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by Ramdev · Published February 17, 2012 · Last modified July 2, 2015
One of the Sample Issue: Customer frequently sees in /var/adm/messages syslogd: going down on signal 15 which indicates that the system rebooted from a normal shutdown or init 6, yet no reboot has actually occurred and uptime indicates that no reboot occurred. If you stop the...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris DNS / Solaris Networking
by Ramdev · Published July 12, 2022
In this post we will discuss about the commands to check DNS configuration and functions for sendmail. Follow these steps to: ensure dns client configuration is in place and enabled; verify mail exchanger lookups are successful (if using DNS for mail exchanger lookups). To resolve error...
Sometimes DNS generates the following error: No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Booting / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified August 5, 2016
How Jumpstart Works: First Level Boot Process 1) When the “boot net – install” command is issued at the ok prompt, the JumpStart client looks for a Jumpstart boot server. 2) The boot server responds to the rarp request via the “rarpd” daemon (in.rarpd)....
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Installation / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published December 20, 2021
Below is the Common procedure used to troubleshoot the error message “Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet” First identify the MAC address of the interface used to boot the client for the network installation. You can also use below procedures to identify the MAC address of the...
When trying to copy a file across an NFS mount point the error “Permission denied‘ is reported.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking / Solaris NFS
by Ramdev · Published February 26, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
The NFS error macro listing is as follows:
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking / Solaris NFS
by Ramdev · Published November 5, 2021
NFS write failed: rpc: timed out NFS write error 60 on host <…> fhxxxxxxxxxx
When trying to mount an NFS file system from an NFS server, the mount fails with the error message: mount:<server>:/filesystem not responding: RPC: Program not registered
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NFS
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To prevent network break-ins, the “-nosuid” option is used in “/etc/vfstab” and the “/etc/auto*” configuration files used for NFS mounting filesystems. In “/var/adm/messages”, (the system log files), the following type of message appears frequently: “Date machinename enterprise: save,uid 0:setuid execution not allowed”
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