get the server to recognize the tape drive attached to this bus because the bus itself is not configured. Here's an ...
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Lock down Solaris Shell Changing for normal users
I have a few dozen Solaris(5.10) boxes. By default, they are using ksh as the shell. Only a few users have sudo privileges. The rest do not. I don't want my regular users changing to another shell.
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What options exist to compare the performance of a Solaris 5.9 and a Linux (Redhat RHEL 5.X) Server?
What options exist to compare the performance of a Solaris 5.9 and a Linux (Redhat RHEL 5.X) Server?
I have aging Solaris server and a replacement Linux server hosted on VMWare. A key success factor ...
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Solaris 10: installing ghostscript
I installed ghostscript-9.04 and its dependencies from sunfree and was receiving error for missing certain libraries. Then I removed the 9.04 version and installed ...
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Strong Cryptography in Solaris Zone
I'm trying to setup a Kerberos KDC on a Solaris zone but ran into a bit of a problem with the Cryptographic Framework on Solaris 10
even though the packages for strong encryption (SUNWcry & ...
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questions on replacing failing disk on solaris 10
I have replaced failed drives on Solaris 10 that are mirrored with SVM before. I am wondering if I have been doing it incorrectly... or taking a huge risk. I follow the usual metadetach, metaclear, ...
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NFS Mount Options on Solaris 10
I need to be able to mount an NFS file system on Solaris 10 using the equivalent of the nolock mount option. From what I can see this mount option is not available on Solaris (looks like its a Linux ...
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Undelete ZFS file shared by Samba
A user deleted a directory containing an important file over a Samba share.
Share was from a Nexenta box running ZFS, raid-Z3.
Last backup was 12 hours ago - is there a way to recover the 1 day's ...
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How to check the Sun Directory Server version?
How to get LDAP Server (Sun DS) Information in Sun OS 5.10
SunOS hostname 5.10 Generic_144488-06 sun4v sparc SUNW,T5240
Specifically
Server Type
Server Version
Protocol
Using the command ...
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How to mount Solaris Hard Drive?
I have received a HDD. It has single partition with id 42 SFS covering the whole partition. But I am reliably told that it came from Sun Fire XXXX (where XXXX is 15 hundred or thousand or something ...
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Detect terminal type with tput
I would like to configure the terminal type by detecting it. For example when I am connecting to a Solaris box with PuTTY, the $TERM variable is set to vt100. I would like to negotiate this so, when ...
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Solaris 8 - directories gone missing; is this housecleaning script the culprit?
Our outsourced IT service provider runs the following script via cron to clean up Oracle core and trace files. It clearly is not a well-written script, but my question for the Serverfault crowd is ...
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Mounting hdds in Solaris
I'm new to Solaris and trying to set up zfs pool but when I try this command: zpool create mirror tank c3t2d0 c3t3d0, I get this error: cannot open c3t2d0 no such device in /dev/dsk.
After checking ...
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sed + not work on solaris
I run the following sed syntax on Solaris machine and on Linux machine
on Linux machine sed do the JOB its remove all characters until the first number.
but why this sed syntax not work on Solaris ?
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Sendmail is not sending
I have a sendmail server on a Solaris 10 server that's stopped working. I can't seem to find anything about failed messages in /var/adm/sendmail. Here's what I'm seeing when I try to debug:
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SOLARIS + uname -v + OS version
when I type:
uname -v
from where this command (uname -v) take the OS version ? from which file/configuration-files ?
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tail -f without the tail?
Is there a command in Solaris to read a file, and when it gets to the end to stream the way tail does? I need to read the file from the start, and it is a binary file.
Information on Solaris and ...
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Mounting NFSv4 share from Debian Linux 6 to Freebsd 9-RC3 “server requires stronger authentication”
I've run into a strange problem while trying to mount from FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 to a Debian Linux box.
The command I'm using is:
sudo mount -v gorkon:/dustbin /tmp/test
This returns the following ...
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UPS monitoring software for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris
Looking to configure auto shutdown for my servers once the UPS battery reaches a certain state. We have MGE / EATON Pulsar M3000 UPS units, and a heap of servers running Ubuntu, FreeBSD and Solaris - ...
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Solaris Auditing (BSM) - How to log argv to syslog
By default, it seems that the argv from execs is not passed to the audit_syslog.so plugin. The binary audit log has the arguments included, but the plugin won't write them into the syslog. Everything ...
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Solaris 11 host stops responding, for no apparent reason
I've got Solaris 11 installed on an HP X1600 and I've recently been experiencing a strange issue where the whole system appears to hang, with no clue being given in the log files or on the console.
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Solaris drv/cpc module error on boot
On boot with a Solaris 11 machine, I am seeing the following error:
dcpc: unable to resolve dependency, cannot load module 'drv/cpc'
I'm having problems pinning down what is causing this to show up ...
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Solaris ethernet ports: e1000g1 and e1000g2 are not working
I can plumb and configure e1000g0 and e1000g3 using ifconfig, but I can't seem to make use of e1000g1 or e1000g2.
When I try ifconfig e1000g1 plumb, I get ifconfig: plumb: e1000g1: Invalid argument.
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Solaris host no longer boots after pkg update: intel_iommu0 generated fault event
I've just been doing some regular maintenance on my Solaris 11 box. I issued a pkg update command to be told that I needed to update pkg. This I did, and rebooted into solaris-1.
I then issued ...
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Clone hard drive Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)
I have an old 73gb SAS SCSI drive, so I plugged in a new 73gb SAS SCSI and I want to clone everything from it to the new drive..
I want to clone SCSI hard drive SD20 to SD21.
Is there an easy way to ...
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How to delete all but last [n] ZFS snapshots?
I'm currently snapshotting my ZFS-based NAS nightly and weekly, a process that has saved my ass a few times. However, while the creation of the snapshot is automatic (from cron), the deletion of old ...
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How do I configure Solaris 10 as a LDAP client
I have a 389-ds LDAP Server on Linux, and I want to configure Solaris to authenticate against it as an LDAP client.
I am able to see the user in getent passwd output, and can see user in ldaplist ...
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How to run truss with piped command in Solaris
How to run a truss command with piped output?
eg.
# truss -leDo /tmp/truss.out tar cvf - dirs/ | gzip -1 > archive.tar.gz
I get only the "tar" output in truss, not from gzip!
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Less or more command on Solaris for paginating output
When I type "ifconfig | more" or "ifconfig | less" the output isn't paginated on Solaris (I'm used to Linux and FreeBSD). Is there a way to do this on Solaris 11?
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ZFS - use pure ACLs to force group write permissions to be inherited
I am migrating a directory structure from a UFS filesystem to ZFS. In the old location I had POSIX ACLs set to force all new files/directories within the structure to be created with group write ...
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Solaris boot error
When booting a newly installed Solaris machine, I get this error
vbiosd [error]: unable to open /dev/fb, No such file or directory
Any idea on what this is? How to resolve or silence it?
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exported variable not persisted after script execution
I'm facing a wierd issue.
I've a vm with solaris 11, and trying to write some bash scripts.
if, on the shell, I type :
export TEST=aaa
and subsequently run:
set
I correctly see a new ...
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Filesystem space available using SNMP
I'd like to collect filesystem space information using SNMP on Solaris 10 and Ubuntu 11.10. The problem is that SNMP doesn't seem to have an attribute that corresponds to the "Available" column in df.
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solaris + change the default shell
I have Solaris machine , by default tcsh is the shell
How to change the default shell to bash,
for example - after log out and login again I will have the bash in place the tcsh!
I mean after log ...
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Solaris equivalent of hostname -f?
What is the Solaris equivalent of the Linux hostname -f command? On Solaris, when I type hostname, I receive the short name but I need to get the FQDN.
Typing hostname -f sets the short name to be ...
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MSCS file share majority: Why does it like a Windows-hosted share, but not a CIFS-based ZFS-hosted share?
I'm looking to change the current file share used for the file share witness in an existing two-node MSCS SQL cluster. Currently, the share is hosted by a remote windows machine, and I want to move ...
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JBoss basic access
I have JBoss 5 deployed on Solaris 10 - the servers connection has unrestricted high ports (>1023) open to the internet.
I can access the box via ssh & FTP from a second server on the same subnet ...
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Solaris 8 available for download?
A customer of mine is still using Solaris 8, now I have a product which requires testing against this OS, however looking at Oracle, they merely provide 10 and 11. Is it possible to find Solaris 8 for ...
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BASH_ENV ignored on solaris?
In my .bash_profile, executed for both my interactive and non-interactive logins are
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.myinteractivestuff
export BASH_ENV
doing this for bash on Linux works fine, but on Solaris is ...
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Sparc v440 unable 2 boot after recommended patch install
After installing the October 2011 recommended patch bundle on a Solaris 10 the host fails to boot. The output is
{0} ok boot
SC Alert: Host System has Reset
screen not found.
keyboard not found.
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how do you verify the value on OpenSolaris of intr_throttling
I want to throttle down interrupt processing due incoming TCP traffic between two VMs. I'm not hitting speeds documented by VMware of 27Gb/sec and interrupts are running 50K/second, so I wanted to ...
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Solaris, capturing total TCP data in/out using netstat
On Solaris 10 say I wanted to capture the total bytes TCP bytes received and sent.
Using netstat -s, it seems like the sum of these 2 values gives the total TCP bytes in:
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postfix/postdrop Issue with Solaris 10 (sparc) - permissions
I am trying to get postfix (installed from blastwave) working on a Solaris 10 server, but only root is allowed to send mail. The problem appears to be permission related with postdrop.
postdrop: ...
