I was looking for an older window manager other than CDE or OpenWindows for Solaris 7 (for an exhibit of several different Sun workstations at an upcoming vintage computer federation show). I really like fvwm2, but am having problems getting configure to run. I'm pretty open to anything, but the lowest memory usage is preferred. submitted by /u/dairygoatrancher [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

good morning, still studying opensolaris 11 oracle, clean good install, looking around, dmesg is fine, but /var/log/syslog or message is empty, is it normal? need to look elsewhere? is solaris default logging to other files? thank you. ​ submitted by /u/Such-Complaint-6513 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

good morning, i get that rdsk is "raw" char based access, but why this difference? what is about char device raw disk usable for? thank you. ​ submitted by /u/Such-Complaint-6513 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

good afternoon, learning the ropes with opensolaris (great os btw, fascinating and powerful), i understand that is just maintaied not innovated and will be "over" in 2037...so i was curious what is actually using oracle as "base" os for its products? oracle linux? thank you. submitted by /u/Such-Complaint-6513 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I got a Sun Blade 100 with an incompatible nvram. When I bought it on eBay, the seller claimed the system needed new nvram. I thought that the system had correct or original nvram with a failed nvram battery. When I tried to boot OpenSolaris installer, I got can't load tod module error. I am disappointed and sad. Due to family issues, I cannot return or even purchase cheap nvram at this point. If anyone has old nvram (dead battery is fine), would you mind messaging me? I do not have the heart to throw away my Blade 100. It took me lot of pain to get the system. And I always wanted a SPARC sys ..read more

Hi everyone! Recently I've been working on implementing an auditing system for my Solaris machine. I attempted to use auditd, assuming it functioned similarly to its Linux counterpart. However, I found its working cumbersome due to the excessive noise generated, particularly for routine actions such as executing a simple command or writing to a file using vim. I searched for help in the documentation, especially here and in the man page of audit_control and related, but I can't find a valid solution. This is my configuration /etc/security/audit_user admin:fw,ex:no /etc/security/audit_contr ..read more

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-the-first-oracle-solaris-114-cbe "The CBE build(s) are a similar to a beta, they are pre-release builds of a particular SRU. As such they will not contain all of the fixes that the resulting SRU contains. However like the SRU release they are accumulative and include the fixes in prior SRUs and CBEs upto that point in time." However i havent seen any other version since the release 11.4.42, so no updates since roughly two years. submitted by /u/mieser [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Dear Sun lovers, I had my first experience with Sun hardware somewhere in end of 90-ies. I had access to, if I recall correctly, Sparcstation 20 (may be, just may be it was 5; together with some other obscure hardware like DEC Ultrix/MIPS). By the same time I became fascinated by UNIX world overall, and was just happy to be able to experiment on different machines. Playing around, studying, building, who remembers, those "unix gateways" for 10-20 computers, with first NATs that you had to compile into FreeBSD kernel. By the same time, like many of us did, I received Tekmetrix online certifica ..read more

Goodevening everyone. I have just installed Solaris 11.4 in a VM and i'm playing around with it to learn. When i type "date" i got the following output: Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 9:00:01 PM CET ​ Timezone is set and date/time is correct. However, i want 24H format shown. I've been googling without finding any answer to I wanted to give it a shot here. On my FreeBSD box is shows correctly: Sat Mar 23 21:03:52 CET 2024 ​ any tips? Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/perjr [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Just wonder is there any end of support date for SRU, e.g. 11.4.21 as can not found any official document for SRU end of support. Or there is no end of support date for SRU version and end of support will follow 11.4 ? submitted by /u/esun2003 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more