Questions tagged [solaris]
Solaris is a UNIX certified operating system owned and developed by Oracle for SPARC, x86 and x86-64 processor architectures.
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Patching with Puppet
I am new to Puppet, and I am wondering if it is an effective solution for patch/pkg management on Solaris as well as Linux. I am more interested on the Solaris side. So far am unable to locate any ...
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How to automatically detect inserted SATA disk in Solaris if cfgadm status is disconnected?
My goal is to automate a backup routine on a small OpenSolaris NAS (running OmniOS + napp-it on a HP Microserver N54L) in combination with SATA disks.
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I have installed one of those 5.25" ...
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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
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Will a Solaris server tolerate a ZFS pool from its future?
My experience with ZFS has generally been that it just works, so I expect the answer will be, it’s not a problem — but I have a data pool which will ruin my January if it fubars, so I want to double-...
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Highly available ZFS SAN/NAS with SMB and NFS
I've currently got a storage server running Oracle Solaris Express 11 with 12x1tb disks. It currently provides two functions: 1) Providing a datastore for a small vSphere 4.1 farm over NFS and 2) ...
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Priming a ZFS L2ARC cache on Solaris 11.3
Is there a good way to prime a ZFS L2ARC cache on Solaris 11.3?
The L2ARC is designed to ignore blocks that have been read sequentially from a file. This makes sense for ongoing operation but makes ...
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Where is my ZFS SMB share?
We run this pair of OpenSolaris servers that provide file storage. They run active/passive and stay in sync via snapshot replication every minute or so. Originally, they both ran OpenIndiana, but ...
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Practical difference between SPARC vs x86
Recently I've been looking into some SPARC devices and their capabilities.
But when I look for the differences between the two, I've seen a lot of people using the Ferrari vs bus metaphor
If your ...
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LACP vs 802.3ad
I’m looking to create an aggregation on a Solaris box using dladm. I understand that once the aggregation is created, 802.3ad will be used to balance the load depending on the policy (L2, L3 or L4). ...
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Solaris 10: Drop disk cache? (to benchmark app)
Is there a command to drop the ZFS and UFS disk caches? (Preferably just one folder hierarchy.)
I'm trying to tuning the performance settings of an application that read/writes data from a large ...
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Is there a Informix command to repair database?
We have a Sun Solaris system running Avaya CMS software. The software uses an Informix database. We have a single drive in the server. The drive began to go bad, corrupting files. We sourced a new ...
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How to move a Solaris Container from one zfs filesystem to another on the same server?
This seems like a simple thing to do, if it would only work as documented. However, it doesn't work thanks to some bug in the zoneadm move process. Go figure. Firstly let me show what the trivial ...
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X86 Solaris boot failure
We had a power outage last weekend that seems to have done some very bad things to one of our x86 Solaris machines. It is refusing to boot, and dropping me to the "grub>" prompt when started. I can ...
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Solaris 11: understanding high values in the kernel statistics
what can cause these kernel statistics (as reported by top) to be so high?
Kernel: 152661 ctxsw, 2475 trap, 99065 intr, 1449 syscall, 3 fork, 2373 flt
Usually, my system has much lower values, e.g.
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What is the difference between aclinherit and aclmode?
ZFS filesystems can have the aclinherit and aclmode properties set on them to control how inheritable ACL entries interact with object creation and Unix-style permissions operations.
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What part of Solaris version string IDs the update?
Solaris 10 server. I need to determine if the server is Solaris 10 Update 9 or greater. Can someone interpret the version strings below? What part of those strings identifies the update that has, or ...
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Viewing the loopback interface on Solaris 10 (using snoop or another tool)
I am trying to use snoop on solaris 10 to detect traffic between a client and server both located on my machine. Question: I just want to verify that I should use the loopback interface for this.
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Tar files older than x days
I have a directory which I would like to scan through and add each file older than 50 days to a new archive named archive.tar
All files older than 50 days must be in one big tar not a tar for each ...
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Does rsync preserve ACL?
I am using Solaris 9 and planning to go for a Linux OEL 6x now.
I will be using rsync for the data movement from Solaris from to Linux server. I am really concerned about the ACL[ FACL- getfacl, ...
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SSH login without password
I know that you can use ssh-keygen to generate a public/private key pair. Then you can install the public key on a remote server. You can then login without supplying a password. I haven't been ...
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ssh without password does not work for some users
I have a new RHEL4 Linux box that I am using to copy data to old Solaris 2.6 and RHEL3 Linux boxes with scp. I have found that with the same setup, it works for some users but not for others. For ...
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On Solaris, how can I tell what processes are doing disk i/o on a particular device?
On Solaris, iostat tells me that a device is 92% busy, but how do I find out what programs are making the requests?
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ZFS backup advice with another server
I currently have two servers both have the exact same hardware, disks, etc.
One server (server1) is going to be the "main" server. It's basically a server with raidz2 that has SMB shares on it that ...
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Why would different versions of openssl produce different hashed filenames for the same root cert?
OpenSSL - Solaris - Windows
When I run c_rehash (OpenSSL 0.9.x in Solaris) and c_rehash (OpenSSL 1.1.x in Windows), the same exact cert.pem file gets converted to a .0 file with a completely ...
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Building one big filesystem with JBOD and ZFS
How to build a really big ZFS filesystem?
The above question is vague in the 1st reading, so more precise.
I know how to build big ZFS volume with one computer. e.g.
get a good computer with ECC ...
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What are the major practical differences between OpenSolaris and Linux?
I currently use CentOS for on my server, and I've been trying to figure out the practical differences between Linux and OpernSolaris. I'm not a linux master, I merely know my way around the system and ...
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Why are Solaris logins slow when remote storage server NFS mounted?
We've got a curious problem with one of our Solaris (10, U8) servers. If we have our extra storage array mounted via NFS, the Solaris user logins are exceptionally slow. Unmount the storage device ...
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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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Displaying the contents of a Subversion repository
I would like to be able to list out the contents of a subversion repository from a Sun Solaris client. What svn subcommand, or options, do I need to give to do this?
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zfs send -i / receive stalling
On a Solaris 11.1 install, I see stalls when receiving a zfs incremental stream. The streams are originating from a Solaris 11.0 install, are created using zfs send -i and piped through mbuffer. At ...
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ZFS: will RAM shortage cause trouble?
what can happen if i've not enough RAM with a ZFS with dedup option activated?
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Solaris 10: Editing nfs mounts?
I'm working on a Solaris 10 box & I need some help with nfs. My /etc/dfs/sharetab is currently:
/myvol - nfs sec=sys,rw=server1:server2
How do I add a server3 to the list of where ...
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Are multiple global-scope IPv6 addresses on one adapter sane?
Setting up IPv6 on Linux is pretty trivial, you can follow IPv4 guidelines and give yourself a static IPv6 address.
On Solaris things are not so rosy, IPv6 only works after running in.ripng. After ...
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Understanding iotop (DTT) output in Solaris
When running DTT iotop on a write heavy Solaris 10 server, which runs multiple zones with MySQL daemons installed, I get the following output:
UID PID PPID CMD DEVICE MAJ MIN D ...
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ZFS Raid-Z confusion
I've now settled on OpenSolaris and using ZFS for the speed and loveliness of it all in comparison to LVM+XFS. But now I'm left with a dilema about how to configure the intital disk layout. As I'm ...
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Solaris ethernet ports: nge2 and nge3 are missing
There is a Sun X4100 with an interface nge0 which is configured and working. The server has a group of 4 network jacks in the back and nge0 corresponds to ethernet port 0.
I tried enabling ethernet ...
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ZFS hard drive configuration
I'm just wondering whether its wise to add 4x500Gb and 2x750 into the same ZFS pool? Or should we only add the same size hdd's to the pool?
Any documentation would be really handy or guidelines on ...
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How do I recursively list all NFS shares/datasets on OpenIndiana?
Running OpenIndiana 2020. Issuing zfs get sharenfs lists all NFS shares for the most part. But how can I see if any subdirectories have been shared with different properties? Selecting a filesystem ...
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Windows user can overwrite NFSv4/Solaris ACL permissions of files on CIFS/SMB share (grant himself full access), how do I prevent this?
I have SMB/CIFS file sharing set up on an OmniOS server with the Solaris kernel module which uses NFSv4 ACLs that should work correctly with Windows clients.
I want to create a shared directory with ...
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Solaris kernel parameter equivalence to Linux
I have set the following tcp kernel parameters in Solaris
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_ip_abort_interval 120000
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_rexmit_interval_max 15000
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Solaris crossover via fiber
I have two Sun servers running Solaris 10. Both have Emulex fiber channel cards. I'd like to connect the two in a "crossover" fashion like you would copper ethernet & IPv4. Point being I have a ...
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Solaris 11 hangs randomly: need help to figure out the reason
I've got Solaris 11 (+latest SRU) running on an HP DL385 G7 (attached to P2000 storage w. 30 disks; they are registered as separate RAID0 drives, but I'm using ZFS' raidz1), which is our file server. ...
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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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What is the easiest way to get mod_perl and mod_dav_svn integrated into Apache on Solaris 10
I've written some software that uses Perl code running inside Apache (using mod_perl) to work with (amongst other things) subversion (using the mod_dav_svn module).
I'm currently writing some how-to ...
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Any experience with MS System Center Linux/UNIX agents
My current employer is planning on rolling out System Center agents on Linux and Solaris servers. I'm not here to debate why I'm not a fan of this idea, that battle has already been fought and lost (...
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solaris zfs won't import pools from another system after a system crash
attempted to import a couple zfs pools from another solaris 11.1 box that crashed hard. the log device went corrupt but the disks are fine. there weren't any writes to the system (it sits idle) so i'...
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ZFS permanent error; options for recovery
Background: small personal server, email, web, shell, etc, for family and friends.
SunOS 5.11, snv_113 from November 2008. Server built in 2009. I believe that was either opensolaris or Solaris early ...
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Why JDK is installed with Web/Application Servers?
I am upgrading the JDK version of the application server to 1.6. However, I dont understand why we need to place JDK on the application server instead of a JRE?
Since there is no need for any re-...
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Behaviour of solaris tcp stack with relatively high RTT and bursty traffic
I have an application that is distributing data from New York to Tokyo over TCP running Solaris 10. Mean throughput is < 1Mbps, peak throughput can reach 20-30Mbps for seconds at a time though ...
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Visually identifying Dell disks on Solaris
I have a Dell PE1950 running the latest OpenSolaris, connected to a Dell MD1000 enclosure with 15 disks in it. I am not using PERC to control the disks, instead I use a simple SAS 5/E (LSISAS1068) ...
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