[geeks] [rescue] Solaris 10 puzzle

[Phil Stracchino]

Ok, folks, here's a puzzle for the best brains.

I have a new Solaris 10 install on my U2.  The following processes are, 
at this moment in time, running:

    PID TT       S  TIME COMMAND
      0 ?        T  0:10 sched
      1 ?        S  0:00 /sbin/init
      2 ?        S  0:00 pageout
      3 ?        S  0:06 fsflush
      7 ?        S  0:04 /lib/svc/bin/svc.startd
      9 ?        S  0:17 /lib/svc/bin/svc.configd
     87 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
     88 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/picl/picld
     89 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventd
    106 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/crypto/kcfd
    109 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/power/powerd
    159 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/inet/in.ndpd
    180 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind
    184 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/statd
    187 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
    190 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/saf/sac -t 300
    192 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/nfs/lockd
    197 ?        S  0:01 /usr/lib/inet/inetd start
    199 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/utmpd
    200 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon
    276 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/autofs/automountd
    299 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
    308 ?        S  0:01 /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmd
    317 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    329 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sadm/lib/wbem/cimomboot start
    362 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx -y -c /etc/snmp/conf
    367 ?        S  0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
    374 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/dmi/dmispd
    384 ?        S  0:01 /usr/sbin/vold
    417 ?        S  0:00 /usr/sfw/sbin/snmpd
    456 ?        S  0:00 ssh-agent
    630 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    633 ?        S  0:00 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
    660 ?        S  0:00 ssh-agent
    198 console  S  0:00 -bash
    635 pts/1    S  0:00 -bash
    665 pts/1    O  0:00 /usr/ucb/ps ax


Root's crontab contains only the following:

#ident  "@(#)root       1.21    04/03/23 SMI"
#
# The root crontab should be used to perform accounting data collection.
#
#
10 3 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm
15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
30 3 * * * [ -x /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean ] && /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean


Nevertheless, SOMETHING on this system is repeatedly resetting the 
system's hostname to '-s' at intervals of a few minutes, and I can't 
figure out what it is.  I've even tried grepping the entire system for 
stray 'uname -S' calls.  No joy.  I'm fresh out of ideas.

Anyone have any suggestions?  Short of adding a cron job to reset the 
correct hostname every minute?  Between this and the fact that 10 seems 
to have been released halfway through switching over from classic 
/etc/init.d scripts to svcadm, and the fact that despite the murmurs 
about Sun moving away from CDE it seems practically everything on 
Solaris 10 almost down to the *kernel* is dependent on CDE, I'm 
beginning to really acutely dislike Solaris 10.

(Well, OK, maybe not the kernel.  I hope.)


-- 
  Phil Stracchino
  Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker
  phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
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