Hi Guys,

New on here and need some help setting up my Solaris 8 server....

Basically I'm a DBA by trade, hence the name, but started a new role and have been given the servers and all the kit as mine. However we moved offices and the IT Guys don't know how to set up the servers and aren't willing to learn so its left with me.

Any idea what I need and how I can do it?

I know I need the IP, Default Gateway and something else (can't remember which), which I'll get from the IT guys but once I've got that what files do I amend to get it up and running on the network.

Oh yes, before I forgot this is a weird one as I'm doing the changes whilst not plugged into the network as they won't give me access to the server room.

Thanks,
DBA

By the way, in process of looking it up as I'm going to have to learn but haven't a clue where to start.

Thanks in advance

I guess we should start with what do you need to do? just change the IP?

If it's just the IP you need then modify the following:
/etc/hosts #IP address goes here
/etc/defaultrouter #Gateway goes here
/etc/netmasks #Subnet mask here.

on Solaris 10 if it is running an early version you will need to modify /etc/inet/ipnodes to change the IP.

Add /etc/hostsname.<interface> to the list of files to modify if it currently contains a plain IP address instead of the hostname.

Also /etc/resolv.conf in case the DNS servers are different, /etc/defaultdomain in case this file is used by your naming service.

Thanks for your input guys....stupid server is hanging at the moment. Its an old E250 sun box.

Also it goes straight into the Solaris 8 gui (is that the right terminology??) and I'd rather use command line as I'm much better with that. Any ideas?

Funnily enough, just as I wrote this the server died

Right Machine has now officially died, on boot up it says

Drive not ready
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Drive not ready

and it just hangs...

Beware not to insult servers ...
You are presented the CDE login screen.
Either you log in in the graphic environment and open terminal emulator windows or you can just select a full screen text only session if you feel better with that.
I warned you ;-)

Thanks Jlliagre, I've given up on that server for the time being and moved to another one which is exactly the same...

However, this one is not doing anything when I turn it on either. Think its just running slow and I don't think it was shut down properly before the move because as soon as I plugged it on, it turned on.

How can I stop the CDE from coming up and get the full text screen version?

And if you could tell me how to shut this machine down cleanly that would be a bonus

Thanks,

That is an expected behavior.
Run these commands as root:
Here is the way to properly shutdown and power off a Solaris machine:

Me again, with yet another question.

When I turn on the server it says

{0} ok

I then type in boot and it starts up fine, any way to stop this from happening?

Also, now this is the biggy, the root password I've been given for this box isn't correct. Any way I can get around this? I've got the correct password for the ORACLE user but not for root

Just so you know, don't have a boot CD (lost in office move) and its not plugged into the network yet so I can't hack it that way..... I wish we had a UNIX Admin

Yes, enable auto boot at the ok prompt:
Boot on a Solaris installation media, mount the / filesystem and remove root's password from the /etc/shadow file.

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