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Users and root can execute the "chgrp" command by default?
True
SA88428
- Sep 27th, 2007
Root can execute chgrp. User can also execute but. He must have permissions on that file
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DISM in Solaris
What is DISM in Solaris
srujan4u
- Oct 2nd, 2008
DISM = Dynamic Intimate Shared memory, which is used to support oracle in Solaris Envirnoment, DISM is only supported from Solaris 9 and above version.Untill Solairs 8, only ISM (Intimate Shared Memor...
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Where is the best place to try to locate patches you may wish to install on your box?
Sunsolve.sun.com
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Aging in Command Line
How will you see aging in command line?
shanmartin84
- Oct 8th, 2008
$ passwd -d shanmartin 2-14-92 14 60 shanmartin is username in order, the date the current password was created, the minimum age, and the maximum age
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ACL -s -m Options
How to use -s and -m in acl ? Give two examples?
Amit Shiknis
- Dec 21st, 2008
HiYou can add acls for user "user1" using folowing command-#setfacl -m u:user1:r--,g:testgroup:r-- File1Thanks,Amit Shiknis
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Route Information
In server where will you find route information?
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Consider the following crontab entry: “59 23 13 * 5 /wipe.disk” What time will this cronjob run?
11:59PM
krishnaraghava
- Feb 2nd, 2009
6 fields in cron tab
1) minute filed ----1-602) hourfiled-----1-243) day of month filed------1-304) month filed-----1-125) week filed-----1-66) command filed----/dec/cosolevmgarg
- Nov 4th, 2008
I will go in more details.On every friday, cron will checkup the date (irrespective of any month).If on friday, the date happens to be 13th,then,at 23:59 wipe.disk will be executed.NOTE:- As per my version, wipe.disk will get executed only on those, fridays that are dated 13th.
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IOSTAT Counter
How will you clear counter of iostat without rebooting the Solaris OS
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Kernal Initialization Files
What are the kernal initialization files?
arohilla
- Mar 25th, 2009
Kernel config file /etc/systemAll module independent files /kernelAll Platform dependent files /platform/"h/w version"/kernelfor intel base it should be i86pcfor sparc it should be sun4u
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User password
How the password get updated in shadow file , though it is having read permission?
utpalsarkar
- Mar 31st, 2009
In /sbin/passwd file SGID is set, reason which we can update the password.
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TOP Command
What is TOP command?
xabiullah
- May 4th, 2009
Top command is a system administrative tool to get the process information.In Solaris 10 OS, TOP does not work. Replaced by 'prstat' command.Additional to the Process table Information, top/prstat com...
amarendrap
- Sep 18th, 2008
Top command is used for checking processor informtionwe can use Prstart instead of TOP command
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Root File System
If root file system is full, how can you resolve it?
siddharthkalra
- May 29th, 2009
Another way to solve this is get a new disk with larger amount of disk space than root, then create a mirror of the root. Once created, detach the mirror. You may edit the vfstab file to mount ...
srujan4u
- Oct 2nd, 2008
If root file system is full, there are two alternates for time being, they are 1. adminstrator can use minfree space and can reduce inode space.# tunefs -m0 / ( / represents root space)2. The second m...
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Disk Label
can you remind what is the meaning of cXtXdXsX?
siddharthkalra
- May 29th, 2009
In the bookish wayc#t#d#s# isc = controllert = targetd = disks = slice Now, to make more clarityI would like to help you with an example but this is not accurate its just for your vizualisation eas...
krishnaraghava
- Jul 15th, 2008
The disk label is the ares set aside for storing information about the disk controller, geometry and slicesanother term used to describe a disk label is the volume table of contents(VTOC)the label dsik means to write slice information on the disk
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What command will display the VTOC for disk c0t0d0s0?
Prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
Rakeshshivashetty
- Jun 13th, 2009
#prtvoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 prtvoc--->Print volume table of contents
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What is the command to check Disk utilisation?
sankar.naru
- Jun 18th, 2009
Df -h (shows interms of GB's)df -k (shows in terms of KB's)du -k (shows the disk usage)
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Public Private Regions
What are Private and Public region?
sankar.naru
- Jun 18th, 2009
Private region is which contains configuration information i.e disk label, disk group name it belongs, disk group id, and configdb (generally this question is related to vxvm)Public region is to store the data.
Deva143
- Feb 18th, 2009
Private region is where all the configuration information is there and public region is where the user data is there (generally its related to VXVM)
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What is the command to create new file system?
sankar.naru
- Jun 18th, 2009
If you want to create UNIX file system there are two waysnewfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0mkfs -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0or if you want to create veritas file systemmkfs -F vxfs (we have to give the path)
jaykanthk
- Nov 7th, 2007
Mkfs -m /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s# this syntax to create a new filesystem. (OR)newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0.
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1.Tell me the files used in Custom Jump Start?2.What is the signal while killing process?3.How to install boot block in solaris?4.What is state database(SVM Solaris)?5.How you create state database?6.How to grow the file system(steps)?7.If root file system filled what you do?8.How you check the logs solaris?9.Raid 1 Mirroring(Explain Mirroring)?10.uptime,top output?11.How to check processor information?12.If password file get corrupted how you restore?
jastiramadevi
- Jul 1st, 2009
1) First the dump OS is created using setup_install_server and add_to_install_server and then edit/etc/hosts. Create sysidcfg, profile, add preinstall and postinstall scripts and then create rules. ...
Vijay.Chaudhary
- Jan 25th, 2008
1. rules, sysidcfg, profile: 3 main files. After that we run addtoinstallclient script with few parameters and it updates /etc/ethers and /etc/bootparams. In the beginning we create a dump of inst...
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On Solaris 8 where is the log file for a failed patch installation stored?
/tmp/log.
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