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List Attributes of Files
If ls -l is not working what other command will you use to see list of attributes of files?
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What field will cause the message Your password has expired to be displayed to the user?
Max change
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ehp_praveen- Member Since Mar-2006 | May 17th, 2006
Hi,The /etc/shadow file contains following fields.Login-id : Which indicates the username of that perticular user.Passwd : It Contains encrypted password.Lastchg : Indicates the number of days between 1-JAN-1970 and last passwd modification date.Min : Contains minimum no of days required between password changes.Max : Contains the maximum no of days the password is valid before the user's propted to enter a passwd at login.Warn : Contains the number of days the user is warn before the password expires.Inactive : Contains the number of inactive days allowed for that user before the user's account is locked.Expire : contains the date when the user account expires once exceeded. The user can no longer log in also it will display the message "Your password has been expired".
roserose1
- Jan 30th, 2010
User's password information will contain /etc/shadow fileunder shadow file "Max chnage" field contain password expired info.
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What directory is used to store the at.allow and at.deny files?
/usr/lib/cron
batas_nep
- Feb 20th, 2007
Both are correct /usr/lib/cron is a link file which is linked with /etc/cron.d/ direcotory
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How will you regain the logins (/etc/passwd) if you have corrupted the file ?
Copy from /etc/opasswd, /etc/oshadow file or by the utility pwconv
srujan
- Dec 25th, 2011
First of all we have to create the file that is /etc/opasswd file that is duplicate of /etc/passwd file, whenever the /etc/passwd file is corrupted we can use the /etc/opasswd file and copy the contents of /etc/opasswd to /etc/passwd and we can use it.
satya.sridevi
- Nov 1st, 2010
Run the command "boot -f failsafe" which takes you to the single user mode and correct the /etc/passwd file bring up the system.
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What does this file /etc/path_to_inst contain and what is the importance of this file?
It contains all the Physical Paths of devices and the instance names. The importance is that if you corrupt any paths while mirroring the disk or for any other reason Then copy from this location
Vasanth Nirmal
- Jun 17th, 2011
For each and every device the system records its physical name and instance name in this file. during system booting kernel read this file for the possible of all devices.this file is maintained by ke...
anishgreysharp
- May 17th, 2011
this file stores instant name all devices in the server if this file corrupted system will not come to multi user mode
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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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What command will cause the system to rebuild the device tree?
boot -r , The other is to type touch /reconfigure, and then reboot
kavikish
- Sep 19th, 2009
touch /reconfigure and then reboot the system. During reboot the new device is detected and also the reconfigure file is removed (or)boot -- -r (from UNIX shell as root user)(or)boot -r (from ok ...
satheeshrsk
- May 7th, 2008
There are 3 ways to achieve rebuilding of device tree after adding a new device:1. touch /reconfigure --> Creation of this file causes the Solaris OS to check for the ...
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List the files in current directory sorted by size
Air-ric
- Jul 10th, 2013
Ls -lh | sort -n
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Why we use / for mount any file system?
anupam_vats
- Mar 25th, 2010
Whatever we want do in Unix, we can start after / because / is the owner of Unix OS.
rajasekar
- Dec 14th, 2006
If i am not Wrong , No need to specify / if the mount point we are going to specify is under the current directory . Please correct me if i am wrong
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What is the difference between UFS and VXFS and advantages of VXFS?
Amit Shiknis
- Dec 10th, 2007
Please have a look at following table for detailed technical specifications for VXFS and UFS file systems- FeatureXFSUFSVxFSNTFSMax FS Size18 million TB1 TB1 TB2 TBMax File Size9 million TB1 TB1 TB2 T...
jaykanthk
- Nov 7th, 2007
UFS :- UFS is having limited inodes. UFS is u can't increase and decrease the volumes and filesystems VXFS:- VXFS is having lot of inodes. VXFS is u can increase and decrease the volumes and filesystem at a time online.
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What is the use of vm.core file?
anthonypra
- Sep 2nd, 2009
First this is not vm.core it is vmcore.X When an operating system crashes, the savecore command is automatically executed during a boot. The savecore command retrieves the crash dump from the du...
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Whenever an Operating systems faces a fatal error it creates dump file by writing some of the memory contents of the kernel in the dump device (Swap device). After the system is rebooted savecore comm...
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Solaris - increase directory size
Which command is used on command line to increase the size of the directory or mount point in sun solaris os?
Vijay.Chaudhary
- Jan 25th, 2008
1. mount . doesn't carry any space. Space is being consumed by the mount path it is reflecting.2. Dir. doesn't carry any space. It even doesn't carry files. It simply carry no. of links of any files and their names.3. Size is increased for various mounted fs.
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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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What is difference between "touch"and "cat" commands
samkrish11
- Apr 20th, 2010
Touch command is used to create an empty file. cat command is used to view the contents of a file.
xabiullah
- May 4th, 2009
1.Touch: If file is already existing, it will update the time stamp. If the file does not ex...
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Add disk space in Solaris
How to add 12GB disk space in Solaris?
Naveennagi
- Sep 19th, 2009
1. Attach empty harddisk to the PC 2. run devfsadm, now the harddisk will be detected in the PC. 3. run format command. a) Select the disk it will show options like 0 or 1 : select your disk there...
xabiullah
- May 4th, 2009
Following are the steps to add 12GB disk space in Solaris: 1. Connect 12GB drive to your system. 2. Execute 'devfsadm' command. - This will automatically load the module for the attached d...
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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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Route Information
In server where will you find route information?
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