Solaris

Solaris 10 - password history
all, iam trying to get password history to work in solaris 10.. iam using update 4 #cat /etc/release Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC As root, 1. vi /etc/default/passwd added entry HISTORY=1 2. added a unix user, useradd -g maint unixusr2 3. passwd -r files unixusr2 4. telnet... 4 Jul 2008 15:08

Package modification/conflict on Solaris 10
I use several packages from sunfreeware.com. I ran into an interesting conflict which involves glib2 vs glib1, where both install into SMCglib. Of course when I go to install glib1 after glib2, I get a conflict (as expected). I read through the manpages for the various pkg* utilities, but I didn't see a direct... 4 Jul 2008 13:05

Cleaning user´s accounts
HI; I´m making a cleaning user´s accounts, and I´d like know if I can userdel this accounts below, and how does it exists: daemon:x:1:1::/: bin:x:2:2::/usr/bin: sys:x:3:3::/: adm:x:4:4:Admin:/var/adm: lp:x:71:8:Line Printer Admin:/usr/spool/lp: uucp:x:5:5:uucp Admin:/usr/lib/uucp: nuucp:x:9:9:uucp Admin... 4 Jul 2008 16:09

compilation in solaris
Hello I would like to know what should I install on my solaris 10 to have possibility to compile some progrs from sources... for now during compilation there are lots of notices of lack of headers file etc. for ex. lapi.c:8:20: error: assert.h: No such file or directory include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h... 4 Jul 2008 11:02

dhcp+ddns
Hi, I have setup my linux server to allow the dhcp server to update the dns server on the same box. So I thought, there will be no problem with my solaris (SPARC 5.10) box. If the ddns does not work, where should I look ? I get the following log entries in my linux box: Jul 4 12:38:10 jedi dhcpd: DHCPREQ... 4 Jul 2008 06:56

SunBlade 100 / NVRAM defect / OBP 4.x
Dear all, when I turn on my Blade 100 I get this message: Invalid format type in nvram Ethernet address ff ff ff ff ff ff", Host ID ffffffffffff I learnt from the net that I have to replace the IDPROM and to use "mkp" to reprogram the ethernet address and host... 8 Jul 2008 06:56

getsockname does not return local port
I have a simple UDP client program where getsockname appears to be behaving incorrectly. This is on Solaris 10. This is more or less what I am doing. You can find many examples of code like this on the web... I do more error checking. :-) struct sockaddr_in server; server.sin_family = AF_INET; ... 12 Jul 2008 14:36

Strange 'find' feature
The following script contains two calls of find. #!/bin/sh names="-exec echo s \; -exec echo e \;" export names echo $names touch foo echo with sh -c sh -c "find . -name foo \( $names \)" echo without sh -c find . -name foo \( $names \) It is intended to find all occurrences of the file 'foo' at or ... 7 Jul 2008 12:29

What does this scsi-message in the log mean?
Hi, we run Solaris (IIRC S10U4) on a DL385 with 4 GB RAM, the SUN Storagetek (LSI OEM) SAS JBOD HBA and two MSA70. In the log, sometimes these entries surface: Jul 3 10:35:59 zfsfiler scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci1166,140@f/pci1000,3150@0 (mpt0): Jul 3 10:35:59 zfsfiler Log info 31120403 ... 3 Jul 2008 12:30

how to shut down or reboot system without being root?
I have several versions of Solaris (Solaris 7 and 9). Right now, the only way to reboot or shut down these systems, is to log in as root, and reboot. But I don't want the users to know the root password. How do you reboot or shut down these systems without logging in as root? Thanks. ... 4 Jul 2008 03:52