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Importance of NIS
What is the importance of NIS? What is the need of NIS?
siddharthkalra
- May 29th, 2009
Well, NIS is important because, in a large network environment it is not a good idea to put user credentials in all of them, that is to say, there is a network of 50 sun servers, now if a new user is ...
chandue
- Dec 24th, 2008
NIS is used to centralize all network admin information in one system. like passwd,hosts,groups, shadow etc
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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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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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Solaris Administration System Message
Which command is used to check System Messages?
samkrish11
- Apr 20th, 2010
The system messages are checked in /var/adm/messages /var/adm/messages.0/var/adm/messages.1
kukanmani
- Sep 29th, 2008
The "dmesg" command is uset to check the System messages. This command just read and reflect the contents of /var/adm/messages file.
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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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Work Station Crash
Work Station crashes suddenly, How will you retrieve data?
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How to recover when bootblock is corrupted ?
Vishal Madamwar
- Sep 12th, 2011
When bootblock get corrupted, you will get message as: Boot load failed. The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. This is for SPARC machine ok> boot cdrom -s # newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s...
sasikumar12
- Dec 12th, 2008
Ok boot cdrom - s#mount /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /a#cd /usr/platform/uname-m/lib/fs/ufs#installboot bootblk /a /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0d0#cd /#umount /a#init5
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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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When would you want to reconfigure the kernel and how would you do it?
BIKACH
- May 28th, 2015
In order to install critical applications. we can create a backup of /etc/system file before editing.
Jeffd
- Aug 17th, 2012
Is Solaris the kernel is Dynamic as it is System V. We do not configure the kernel per say, we download and install a newer version. Saying that, we can modify the /etc/system file and adjust parameters like Oracle Memory, ensure tape drive device drivers get loaded, ect...
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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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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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In the /etc/default/login file, which of the following will not allow you to login remotely as root?
CONSOLE=
Navneet
- Mar 28th, 2012
#vi /etc/default/login
# CONSOLE=/dev/console (Only root can login)
CONSOLE=/dev/console (normal user can login and after that can do switch as root but directly root cant login from remote)
encore
- Mar 10th, 2010
Open, #vi /etc/default/profilego to 18th line, and comment the line CONSOLE=/dev/console to: #CONSOLE=/dev/consoleNow you can do telnet to remote pc as Root admin
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How to install win xp after installing solaris for dual booting?
sreeram0403
- Dec 17th, 2007
if you want to operate 2 OS's then you should install XP first after solaris, why because XP will over right boot record of Solaris, so you can not get boot menu, and if you install solaris after ...
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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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What type of names are used for administering disk drives in Solaris environment
satish51392111
- Mar 12th, 2012
There are 3 types of device names: 1. Logical device names: Present in /dev and are soft links to physical device names in /devices. Used in command line (i.e., while...
Vasu Rao
- Feb 2nd, 2012
C#t#d#s#
1.c# Controller number
2.t# Target number -- actually disk number
3.d# Disk number -- always d0 for SCSI disks.
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Install Boot Block
How to install a Boot Block in Solaris 10?
krishnaraghava
- Sep 13th, 2010
Installboot /usr/platform/'uname-i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
Solaris Admin Interview Questions
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