Solaris

Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet - jumpstart client
Got it working this far at the moment. After boot net - install this is what is happening.... Did a snoop on the server and it seems to be accepting an ARP request from the client but doing nothing with it. What could be causing this problem? Its sol 10 and rarp, tftpboot, services are active. /tftpboot exis... 7 Oct 2009 11:54

Query on /var/svc/log
Hi All, Kindly let me know what does this line mean: smf_logs -C 8 -s 1m /var/svc/log/*.log I understand that there will be 8 copies of log file under /var/svc/ log each of size 1 MB. But I do not understand what does “smf_logs” mean? Regards, Bruce ... 5 Oct 2009 05:45

solaris 10 vs. sil3132 sata controller
The current version of solaris 10, sol-10-u7-ga-x86-dvd, can't handle the sil3132 SATA controller. It used to work (6/7?) with an added line in /etc/driver_aliases. Adding the line to sol10 now causes it to crash. About two years ago I switched to open solaris which works perfectly with the hardware out of the ... 6 Oct 2009 07:01

Are Solaris Certification going to still worth it?
I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get recertified on unbreakable linux . Please i need some advice ... 1 Oct 2009 06:10

cron not executing crontab for 'bad user'
This is on a Solaris 9/SPARC box running the stock Sun cron. I'm trying to set up cron jobs for a user called "cactiuser" for an app I'm standing up on the box. The crontab exists for cactiuser and appears to have the correct permissions: bash-2.05# ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/cactiuser -r-------- 1 ... 30 Sep 2009 15:47

Maximum shared memory segment size
Hi, SunOS 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 Total shared memory size can be obtained via getrctl(). That value on our system = 15 GB. But we need shared memory segment size > 15 GB. Are there any alternatives?' Thanks ... 1 Oct 2009 19:36

Jumpstart on Solaris 10 - things to start
Trying to get Solaris 10 set up as a jumpstart server. Done it before successfully on Solaris 9 but never on Solaris 10. I understand that system processes are a little different on 10 with the introduction of services. I've created /tftpboot directory, edited inetd.conf to allow tftp (and then run inetconv). ... 8 Oct 2009 17:58

nlspath lower case
Can anyone tell me why NLSPATH in a solaris 8 branded zone is displayed as nLSPATH (lowercase n), and as NLSPATH on a normal physical solaris 8? $ ./test.sh nLSPATH=qwerty123456 SunOS 5.8 Generic_Virtual sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-M $ cat test.sh NLSPATH=qwerty123456 export NLSPATH env|grep -i nlspath uname -sr... 28 Sep 2009 08:07

problem creating RAID1 volume with raidctl
I have a SUN Blade 2000 with an LSI 1068 controller inside. root(a)sb2000:/ raidctl -l 3 Controller Type Version ---------------------------------------------------------------- c3 LSI_1068 1.07.00.00 There are two external disks attached over eSATA. root(a)sb2000:/ raidctl -... 26 Sep 2009 15:48

NFS server and File locking problem
Hi all, I'm investigating the following problem: An application on a server started to fail, and when using truss I found it failing thusly: 22258: fcntl(3, F_SETLKW, 0xFFBFF300) Err#46 ENOLCK 'man fcntl' (and poking around on interweb) suggest I have a full file-locking table. I ... 25 Sep 2009 04:18