Solaris Troubleshooting Sendmail: Investigating Sendmail Errors from Syslog
Step 1 – Verify where syslogd will log sendmail syslog records to. After a Solaris install you will find following entries in /etc/syslogd.conf:
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Solaris 10 : Zone/Container creation
This post explains some of the basic questions and procedures involved in Zone/container creation 1) Where will the Container reside? # mkdir -p /export/zones 2) Configure the Container: Command zonecfg, located in /usr/sbin like all other Zone Commands, is used to configure the Container. The Zone...
Solaris Troubleshooting Reference – Forcing a coredump on hung x86 / x64 solaris system
Befor going for troubleshooting please confirm that you really having ” system hang “ Symptoms of System hang: System appears to be hung system is not pingable can not login can not execute commands can not mount shares can not start/stop services system not responding hanging...
Solaris Troubleshooting : Samba
Below instruction help you to understand, analyse and troubleshoot the problems with Samba service
Solaris Troubleshooting SDS/SVM : "device busy too long" error from sd / ssd
This message has nothing to do with a connectivity issue to the target device – it applies when that device has reported back a SCSI status 8 (“busy” status) to the host, and to report back a SCSI status, the target must be able to communicate...
Solaris SVM: Recovery procedures when BOTH sides of the mirror indicate a "Last Erred" state
As a result of unusual failures such as multiple power failures, Solstice DiskSuite /Solaris Volume Manager both submirrors of a metadevice mirror may be left in an unusual “Last Erred / Last Erred” state making it impossible to determine exactly which submirror must be fixed/replaced first...
Solaris Troubleshooting : Memory usage checking and troubleshooting
First you’ll need to check how much Memory is used in Kernel and how much is used in User Memory. This is important to decide, what troubleshooting steps are required. A nice mdb dcmd ( this command can take several minutes to complete, and you have...
Solaris Troubleshooting : error “RPC: program not registered” Errors
When we trying to use a particular RPC program, below may indicate that rpcbind is not running or the program is not registered with rpcbind. Error “RPC: Program not registered”
Solaris Troubleshooting : Restore SDS Root mirror from the backup
NOTE: In order to restore the machine exactly the way it was, it is necessary to have a record of the locations of the state databases, and also the configuration of the metadevices. These are *not* held in user-readable form on the root filesystem, so it...
Veritas VxVM : Booting Veritas root disk without VxVM, for maintenance
Volume Manager failed during the boot process, and we would like to boot from encapsulated root disk without vxvm. This assumes that the root disk mirror has not been corrupted yet!
