Solaris

Building Solaris 8 binaries on Solaris 10?
Is it possible to build binaries on Solaris 10 that will run on Solaris 8? I'm not using any special libraries other than libc, libm, libnsl, libsocket, and libdl. What I currently see is that this app links in libm.so.2, which doesn't exist on Solaris 8. But if I change the link command to link just /lib/libm... 13 Jan 2010 08:42

Packaging question (editing crontab)
I'm building a package on Solaris 10 to install some shell-script utilities (monitoring stuff) on some servers. Some of these utilities are fired out of cron; I'd like the package to modify the monitoring user's crontab as needed. I've got this in my prototype: i i.cron i r.cron e cron var/spool/cron/cronta... 14 Jan 2010 11:16

patchadd rejects sun studio patches
/usr/sbin/patchadd -M dir 128229-04 141858-04 142363-03 what /usr/sbin/patchadd /usr/sbin/patchadd: pdo.c 12:20PM JT 22 Mar 2005 SMI SunOS 5.10 Generic 119255-71 Nov 2009 fails ...... Package SPROmrcc from directory SPROmrcc in patch 142363-03 is not installed on the system. Changes for ... 6 Jan 2010 08:53

Assembler "/usr/ccs/bin/as" error while running Oracle 11G upgrade script
Our server is running Solaris 10 (01/06). We are getting following errors when upgrading the Oracle to 11G-R2. Any idea how I can resolve this ? Is this have anything to do with the version of Solaris 10 which is (01/06) ? *****************************************************************************************... 20 Jan 2010 07:17

ldom host cannot see ldom primary
Hi I've a Solaris 10 installation with ldom The primary domain is running SunOS solaris10 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise- T5220 Solaris and the ldom guest SunOS bdofi 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 Now, both have access to the LAN but they can... 6 Jan 2010 08:53

PLS COMMENT: *ONE* zfs safest, foolproof(est)? Re: ZFS: A *nested*zfs down within a higher-up zfs: SNAPSHOT the top one, bot one done too?
David Combs wrote: If the other posts (ie warnings) in this thread are "zfs: that's the way it works -- like it or not!", about NOT being able to via a SINGLE top-level "level-0" zfs snapshot (to later save to tape), and get *everything*, INCLUDING NESTED ZFS'S AND *THEIR* SUBTREES, etc, that... 6 Jan 2010 08:53

String of nulls in /var/adm/mesages
In debugging a Solaris 10 SPARC problem, I looked through the /var/adm/ messages file and found a long string of nulls before the usual system startup line: ^@^@^@^@^@^@Sep 28 14:11:42 c2539lui genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_120011-14 64-bit This line roughly corresponds ... 6 Jan 2010 08:53

Forcing cyclade to use SSH v2
Our 4-port cyclade is currently running SSHv1.68 (see below the ssh process and sshd_config file). Due to security concern, we must disable this version SSH v1 and upgrade/run only the SSH protocol version 2. Could anyone let me know how to do it without losing my SSH connection to this Cyclade ? Thanks, ... 6 Jan 2010 08:53

computing exp(1.0) on SPARC.
The value of E^1 is 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995957496696... Trying this noddy C program, I get a different answer from gcc than I do from Sun Studio on SPARC. GCC gets it more accurate than Sun Studio. On Open Solaris, using a Xeon processor, the two compilers give the same result. I ge... 6 Jan 2010 15:25

qla2xxx and firmawe driver + linux
Hello I've installed linux (gentoo) on SunFire280R. It's hard drive is connected using FibreChannel and qla2xx drivers. The problem is that these drivers need a firmware. Default gentoo installation does not use initrd. After booting (silo) durring qla2xx loading i've received error that "Firmware images ... 30 Dec 2009 19:49