Setting up NTP (the Network Time Protocol) on Solaris 10 is very simple but requires a few less than obvious steps that can trip up someone looking to set up a basic NTP daemon to sync their local machine. The first step is to install the NTP packages SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu, both of which are …
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Solaris Dstream Package Format (Package Stream)
If you have worked on Solaris for a while you have probably stumbled across the package stream or “dstream” package format sometimes used for Solaris packages. Dstreams can come as a surprise to Solaris administrators who have become accustomed to the traditional package format. But Dstreams are very easy to work with if you just …
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Rsync on Solaris 10
I was interested to get Rsync up and running on my Solaris 10 server – an UltraSPARC based SunFire V100. To my dismay the Rsync package is not available for Solaris 10 from SUN. So I decided to set out on a journey to discover how exactly to get Rsync “the right way” and to …
Issues Sharing Automount Home Directories from Solaris to Linux
I discovered this problem while attempting to share our automounted home directories from my Solaris 10 NFS file server to my SUSE and Red Hat Linux NFS clients. automount[10581]: >> mount: block device 192.168.0.2:/data/home/samiller is write-protected, mounting read-only kernel: call_verify: server 192.168.0.2 requires stronger authentication. It turns out that the solution is quite simple. The …
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