Solaris 10 Milestone Dependency

Hi all,
I am running Oracle Solaris 10u8 on a x86 Machine.
I have read in Solaris Admin 2 document and see that there is a special service in Solaris 10 named "Milestone".
SA2 document saids:
"A milestone is a special type of service which is made up of a defined set of other services.
A milestone can be regarded as a system state to reach. This system state requires a defined set of services to be running. These services depend on other services being available. Hence, there is a hierarchy of dependency relationships."
In my machine, I tried to issue below command to find all the milestones in Solaris OS:
root@x4150 # svcs | grep milestone
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/name-services:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/devices:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/network:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/single-user:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
online Oct_14 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
However, I see that the "svc:/milestone/name-services:default" milestone is ONLINE despite of the services on which it depends are all disabled.
root@x4150 # svcs -d svc:/milestone/name-services:default
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Oct_14 svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default
disabled Oct_14 svc:/network/nis/client:default
disabled Oct_14 svc:/network/dns/client:default
disabled Oct_14 svc:/network/ldap/client:default
I do not understand why the "svc:/milestone/name-services:default" milestone can be ONLINE. I think that all 4 services (nisplus, nis, dns and ldap) should be ONLINE before this milestone can be ONLINE.
Please help me to understand this situation. Is the any misunderstand of me about Milestone in Solaris here?
Thanks so much for any help and suggestion.
BR,
HuyNQ.

The service manifest for milestone/name-services defines that the grouping for all 4 services it depends on is "optional_all".
That means these services must be online, disabled or in maintenance. The other types of grouping are require_all, require_any and exclude_all.
# svcs -l milestone/name-services
fmri svc:/milestone/name-services:default
name name services milestone
enabled true
state online
next_state none
state_time Sun Aug 01 16:17:38 2010
logfile /var/svc/log/milestone-name-services:default.log
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/dns/client (online)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/ldap/client (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/nis/client (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/rpc/nisplus (disabled)

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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [solarisx86] Re: mboot doesn't show x86 partitions and hangs
I got it working with additional steps and information source (
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>
>
>
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9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
pboot is written to sector #0 of slice 8.
sector #1 contains the SunOS disk label.
sector #2 is unused (?)
bootblk is written to sectors #3 and following on slice 8.
On a HDD that can boot from the Solaris fdisk partition, the
following commands should report no cmp differences:
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s8 count=1 | cmp /usr/platform/`uname
-i`/lib/fs/ufs/pboot -
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s8 skip=3 | cmp /usr/platform/`uname
-i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk -
cmp: EOF on /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk

Help/advice needed on installing Communications Suite!

Hi,
I'm still a new boy with Solaris so this is going to be more of a training excersize then anything else.
Basically I have a Sun E420r server in a home rack along with some Netra T105's to train me up with Solaris. I would like to install the Java Communication Suite on the E420r, however I haven't been able to find any install guides for it on the sun.docs website.
Ok being too hasty with no experiance I downloaded the Enterprise System first and tried installing all components at once (bad idea!) which didn't go in well at all as many of them failed. I have now decided to switch to the Communications Suite standalone installer but I'm still having problems with some components already installed from the Enterprise Suite installer and also I'm not sure how to even get the services up and running.
Sorry if I sound like a total beginner, I have manged to get many things up and running with Solaris 9 and 10 so far but could not find any guides for this at all. I did find this page:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1312.2
which is ok for when you have the system setup but what do I do to get it to that stage??
The server also runs the Secure Global Desktop Software coupled with the Sun Ray Server Software of which a Ray client is running off the system. But I really wanted to experiment with the Communications suite too as currently I have Scalix (MS Exchange equivelent) running on a CentOS Linux based system which was relatively straight forward to setup using CLI or GUI it's pretty simple - with documentation of course :-)
If anyone can just give me a hint or point me in the right direction I'd be really greatful!!
Many thanks

Many thanks again Shane!
shjorth wrote:
Correct. Thunderbird doesn't have a personal-addressbook extension at this time. For synchronisation with hand-held devices, you would use http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Sun+Java+Mobile+Communications+Documentation
This is in part due to a lack of standards for addressbook/calendar data. The CalDAV/CardDAV standards will help in the future. We are already working on the CalDAV side of the equation:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Calendar+Server+7+Information
Seems like you work at Sun :-D
This kinda goes out to everyone that works there but just keep doing what you guys do best and creating amazing software and hardware. I really hope the Oracle takeover won't disrupt that at all as I am totally taken by Solaris I think it's awsome!!!
-Too bad that I got into so late though as I've been using Linux since around 2004-2005 and Solaris for only round say 3-4 months now which means in comparison my experience is really limited. However on the plus side things are shaping up very well as I seem to be nearly in a job which means that I will make lots of use of Solaris OS and depending on what the company wants I may be involved with setting Solaris boxes up too which would be amazing as it would give me a whole lot of opportunity to learn much more then what I can with 4, 10 years old servers as part of my home lab. Although the position is no way guaranteed but things are looking really positive.
All I can say is that I can't wait to use Solaris in a professional environment but also can't wait to get funding for newer more powerful machines for my lab so I can actually make use of a lot more Sun software like clustering and Java Web server and all the cool freebies which can be downloaded!

Unix Installation at Home

hi,
currently Windows Me is installed on my Dell Pentium III m/c 20GB hard disk.
I want to install Unix(dual boot) for using it with Oracle later. Would really appreciate your guidance. Any books or other recommendations r welcomed.
Thanks in advance

Partition the disk and install Solaris or Linux.
Linux supports more hardware than Solaris, so it depends on what hardware you have (and would like to use).
If you would like to use the latest computer science technology, you should run Linux. Things usually happends "faster" in the Linux community. If you can wait a few months, Solaris is fine.
Oracle runns on both.

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