Solaris 7

These are various to-do items after a Solaris 7 install, as well as fixes for common issues.

Configure the default domain

Assuming example.com is the system’s domain name:

echo example.com > /etc/defaultdomain

Configuring the domain name will address a potential error on startup: starting rpc services: rpcbindkeyserv: failed to generate host's netname when establishing root's key

Configure the default gateway

Assuming 192.168.1.1 is the gateway:

echo 192.168.1.1 > /etc/defaultrouter

Specify an IP address and hostname

Add an entry for your IP address and hostname to /etc/hosts
Ensure that the hosts file entry matches up with what’s in /etc/hostname.le0 (replace le0 with whatever the network interface is)

Configuring the IP address and hostname will address the potential startup error: configuring network interfaces:ifconfig: foo.example.com: bad address le0.

Enable ntpd

echo server pool.ntp.org > /etc/inet/ntp.conf
/etc/init.d/xntpd start

Errors on startup related to snmpXdmid:

Error in Adding Row for Subscription Table Entry
Failed to add filter to SP for Event delivery

The workaround is to disable these two services (assuming you don’t need SNMP anyway):

/etc/rc3.d/S76snmpdx stop
/etc/rc3.d/S77dmi stop
mv /etc/rc3.d/S76snmpdx /etc/rc3.d/_disable_S76snmpdx
mv /etc/rc3.d/S77dmi /etc/rc3.d/_disable_S77dmi

Backspace key

To get the backspace key to work properly on the console (^H is a literal Ctrl+H; you can get it by typing Ctrl+V Ctrl+H):

stty erase ^H

Disable “Solaris User Registration” on OpenWindows or CDE startup

Every time OpenWindows or CDE starts, it launches the HotJava browser to display a Solaris registration page. To stop this:

echo DISABLE=1 > /etc/default/solregis