Category Archives: solaris

Configuring NTP in Solaris 10

Posted on May 7, 2010 by carlosap

cp /etc/inet/ntp.server /etc/inet/ntp.conf edit the ntp.conf file. For an undisciplined local clock: change `server 127.127.XType.0` to `server 127.127.1.0′ comment out `fudge 127.127.XType.0 stratum 0` Syncing to an external NTP server: (see NTP.Servers Web for a list of public time servers) … Continue reading →

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Auto Power On : Restore on AC power loss X6240

Posted on September 26, 2009 by carlosap

To restore on AC power loss on a X6240 1) Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY 2) Chipset -> SouthBridge/MCP55 Configuration 3) Restore on AC Power Loss -> Power ON Ready !!

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crontab -e Editor enviroment

Posted on August 27, 2009 by carlosap

~]#cat .bash_profile export TERM=xterm export PATH=$PATH:/opt/csw/sbin/:/opt/SUNWhpc/HPC8.1/sun/bin source ~/.bashrc EDITOR=vim export EDITOR

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/dev/rmt0 Device busy

Posted on May 6, 2009 by carlosap

/dev/rmt0 Device busy If you are an Administrator and especially a backup administrator there is a very high chance that you get stuck with this error message with your backup. If you do a # mt -f /dev/rmt0n status (infact … Continue reading →

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Hot-standby

Posted on March 29, 2009 by carlosap

Hi All, I am fairly new to Solaris. I am running Solaris10 on a SunFire V240. I’d like to team mutliple NIC’s into a single interface with a single IP address. I’d like the to operate in a hot-standby mode … Continue reading →

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IPMP – IP Network Multipathing

Posted on March 29, 2009 by carlosap

IPMP – IP Network Multipathing Link-based failure detection works via network interface kernel driver. (bge, qfe, ce, eri, hme…) Uniq MAC address/nic… On SPARC machine (set true, if there is false): [root@v240 /] eeprom “local-mac-address?” local-mac-address?=true [root@v240 /] ifconfig bge0 … Continue reading →

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solaris 10 vlan configuracion

Posted on March 28, 2009 by carlosap

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2981/fpjve?l=es&a=view

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Procedures for creating TAR files and writing them to tape

Posted on March 23, 2009 by carlosap

# Change directories (cd) to the desired directory from which tarring will be done. cd /home/… (whatever) # To tar all the files in the current directory (.) and sub-directories # to the tape using medium density (m) and no … Continue reading →

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zfs and mysql

Posted on March 22, 2009 by carlosap

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-zfs.html

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perl solaris mysql driver

Posted on March 22, 2009 by carlosap

Yup, but for *nix I would recommend to use “real” perl and not the activeperl edition. With “real” perl you can simply just run these commands to get the up2date DBI and DBD::mysql modules compiled and installed in your system: … Continue reading →

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