System Adm » Solaris

Working with “SVC”

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:29:40 +0000

Follow useful commands to work with “SVC” in Solaris:

More option can be found at “man svcadm”
# svcs -a -> list all installed services.
# svcadm disable SERVICE -> disable a service. if you use “svcadm disable -t SERVICE”, the service will be disabled only until the next reboot. You can use this commando to stop a service.
# svcadm enable SERVICE -> enable a service. If you use “svcadm enable -t SERVICE”, the service will not be enabled automatically on reboot.
# svcadm restart SERVICE -> restart a service.
# svcadm reload SERVICE -> reload the configuration file.

More options can be found at “man svcadm”

Solaris and NRPE

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:16:20 +0000

A very nice guide to install NRPE and nagios-plugins on Solaris 10 can be found here. To stop/start the NRPE, you can use the following command:

# svcadm disable svc:/network/nrpe/tcp
# svcadm enable svc:/network/nrpe/tcp

If you keep getting the "CHECK_NRPE: Error – Could not complete SSL handshake." message, see this FAQ comment

name/address mismatch

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:38:37 +0000

You may get in the messages log the follow error when trying access a FTP server on Solaris:

Jul 16 16:19:13 SolarisServer in.ftpd[1940]: [ID 913506 daemon.warning] refused connect from 172.152.121.114 (name/address mismatch)

This happends because the server cannot resolve your IP address. To solve it, you need disable TCP_WRAPPERS checks for in.ftpd by using this command:

# inetadm -m svc:/network/ftp:default tcp_wrappers=FALSE

After that, you will be able to do FTP again

Forcing an user changing the password on Solaris

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:18:28 +0000

On Solaris, you can use the following commands to unlock na user and force it to change it’s password on first logon:

# passwd -f passwd: password information changed for

Restarting SNMP service on Solaris

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:59:25 +0000

To restart SNMP on Solaris you can use the following command:

# /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx stop /etc/init.d/init.snmpdx start