Mount an ISO image

lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso /dev/lofi/1
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso` /mnt

mount -F hsfs -o ro `lofiadm -a /export/temp/software.iso` /mnt

Source: http://www.tech-recipes.com/solaris_system_administration_tips218.html

Cron log: Bad user

This happend on Solaris 10 when the user account is locked out.
Change the entry in the shadow file from LK to NP

Performance Tuning

iostat -xnc 10

     cpu
us sy wt id
25 12 14 49
                   extended device statistics            
   r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
   0.3    0.9    3.2    7.9  0.0  0.0    6.0   16.6   1   1 d1
  16.3  102.6 3011.8  960.0  0.5  1.0    4.3    8.3   0  48 c4t600C0FF000d0

I/O-Bound System

Field     Value  sar Option

%busy (% time disk is busy)  >85  sar -d

%rcache (reads in buffer cache)  low, <85>30 sar -u
fileserver >80

Excessive Swapping/Paging

bswot/s (ransfers from memory to disk swap area) >200 sar -w

bswin/s (transfers to memory)    >200 sar -w

%swpocc (time swap queue is occupied)   >10 sar -q

rflt/s (page reference fault)    >0 sar -t

freemem (average pages for user processes)  <100>2 sar -q

%runocc (% run queue occupied and processes not executing) >90 sar -q


Good reference site.

OK Prompt

OK Prompt

Get to the OK prompt from Solaris.

Enter "~ctrl_b"

From the Lom> prompt type "break" and enter.

Can't mount/eject cdrom

The CD is in the drive. You can't see it. you can't mount it, you can't eject it.

Restart vold. Kill -9 does a good job.

Start vold with /etc/init.d/volmgt start