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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zfs on linux device names
I'm a native Solaris guy and as I look into more Linux use, I'm a little confused about a theme I'm seeing in some posts about ZFS on linux.
The posts refer to the use of device names when defining a ...
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Is there a reason why the value of a wchar_t retrieved by mbtowc() is not the UNICODE value?
If I convert the character 'ö' from a UTF-8 locale (where is is represented by the two octetts 0xC3 0xB6) to a wchar_t, I get a wchar_t value that is 0xF6. This applies to Linux and Solaris.
If I ...
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Sun UltraSparc IIIi Solaris 5.10 emulation
I have an old Sun Blade 1500, with a Ultrasparc IIIi 1.5 GHz, 2GB ECC RAM. SunOS 5.10, ufs filesystem. The hardware (MB, HDD and video card) is failing on me and I'm searching for a way to emulate it ...
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Mount Solaris 9 (Sparc) drive in Solaris 11 (x86)
Need help please to mount a Solaris 9 disk via USB in a Solaris 11 VM. This is so I can get my files off the Solaris 9 disk that I haven't seen in years.
Following this doc:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/...
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Calculating Free Memory using kstat vs vmstat vs mdb
In attempting to calculate the free memory under Solaris 10, I noticed I get different results using vmstat versus kstat or mdb.
The basic commands:
/usr/bin/kstat -p unix::system_pages:freemem | cut -...
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OpenSSH session is killed when from Perl a syswrite call is made with an empty variable in Solaris 11
We have a strange problem in Solaris 11.4.
The problem arise when a code as the following is run from Perl
my $emptystring = "";
syswrite STDOUT, $emptystring;
The execution of a syswrite ...
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Illumos/Solaris equivalent of FreeBSD devd (daemon to run userland programs when kernel events happen)?
I have been searching the illumos man pages for an equivalent of FreeBSD's devd (way to run programs based upon kernel events), but I could not find any.
Is there an Illumos/Solaris equivalent of ...
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How to force OmniOS (illumos) "format" properly recognize disk geometry?
I have a FreeBSD-initialised 8-disk vdev, all 10TB WD RED, now on a server with OmniOS r151026, connected via LSI 3008 HBA.
At POST, the card shows all disks with right geometry (I can post picture ...
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Installing Intel GM965/GL960 secondary graphics controller driver on OpenIndiana
I'm trying to get OpenIndiana Hipster build running on an HP 6910p, but the secondary graphics controller is not working.
The primary driver is working using the i915 driver as part of the xorg-video-...
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Unable to sync NTP v4 client to Windows AD server
I realize that Microsoft doesn't even recommend using a windows server as a time service, however I don't have a choice -- closed network in a windows centric shop.
It became an issue when the newer ...
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Does ZFS reads and writes show up in vmstat -p output
I am aware of ZFS not using the regular file system cache for caching pages for reads or writes (ZFS uses ARC and ZILs).
My question is would "vmstat -p" on a recent Solaris machine also reflect read ...
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Tribblix: cannot start xfce
I installed the illumos (opensolaris) distro Tribblix and can't start Xfce. I tried both with a display manager, slim (I know it's old, but it's the only one they offer), and from the console. The ...
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"ndd" equivalent of "ethtool" on Solaris
I've to restore a large file from a NAS backup on Solaris 10 ZFS. I'm using this following command:
rsync -av [email protected]:from/NAS/files/system to/solaris/files/system
And I've got this ...
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How to kill inactive user logins on Solaris?
On a Solaris 10 server if i do a w, I get this:
12:26pm up 85 day(s), 1:13, 6 users, load average: 0.38, 0.36, 0.38
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
blah pts/1 ...
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Can file handles be translated to filenames?
Is there a tool for translating file handles to file names on Solaris 10?
I've looked around and found several scripts including the one at:
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/fhfind.perl
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