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Hello! I want to set a variable for entire solaris environment. for example TEST = TESTX export TEST I want to do this and I want to see TESTX everytime I do this: echo $TEST ...
How to check MAC address for Solaris?
Hi All, I have a solaris 8 machine on which I am trying to set up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH so it will still be set on reboot. Currently I have to set this by hand each time the machine is reboo...
I have been trying to get SSH installed on a complete and fresh installation of Solaris 8.  All patches and packages are installed but when I try to create the keys below is what I see: # s...
what are the steps to rotate wtmpx in solaris safely?
Hi, I am trying to redirect crontab jobs' output from email to log file. The crontab output go to root email by default. Changed the crontab files: 30 10 * * 1-5 su - oracle -c xxxxxx > ...
How do I  disable Xserver in Solaris 10? Will this kill all x related services?
Hi When we were previously using a Sun V880 (with 8Gb memory on Solaris 9), CA  Unicentre monitoring tool reported memory utilization at about 65% (I was told by  a colleague). Last mo...
Good Day Experts I know this question might be simple to a lot of you, but I am just an idiot when it comes to solaris. Can anybody tell me how do I install a driver package which comes in ...
I have a Sun Enterprise E3500 on Solaris 8 that have 3 identical internal Sun 18G fiber channel disks.  The problem is that, they look IDENTICAL so I don't know how to boot to a different dis...
How to check Hard disk problem at ok prompt in solaris The command i tried ok devalias screen                   /pci@1f,2000/TSI,gfxp@1 net                      /pci@1f,4000/network@1,1 ...
I am setting up an NTP server and have completed that correctly.  The next step is getting the NTP clients configured.  I cannot get the NTP clients to sync due to lack of multicast broadcasts...
I have a Sunfire v120 with Solaris 8, there are two partitions 0       root    wm       0 -  5880        8.10GB    (5881/0/0)  16990209 7       home    wm    6091 - 24619       25.53GB    ...
Dear Readers, please help me if you know what the pollsys system call does; I am trying to understand every detail  of what the following command produces:                        truss -v...
What can be done to a server running Solaris 5.8 complaining of 'couldn't set locale correctly'.please urgent solution is needed. Thanks all
Anyone know the command to check patch levels of all critical files on a Solaris 5.9 Generic_112233_03 box. This is a production box so I can't install anything and don't want to get into s...
I need to start a TFTP server process on my Solaris 10 (08/07) Sparc machine in order to upgrade a Cisco device.  How do I start the TFTP server?  How do I verify it's running?  How do I test ...
Hi Experts, I have searched over the Expert Exchange but didn’t found a proper solution for this. Please advice ! Thanks !
I have a Sunblade 2000SPARC running solaris 10.  I am having an issue with receiving e-mail.  I have 3 different options I could use as the SMTP server, one using port 25, one port 26, and one...
Hi, I found a  @LongLink in a directory. What is  @LongLink? What do I do with this? Thanks Jamie
Hi, I am newbee in UNIX/solaris  i cant install samba on solaris see wht steps i tried in cdrom # pkgadd -d . SUNWsmbar SUNWsmbau SUNWmbac SUNWsmbas but it could only install SUNWsmb...
I have a new V490 server. It is preinstalled with Solaris 10. When I first connected to serial management port, it shows 'Please login'. I tried possible default passwords that the vendor pr...
Hi, I have inherited a Solaris 9 machine that is a production server and has applications running (most likely from /usr/local but there is also /home/msql).  This machine was built with a sma...
We have a server running Solaris 10 that is set to the eastern time zone.  The contents of /etc/TIMEZONE are: TZ=US/Eastern CMASK=022     So, everyone is forced to EST.  Is there a wa...
Hi gurus, Some weird issue...I am not quite good in *nix...but i am very good in using the same commands ;) i am trying to delete an existing route but when i try i am receiving this error.....