Solaris

Suggestions 1: kstat NIC duplex...
G'Day Folks, Please may I suggest the following to Sun, could the NIC kstat values be more consistant across interfaces. .... As some background, lets try ndd for these two Solaris 10 3/05 servers to check duplex, # ndd /dev/hme link_mode 1 # ndd /dev/bge link_mode operation failed: Invalid argum... 11 Apr 2005 02:13

Solaris x86 (v10.0)
Hello everyone, I recently decided that I would try out the new Solaris, being that the last time I tried it (v8 for x86), I found that I couldn't really use it - the setup was slightly broken. This may have just been the PC that I was trying it on, but I never managed to get another PC that I could freely try ... 8 Apr 2005 17:21

Booting 2.8 from raw device (broken root mirror)
Somehow my root mirror (DiskSuite) got hosed and I am getting a "cannot mount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,0,blk fstype ufs" error. Booting from alternate disks as specified in devalias gives same result. Can't I tell it to boot to the raw device as in c0t0d0 to boot from a single drive and ignore my mirror? Sorry, Su... 7 Apr 2005 18:27

Oracle Solaris gcc pro*C makefile?
Hi, Can anyone help please, I am trying to use compile some pro*C programs on Oracle 10g with Solaris 10(Intel version) I do not have the cc compiler and am trying to use gcc. Can anyone point me to a makefile and env_mk that will work with this combination. Tried changing the cc to = gcc etc but can't get it t... 7 Apr 2005 15:50

Solaris 10 Transition Guide????
Is there a Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 transition guide? I keep running into little things, like having to use svcadm to start/stop stuff, instead of /etc/init.d scripts. (Where are the svcadm files hiding anyway?) I have a serious problem with automount. I have three auto_mapfiles. Two work and one doesn't. Th... 6 Apr 2005 15:56

Read-only file system after power outage and reboot
Hi, There was a power outage and I had to restart my solaris machine: SunOS mymachine 5.7 Generic_106541-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 Now whan I attempt to make any write on the /usr drive I get the following type of message: cp: cannot create ../mc3.tar: Read-only file system Here is the line in my vfst... 6 Apr 2005 01:53

kernel tuning and Solaris 10
I was trying to install Oracle 9i on Solaris 10. Oracle needs following entries in /etc/system for allocating more Shared Memory and semaphores. set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=1073741824 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10 set semsys:seminfo_semmns=2000 set semsys... 5 Apr 2005 06:38

useradd dumps core with S10
On my recently installed Solaris 10 (sunblade 100) useradd dumps core when using -p option and projectname is given. Searched sunsolve but did not find this problem # useradd -u 1001 -g 10 -d /export/home/frank -s /usr/bin/ksh -p test frank Segmentation Fault(coredump) # file core core: ELF 32-bit M... 3 Apr 2005 19:59

Networking solaris 10 on x86
I have two nic cards. elxl0 and elxl1. elxl0 is assigned dhcp from my cable modem and I am able to surf internet fine no worries. I want to have elxl1 send the internet out to the rest of my network. I am new to solaris and do not know how to do this. I used to use nat and ip forwarding on my linux box but am not... 2 Apr 2005 18:14

Solaris 10 - Performance tuning
How to configure the IPC Semaphores and shared memory on Solaris 10? Thanks, Zulupe ... 1 Apr 2005 06:37