Solaris

Peculiar change in available patches
I regularly run `smpatch analyze' on one Solaris 10 10/09 system, just to see what new patches are available. This system is registered and has all entitlements. Until a couple of days ago, it's been showing this: # smpatch analyze 142242-04 SunOS 5.10: libpkcs11.so.1 patch 119280-22 CDE 1.6: Runt... 15 Feb 2010 13:12

difference between sun cluster "/dev/did" and "/dev/global" devices
Hello, I am not able to understand what is difference between "/dev/did" and "/dev/global" devices in sun cluster. Can some one explain in simple terms? I have a sun cluster where I am seeing that "/dev/did" is populated where as "/dev/global" is not. Is this normal (or) abnormal? Also should orac... 12 Feb 2010 08:55

Patch availability change
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of patches that used to be public are now contract only? Could this be part of a plan by Oracle to prod people into paying for support contracts? -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. ... 14 Feb 2010 19:38

<Beginner Question> - lu /sst
Hi! What is the most proper procedure when upgrading a server that ihas beenhardened by Solaris Security Toolkit. 1. undo the hardening, upgrade and then redo the hardening or 2. perform an upgrade directly on the hardened server. rgds, Mat ... 11 Feb 2010 03:55

Solaris 9 x86 - physical to virtual - VMWare
Hello, is there any tool or method to convert physical Solaris 9 on x86 to virtual machine on VMWare? I have v20z machine and I need more memory and disc for JES system, and I do not want spent money on upgrade of this ancient system. I am planing use my brand new M4000 for new version of JES, but now I have ... 9 Feb 2010 12:49

.o files?
Dear All Can you please let me know if the .o file extension comes from Unix/ GCC object files and how to open them ? Thank you ... 17 Feb 2010 00:14

Sun v40z + 64bit Windows
It doesn't seem to be supported form Sun, but will any 64bit versions of Windows run on this machine? Like Windows 2003 64bit, or WIndows 2008 64bit? Thanks, Jack ... 12 Feb 2010 10:02

Trying to optimize PHP on a T5140
I've got some developers who have obtained a "php benchmarking" script, obtained from http://www.free-webhosts.com/php-benchmark-script.php . They started using this while investigating perceived slowness in their Horde Webmail application. What this script does is essentially summed up as: for($i = 1; $i <= 2... 7 Feb 2010 07:34

zfs snapshort says "dataset is busy". Any better solution than remounting file system ?
I've hit a problem that a Google search shows others have had before - trying to create a snapshot, one gets a message that the dataset is busy. # zfs snapshot rootpool2/ROOT/S10u7zfsB(a)today cannot create snapshot 'rootpool2/ROOT/S10u7zfsB(a)today': dataset is busy The usual way around this is to unmount then r... 6 Feb 2010 11:51

Start program from boot, which needs library in non-standard place
On 2010-02-04 06:57:21 +0000, David Kirkby said: On 3 Feb, 21:55, Chris Ridd <chrisr...(a)mac.com> wrote: � � <exec_method type="method" � � � � � � � � �name="stop" � � � � � � � � �exec=":true" � � � � � � � � �timeout_seconds="60"/> � � <property_group name="startd" type="framework"> ... 4 Feb 2010 13:26