Questions tagged [solaris]
Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems (currently owned by Oracle) as a rebranding of SunOS 4.1.x in 1991.
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solaris on sparc not booting automatically on poweron
My environment : SunOS solaris 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc SUNW, SPARC-Enterprise-T5120
eeprom showed auto-boot?=false
So I used command eeprom auto-boot?=true and eeprom would show auto-boot?=true
I ...
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How to install Java 7 on Solaris 9?
Oracle states the following regarding Java 7:
This version of the JDK is supported on the Oracle Solaris 10 Update 9
or later OS, Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS, and Oracle Solaris 11 OS
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Solaris 11.3 can't import a pool
I had some reboots last days and guess it's something to do with the SAS controller. But maybe I'm wrong.
Any idea why the zpool import and zdb -e [pool] aborted or crashed with core dumps?
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Update Java version, Solaris 10
I'm trying to update Java version on Solaris 10. I have downloaded a tarball jre-8u73-solaris-x64.tar.gz. Using these commands:
which java
/usr/bin/java
gzip -dc jre-8u73-solaris-x64.tar.gz | tar xf ...
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ssh-copy-id to a tcsh on Solaris?
Im trying to copy a public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on a Solaris server. It fails with this error message:
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <USER>@<HOST>
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-...
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Color coded 'ls' under ssh connection from Mac to SunOS server (tcsh shell)
I'm on a Mac under OSX. I ssh into a remote server which is running SunOS. The default shell under the remote server is tcsh, not bash. How can I set the ls to generate color coded output as I have ...
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Cannot connect Solaris 10 to Windows 7
I'm trying to connect a Solaris VM (powered by VMware Player) to Windows Explorer in Windows 7. When I try to map the network drive I get the following:
The specified server cannot perform the ...
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Solaris shd_config file resets after restart of ssh - how to prevent this?
How do i avoid this happening, i need the sshd_config file to contain
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
oot@uln-pca-oracle-solaris-11-2023-10-16fqbbqv:/export/home/opc# echo "Subsystem ...
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Autofs trying to mount ZFS filesystems and failing
I created four filesystems using zfs on my T2000 running Solaris 11.3. Two automatically mount on boot (as they should) but two fail with the error message from autofs that the mount points are not ...
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No operating System found in Vmware workstation 16 for Solaris 11 in MX Linux
I have downloaded the Solaris 11 testing ISO from the official Solaris download page; I wanted to try out a Unix-based operating system. I have downloaded the ISO from this link.
I have created a ...
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Cannot boot alternate boot environment in openindiana
i have installed two boot environment on my openindiana hipster 202004 server, rpool and rpool1.
These are the steps i followed for my second boot environment:
zpool create -f rpool1 c5t3d0s0
beadm ...
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Why is this Solaris 8 SPARC install panicking on my Sun Blade 100?
I have a Sun Blade 100 with 2GB of NOS RAM, an NOS NVRAM module, and a recently shrink-wrapped set of Solaris 8 Installation CDROMs. When it comes up, the memory check passes OK and the system ...
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Adding text to the end of the mail sent from shell script
mailbody="${mailbody}${chk}% ${fs}\n \n Thanks and Regards,\n Myname"
I want to insert my name and "thanks" at the end of the mail.
I declared variables separately. When I try it, it is coming ...
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Solaris find files within a certain date range containing a duplicate of a certain string
I'm trying to locate files created within a certain date range that contain the string "field" more than once.
I've tried using:
find messagefolder -mtime -78 -exec egrep -il 'field.*field*' {} \;
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'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/??? - SunOS logging
I have a log like this in /var/log/authlog :
<date> <server> su: [ID 366847 auth.notice] 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/???
and in /var/adm/sulog
SU 12/12 11:13 + ??? root-root
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What is consuming ZFS pool space?
Environment:
SP firmware 3.2.4.1
zfs
Solaris 11 zones
Problem:
Poor system design has lead to constant space pressure on the internal disks.
Once a pool goes over 80%, zfs goes into a whole lock ...
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How can I find out the load on a specific fc port via dtrace?
How can I find out the load on a specific fc port via dtrace?
I need to know the speed of reading and writing + IOPS. I read a lot of documentation but did not find anything useful to this topic, I ...
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Bash - substituting parameter in parent match (SED/AWK)
I'm working on a small script to take some variables, packageName, newVersion. I've googled and tried an awful lot and it brings me to asking.
The script executes as: updatePackage.sh -p weblogic-...
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Recommended size of memory and hard disk for a VirtualBox VM for Solaris with Oracle
I have a laptop with Windows 7 64-bit operating system. I have installed VirtualBox 5.1.14 on it. Now I want to create a Solaris 10 VM where I would like to install Oracle 10g. What is the recommended ...
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"Device Cannot Start" for Intel-based Gigabit NIC
I have recently acquired two SUN Quad-port Gigabit low-profile ethernet NICs (PCI-Express 2.0 x4) for a home-lab setup. These are rebrands of the Intel I350-T4 adapter, which has full, cross-platform ...
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Various environments and weird less behaviour
I am playing with I/O redirection and have problem with less behaving differently in two environments. Both environments are Solaris-based and
are of the same version.
I am executing program in two ...
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Solaris 10 p2v conversion
I've picked up a system where the disk slices are odd and the ldmp2v prepare fails on disk sizes. I believe I have a mangled manifest file and I want to adjust it so it works. Does anybody have a ...
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How to boot Solaris from network (using Windows 7)
Currently I have a single Board Computer: Themis USPIIe-USB™ 6U VMEbus computer board based on the Sun® Microsystems 550-MHz and 650-MHz 64-bit UltraSPARC® processors. Currently it boots from an ...
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Find the creator of an idle TCP connection
On Solaris (or Unix), how can I find the remote host associated with the creation of a currently idle TCP connection?
lsof gives me a bunch of lines like this:
java 25375 foo 8161u IPv4 ...
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Oracle Client 11g for Solaris
OS: solaris 11_2-text-x86
I want to install an Oracle Client but can only see the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (SPARC) but my Solaris OS isn´t sparc. When i still install the sparc version (...
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How to upgrade python version 2.5.5 to 2.6.8 in Solaris 11
I am using SunOS 5.11 Solaris. Currently I have python version 2.5.5. I would like to upgrade it to 2.6.8. Can someone please help me on the steps to follow for this upgrade? Please note, I need the ...
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Unable to print to print using CUPS on Xerox WorkCentre 5755 from Solaris
I am trying to print on network printer Xerox WorkCentre 5755 from Solaris with CUPS 1.4.5 installed. Due to lack of any Solaris related information I have set the printer up with manufacturer ...
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Solaris: ssh -tt with no output
I have access to a machine running SunOS 5.10 (called solaris). I also have access to a RedHat machine (called redhat).
ssh -tt seems not to give me output if run from solaris to solaris, but works ...
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command at boot, before another script
This should be an easy question, but as a solaris novice, I'm stuck.
I have to launch a change MAC address command at boot (i.e. ifconfig bge0 ether).
If I do this at terminal, everything goes smooth.
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Need Solaris network driver 64bit
I'm newbie in Solaris and I need network driver 64bit for: -
pci bus 0x0004 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1186 device 0x4b01
D-Link System Inc DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 11)
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Single quotes and variables inside a bourne shell
I have this command that I'm trying to execute in the bourne shell for Solaris 9.
find ${DATADIR} -name "check_*" -type f -exec sh -c '$0 | ${PARSEDATA}' {} \; >> ${TMP_1}
My problem is, the ...
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WD TV Live HD and Solaris
Since a few months I own a WD TV Live HD media player and I'm pretty satisfied with it. The performance is good and it's quite stable.
But from the beginning I had issues with the CIFS implementation ...
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Missing xvar.h header file: Where can I find it?
I have some code originally written for Sun4/Solaris and it's asking for an xvar.h header file. The comments say:
/*
The xvar.h file defines the XVAR, XINTIT, ARRAY, and comma
macros used to ...
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XYRATEX HB-1235 Complete Array Dropping
I have an XYRATEX HB-1235 connected to a Solaris 11.4 system via a single SAS cable to an LSI controller. The drives in the array are SATA.
Every now and then, possibly due to a slight power flicker (...
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Where do terminal font colors come from in an SSH session?
Using gnome-terminal I connect to my servers at work using SSH from Ubuntu 18.04 or 22.04. These work servers can be Sparc Solaris or Linux (Fedora).
When I connect to the Solaris servers from my ...
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Solaris 8 X11 binaries generate segmentation violations on NetBSD
All,
Recently, I've been trying to get the Solaris 8 versions of xterm and xauth working on NetBSD from an ssh client with X11 forwarding, but both binaries seem to generate segmentation violations ...
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How to decrease the length of the output of "ps -ef" command? It is showing full output with unlimited length
When running ps -ef command on our new solaris server the command outputs the full arguments of the processes including passwords and usernames. It seems the length of characters it is showing is ...
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Passing the paraphrase as an option to encrypt/decrypt command in solaris
Can we pass the paraphrase as an option to the encrypt/decrypt command without being prompted for stdin?
encrypt -a aes [-i input-file] [-o output-file]
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Understand vmstat output in Solaris
What does r b w column exactly means in vmstat output.
Does r means number of threads which are waiting for CPU or number of threads currently running .
Also what does b and w column means.
When ...
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Extracting a file in solaris
I'm try to extract a file in solaris to a folder.
I have tried following combinations but no luck.
gunzip -c jdk-8u211-solaris-sparcv9.tar.gz > /opt/java/jdk8.2.11
I'm getting a is directory ...
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Why Solaris Message Queue Getting Full?
I am using below Solaris operating system -
uname -a
SunOS dcapp 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc sun4v.
I have created 3 message queues here. Suppose message queue names are
AAA ( process a)
BBB ( process ...
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sftp atomic move from Solaris
I've got an application that is watching file move atomically to a specific directory.
When doing a sftp from a RedHat linux server, uploading a file to a tmp dir, them moving it with the "rename" ...
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Would it be possible to run unix system as a docker linux image on top of Linux?
I understand that is impossible to run a docker image of a certain OS on top of a host with a different kernel than the image because of the fact that Docker images use host kernel to work...
I'm ...
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Reliably tail/stream a log file to another machine (Keyword: Reliably). Strangely impossible?
I have a growing logfile on a unix box. I just want something that collects that data on another box within a few seconds of it being written.
Sounds simple. But I need it to not introduce screw ups ...
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Solaris 10 non-global zone's IP addresses not visible to the global zone
I have a Solaris 10 box that I use for testing. I configured some non-global zones on it in the following manner:
mkdir -p /zones/wks
chmod 700 /zones/wks
zonecfg -z wks
create
set autoboot=true
set ...
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Solaris 10: remote root ssh login
I am trying to enable root ssh login for a Solaris 10 VM (10.0.2.15) on a private netwrork. I have set PermitRootLogin to 'yes' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config as well as commenting out "CONSOLE" in /etc/...
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Command to remove all files except some latest one which work for both solaris and linux
I am trying one command which remove all files from a location except the latest one. I have working command for linux but its not working on solaris machine.
The below command will remove all files ...
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Error when lauching the command "bash"
I'm using SUN Solaris-8 and i tried to install an application to run it into : i failed because i got insuffisant disk space. So today i delete some useless thing in the disk but when i try to execute ...
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Solaris T5120 Unable to boot from USB
Boot Media Creation
I created a USB boot media on my OS X El Capitan using the following command
dd if=sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb of=/dev/disk3
then i waited and made sure it finished successfully ...
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Priority in Static routes?
I have 2 default routes with different gateways:
# netstat -nr
Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- --------------------...