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Vi editor User
How will you deny a user to use Vi editor in Solaris?
samkrish11
- Apr 20th, 2010
Ideally not possible. Need to use ACL (access control list) RBAS role based security system can be used.
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Solaris Patching
What is patching in Solaris?
UncaAlby
- Apr 20th, 2010
Patching is the process whereby you repair bugs or add new features in the system. Sun keeps a repository of patches based on the hardware and release level, and you should review that repositor...
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Migrate File Systems
How to migrate file systems from one server to another server in Solaris?
UncaAlby
- Apr 20th, 2010
If it's not a bootable file system, it's pretty straightforward.I'm assuming that by "migrate" you mean to completely remove a disk from one machine to put into another. If...
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In order to save a template in /etc/format.dat, what two steps must occur?
Name & save
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The hardware-level user interface that you see before the operating system has been started is called:
Open boot
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What file controls global variables for system wide values for the Bourne Shell?
/etc/profile
samson12satish
- May 23rd, 2010
You can find this file /.profile. You can change the global variable for the system wide values.
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What command can you use to display all of your groups?
Id -a , groups
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Decommission Solaris Server
How to decommission a Solaris Server?
shamithlal
- Jun 22nd, 2010
That was a cool answer to unplug...What if that was a server with NIS/Storage connected.For a decom, you should first check for the active services on the server.something likeps -aef | grep -i ypfor ...
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What is the command for seeing a long listing of all the processes running on your unix box?
Ps -ef
shamithlal
- Jun 22nd, 2010
"ps -aef" must be good I guess..For some services known you would use something like below..ps -aef | grep -lp ... lpd daemon would be running for printer servicesps -a...
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RAID1 breaking mirrior
explain RAID1 breaking mirrior .and if i break raid 1 mirrior what is position of data?
callid
- Aug 26th, 2010
First, identify the failed disk. Second, detach the submirror corresponding to failed disk using the following commands. #metadetach -f d01 d1 -- unmirrors / #metadetach d23 ...
srujan4u
- Oct 2nd, 2008
is very difficult task for administrator, First identify the second disk which is mirrored, and use the following command# metadetach d01 d1 - unconfigures ro...
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Half Duplex to Full Duplex
What is half-duplex and full-duplex?How to check whether the network is full-duplex or half-duplex?
How to change from half-duplex to full-duplex?krishnaraghava
- Sep 13th, 2010
EDIT THE /etc/system fileand add below lines and restart the system 1=Enable0=Disableset hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap=1set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=0set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
aj_jjude
- Jun 23rd, 2009
Half Duplex is one way transmission and Full duplex means two way.To get the details:#ndd -get /dev/<device logical name> link_speedoutput 1 means full duplex and 0 means half duplexTo set:#ndd -set /dev/<device logical name> link_speed 0|1
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Server Breakdown During Backup
Server goes down when you are taking backup. What will you do?
krishnaraghava
- Sep 13th, 2010
If you system is full crashed , you have previous root backup with you then only you can restrore the root data i think this correct answer if any answer pls post
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How swap memory can be allocated to certain process ..what is command to give swap space to certain process?
Kranthidas
- Dec 14th, 2010
Sorry it is not possible to allocate some swap memory to a particulat process. But you can give priority to a particular process by using this command "nice" so that the process gets executed first.
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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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IP Config
How will you configure IP once the machine was installed with OS?
ranga4u
- Dec 29th, 2010
If we configuration ip we need to add the host names in three files/etc/hosts/etc/nodename/etc/hostname.ce0 (network interfacename)
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All group memberships are stored in the /etc/group file?
False
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Where is the information stored about all the packages installed on your system at the present time?
/var/sadm/install/contents
anishgreysharp
- May 16th, 2011
All the installed packages are stored under /var/sadm/pkgall the installed, upgraded, or uninstalled package information will update /var/sadm/install/contents
Vijay.Chaudhary
- Jan 25th, 2008
/var/sadm/pkg/var/sadm/patch //which pkgs. has this patch updated/var/sadm/system/admin/......
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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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Where is the location of the logging that is done about the switching of users using the "su" command?
/var/adm/sulog
anishgreysharp
- May 16th, 2011
/var/adm/sulog is the file which is responsible for recording the the switch user information..../etc/default/su is the file which contain the file path responsible for recording switch users
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What file do you put the unmask setting in?
anishgreysharp
- May 16th, 2011
The main purpose of user mask value is to give security to the file and directories.the default umask value is 022. which is stored under /etc/profile
sridhar_madadi
- Sep 23rd, 2005
The UMASK value for bourne and korn shell users can be modified system wide by editing the "umask" entry in the "/etc/profile" file. To change the default UMASK for the C shell, modify the UMASK variable in "/etc/default/login" file.
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