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Operating Systems Solaris Admintool Post 302222649 by Stin on Thursday 7th of August 2008 09:13:45 AM
Old 08-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by dsbeerf
If you haven't specifically changed your DISPLAY variable (manually, or in a '.profile'), it is most likely set to: ':0'

Also, if you have done a 'su' to root in your "terminal", most likely you will NOT have permission to access the X server.

So, first do: "DISPLAY=:0;export DISPLAY" [or "setenv DISPLAY ':0'" for csh/tcsh.]
Then try the admintool again. If it does not work, then:

If you DID 'su' to root, open another command window (xterm, dtterm, etc.) as YOU (not root), and do: "xhost +"
This will allow you, as root, to 'connect' to the X server with your command 'admintool'.

B.T.W.: admintool will be eliminated in Solaris 10.
==
My set up is this:

I have a Sunfire V100 server running Solaris 8. ip address 192.168.1.250.
I cave a windows XP laptop and xwin32 installed. ip address 192.168.1.64

I can used xwin32 to bring up a CDE. Then a terminal window. From there I can su to root. (su -) But admin tool would not work. Error: Cannot open Display.

I used the above steps to resolve this issue, but first I needed to know the display.
- Log into CDE with regular user
- Bring up terminal window (whilst logged in as regular user)
- At the prompt type: echo $DISPLAY
-> It returned a line: 192.168.1.64:1.0
- Switch user to root: su -
-> enter root password
- At the # prompt type: DISPLAY=192.168.1.64:1.0 ; export DISPLAY

admintool &
and voila!
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

root_archive

root_archive(1M)														  root_archive(1M)

NAME

       root_archive - manage bootable miniroot archives

SYNOPSIS

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  pack  archive root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  unpack  archive root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  packmedia  solaris_image root

       /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive  unpackmedia  solaris_image root

       The  root_archive  utility is used to manage bootable miniroot archives and is currently only available on  platforms. The utility can pack
       and unpack boot/root archives in both ufs and hsfs (iso9660) format. It will always generate ufs archives.

       root_archive also uses the lofi file driver to export a file as a block device (see lofi(7D)) and mount to mount or  unmount  file  systems
       and remote resources (see mount(1M)). root_archive requires the same privileges that are needed to run these commands.

SUBCOMMANDS

       The root_archive command has the following subcommands:

       pack archive root

	   Pack from the image found under the root directory to the archive.

       unpack archive root

	   Unpack from the archive to an unpacked image under the root directory.

       packmedia solaris_image root

	   Pack the solaris image to the root directory.

       unpackmedia solaris_image root

	   Unpack the solaris image from the root directory.

       For  packmedia  and  unpackmedia,  other items that do not go into the ramdisk image are copied or uncopied (see cpio(1)) as well. Specifi-
       cally, this includes all the packaging databases needed for pkgadd and the other packaging utilities to succeed which are not used  in  the
       running and hence pruned to conserve memory.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Unpacking the Solaris x86 install image

       The following command unpacks the current Solaris image from the root directory:

       # root_archive unpackmedia 
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot

       Where  /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest  represents	a path to a Solaris x86 install image and /export/Boot is a directory that will be
       purged or created, as necessary.

       Example 2: Packing the Solaris x86 install image

       The following command packs the current Solaris image to the root directory:

       # root_archive packmedia 
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot

       The following exit values are returned:

       0

	   The command completed successfully.

       1

	   The command exited due to an error.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       cpio(1), bootadm(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5), lofi(7D)

								    26 Sep 2005 						  root_archive(1M)
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