Solaris

@incredible

This is the installation part:
bash-3.00# pkgadd -d top-3.6.1-sol10-sparc-local

The following packages are available:
1 SMCtop top
(sparc) 3.6.1

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:

Processing package instance <SMCtop> from </Documents/top-3.6.1-sol10-sparc-loca l>

top(sparc) 3.6.1
LeFebvre et al
Using </usr/local> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
1 package pathname is already properly installed.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

Installing top as <SMCtop>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
/usr/local/bin/sparcv7/top
/usr/local/bin/sparcv9/top
/usr/local/bin/top
/usr/local/doc/top/Changes
/usr/local/doc/top/FAQ
/usr/local/doc/top/INSTALL
/usr/local/doc/top/LICENSE
/usr/local/doc/top/README
/usr/local/doc/top/Y2K
/usr/local/man/man1/top.1
[ verifying class <none> ]

Installation of <SMCtop> was successful.

Now when I invoke the top command:

bash-3.00# /usr/local/bin/top
bash: /usr/local/bin/top: Invalid argument

This is what I get.

Any ideas?

ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
do this.. Thx.

remove any SUID bits if its created, since it'll be only executed by root
chmod ug-s /usr/local/bin/top

If top DID need to read /dev/kmem, you'd just make it setgid kmem and
it would work fine

Your package is obviously designed for SPARC and won't work with x86 based hardware.

Download top-3.6.1-sol10-x86-local.gz or simply use prstat which is standard and supported.

@incredible

Another thing that I noticed is that, the size of the /usr/local/bin/top is less where it is working than the one where it is not working.

non-working:
==========
bash-3.00# ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 10044 May 28 2007 /usr/local/bin/top

working:
======
bash-3.00# ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 5816 May 28 2007 /usr/local/bin/top

@jilliagre
It is working on some x86 blades, dont know how that happened. So i went ahead with all of them.

change the ownership to root:sys instead of using bin:bin and try
chown root:sys /usr/local/bin/top

Or you can remove the package and try re-installing. At its worst, use the package recommended by Jilliagre

jlliagre has given the correct answer. There is no amount of tinkering that is going to make the Sparc package work on x86. Uninstall the version you have installed and replace it with the x86 version.

Hello Guys,

Thanks a lot. I downloaded the x86 version and it is working fine. I downloaded it from GDS - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/platform/sun/solaris/freeware/intel/5.11/ ... Googling in a generic way never took me to this site. When jilliagre suggested this, i googled with that name and now it is working fine. Although am stumped that the sparc versions are running fine on some x86 machines.

Anyway thanks a lot guys. Hope this thread helps others too