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There must be no spaces in the /etc/syslog.conf file. If there is even one, it breaks. vi /etc/syslog.conf, type :set list.
Tabs will appear as ^I, spaces will be white spaces.

Again, tabs only.

I hate to say it but its time to upgrade the OS. I worked on MP-RAS and SVR4 when it first came out 24 years ago. I'm afraid I forgot the nitty gritty of the OS. "/dev/inet/udp" is the UDP device...

Use the 'expect' program. It works like a charm. You can find it on sunfreeware.com.

It can use the following statements:

expect assword
send "the actual passwd"

using "assword" makes it...

I downloaded firefox-11.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2 from both links that you supplied. After bunzipping and untarring both files, i ran firefox/firefox. When the browser came up, I clicked in...

I agree with the "use zfs mirrored rpool" response. But if you want to use SVM to mirror the boot disk:

prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2

(man installgrub)...

Consider using the automounter.

If the first line of the cron job script is:
#!/bin/sh
export VARIABLE=value
will not work but
VARIABLE=value ; export VARIABLE
will.

If the first line is:
#!/bin/ksh
export VARIABLE=value...

You can get rid of the (harmless) sendmail errors by putting the FQDN of the server in /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.2 foo foo.bar.com

Windows XP does answer pings (I just tried it). You need to turn on routing in the Solaris box so it can route to the Windows box.
svcadm enable svc:/network/routing/route:default
and make sure...