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What is the difference between hardmount and softmount?
krishnakumarNair
- May 7th, 2008
Hard mount tries repeatedly until it gets timeout from server.soft mount throughs error if the source server is not responding
Mohammed Mujahid
- Feb 3rd, 2007
What is the difference between hardmount and softmount?Answer:Hardmount Errors will be generate frequently.Softmount?Errors will be generate later.
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When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for user name and password.What could be the reason and what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem?
krishnakumarNair
- May 14th, 2008
We need to check /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow and we need to check /var/adm/loginlog
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What is the difference between a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all?
Probe-scsi probes for local/onboard devices/peripherals off the onboard SCSI controller whilst probe-scsi-all identifies all devices attached to the onboard/local controller and separate Sbus , PCI controllers if present.
krishnaraghava
- May 21st, 2008
ok probe-scsi” To identify the devices attached to the on-board SCSI controller ok probe-scsi-all” To identify the devices attached to the on-board SCSI controller and all peripheral devices attached to separate SBus or PCI SCSI controllers
Jonty Marnoch
- Jun 15th, 2006
Hi,both these commands are run at obp (open boot Prom) probe-scsi will probe the internal scsi and probe-scsi-all will probe both internal and external scsi. Maybe not the best explanation but not bad...
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What are the basic elements of PROM and NVRAM?
PROM= Post, Generic Device Drivers, User Interface, Default Parameters NVRAM= Eeprom, Time of Day, Ehternet Addss, Hostid & Battery
krishnaraghava
- May 22nd, 2008
NVRAM1.important hardware element2.removable chip is often located on the main system board3.contains EEPROM4.EEPROM stores user -configured parameters that have been changed or customized...
Sampath Kumar
- Aug 17th, 2006
NVRAMNonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) is a special kind of RAM that retains data when the computer is turned off or there is a power failure. It is powered by a battery within the computer. It can also work by...
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What is the command can reconfigure devices with out reboot?
1. devfsadm2. drvconfig
darpanraheja
- May 22nd, 2008
devfsadm coomand is used to reconfigure devices For solaris 10 devfsadmd daemons is running for the same.
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What does "ps'"display when used without options or arguments
sooraj_mohammed
- May 29th, 2008
ps - reports process status Without options, ps prints information about processes that have the same effective user ID and the same controlling terminal...
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What are deamon and loc manager? Give brief descritions?
sumitkhanna
- Jun 10th, 2008
Daemon is the service provider for any commands like. The Volume Management service is controlled by the /usr/sbin/volddaemon. another example :- Volume Management features automatic detection of CD-R...
bipinbs
- Mar 5th, 2008
DaemonDaemons are nothing but the services which runs at the backend for e.g inetd is the deamon which takes care of all services like telnet , FTP etc . These daemons reads the configuration files li...
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Which of the following module type handles loadable system calls including "semaphore" operation?
Sys
pradip_gudle
- Jun 12th, 2008
“semsys” module handle loadable system calls for semaphore, you can view output from following command. # modinfo | grep semaphore
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Which two file systems contain the kernel
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Kernel is a combination of genunix, unix and dynamically loadable modules.#/etc/system ---> Kernel configuration file#/platform/'uname -m'/kernel/sparcv9/genunix ----> ...
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How to create a "snapshot" in solaris ?
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Use the following command. It will help you to create Snapshot while the File system is Currently mounted and system runs at run level 3. #/usr/sbin/fssnap -F ufs -o <options maxsize, minsize ...
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What are the steps you have to enter while installing a new hard disk
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
There are three options to achieve thisOption A:#touch /reconfigure#init 5 (Install the new hard disk)Check with format commandOption B:#devfsadm -C (Clean-up unreferenced device links and finds newl...
anupam_vats
- Dec 17th, 2007
After create the file system. mount the hdd where r u mount, Note: u must enter the entry the file system in /etc/vfstab for automatic mounting when system is booting.
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In Solaris 9 in which run level which file systems are mounted ?
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Run levels0 --> Ok prompt (Forth commands)s or S --> Sinlge user mode with Critical file system mounted (/, /usr and /var)1 --> Single user mode with all file systems mounted2 --> Mu...
kumar_sanjeev
- May 6th, 2008
As per my knowledge runlevels are defined for processes. If it is also for File systems also let me confirm too.
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In which run level NFS deamon will start ?
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zulu
- Feb 10th, 2007
Run level 2 is the first multiuser mode. This run level by default runs the standard UNIX services (telnetd, ftpd, smtp, etc). Run level 3 is the default run level of a given Solaris system. This run ...
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Dev Space
While allocating space in (0 to 7 ) slices if you do not assign any space for /dev, will that cause a problem. A value that indicates how the slice is being used.0 = unassigned1 = boot2 = root3 = swap4 = usr5 = backup6 = stand8 = home
tattoou
- Jul 16th, 2008
This will not cause a problem. The /dev directory will exist in the root file system. Most if not all systems I have seen do not have a /dev filesystem.
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What is function of sccli ?
kalpesh_c_k
- Jul 22nd, 2008
Using Certain sccli Commands to Manage a Sun StorEdge 3510 or 3511 Fiber Channel Array.?
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Open boot is used for?
Running diagnostics
sudhakar362002
- Jul 22nd, 2008
u can set the nvram variable values while system is running.that is the main useand also u can set the device alias names as u wish
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How to configure router in Solaris
suraneni.sowji
- Jul 23rd, 2008
To view the routing table we can user the coomand netstat -rn and to add a route router add default 10.67.13.1.1 ip
malan_in
- Jan 8th, 2008
Enable the network cardConfigureing the ip address and netmak and make the interface status as upConfiguring virtual interfaceconfiguring IP-ForworadingRouter configuration#route add -net 10.0.0.0 -netmask 255.0.0.0 172.40.30.1 1
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Broadcasting and Multicasting
What is the main difference between Broadcasting and Multicasting?
utpalsarkar
- Sep 20th, 2008
Broadcast : Broadcast transmission sends a single copy of data to all hosts in the network.Multicast : Multicast transmission sends a single copy of data to multiple (specified hosts or who are eligible to receive those) hosts in the network.
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Kernal Parameters
How will you tune the kernal parameters? How will you change 32 bit kernal to 64 bit kernal and vice versa?
sgravi05
- Sep 24th, 2008
To boot in 32-bit mode (if not the default):setenv boot-file /kernel/unix(or, if that does not work, use /platform/sun4u/kernel/unix )bootTo boot in 64-bit mode (if not the default):setenv boot-file /...
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