Instance

anishgreysharp

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• May 16th, 2011

Instant name is calle kernal abbreviated name for all connected hardware, these instant name varies according to the hardware manufacturer. all these instant name is stored under /etc/path_to_inst file note: if /etc/path_to_inst file is deleted or corrupted system will not come to multi user mode

krishnaraghava

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• Jun 21st, 2008

instance names are abbreviated names assigned by the kernel for each device on the systeman instance name is a shortened name for the physical  device nameexample:sd n: where sd is a disk name an...

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Crontab -l, -l

anishgreysharp

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• May 17th, 2011

Crontab -l: display all the cronjobs which are scheduled crontab -r delete all crontab file for the specified user crontab -e: to edit the crontab file

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Newfs –N /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s5 (or any other slice)Fsck –o b= /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s5

prasanthi

• Dec 23rd, 2005

Well you can also just use the #FSCK -N /dev.dsk/c0t2d0s5 to get the back up block number and then using one of the numbers that display #FSCK -F ufs -o b=32 can be executed.

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What is the importance of NIS? What is the need of NIS?

siddharthkalra

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• 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

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• 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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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

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• 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

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• 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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How to install a Boot Block in Solaris 10?

krishnaraghava

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• Sep 13th, 2010

Installboot /usr/platform/'uname-i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

kamalli.ha

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• Apr 17th, 2010

#installboot /usr/platform/sun4u/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

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How to recover corrupted GRUB in Solaris 10 ?

Abdul Shameer

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• Jun 24th, 2011

/usr/sbin/installboot pboot bootblk raw-disk-device

utahboni

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• Jul 1st, 2010

Reinstall using installgrub.

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List some of the Solaris Admin Real Time issues that you have faced in your company

srinivasch46

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• Jul 12th, 2011

Thanks for ur posting,can u please tel me about remedy,bigbrother tools

vggaddam

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• Jul 30th, 2010

1) Check the status of all the servers (Health Check) (We are using nagios tool  to monitor, CPU,Memory,Processes,Services,DiskSpace) and fix the warning alerts raised on the previous day.There w...

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/etc/default/login

david

• Jul 15th, 2011

But during rsh ....your suggestion is not helpful....what is the next...???

senthilkumar

• Jun 4th, 2007

Please try to edit /etc/default/loginExample:# vi /etc/default/login# CONSOLE=/dev/console (Insert a comment on this line):wq! You can telnet from anywhere in the network/

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SOLARIS

• Jul 21st, 2011

Tunefs command

casemanager

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• Jan 30th, 2008

You can either increase the size of file system using growfs or you can take the backup up the file system and then use the followign command:-`newfs -i <nbpi> <other newfs parameters> to ...

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Sulog

Vishal Madamwar

• Aug 30th, 2011

SULOG determines the location of the file used to log all su attempts.

SULOG=/var/adm/sulog.

anishgreysharp

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• May 17th, 2011

We can find all switched log information in /var/adm/sulog

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When we gave df -k command, from where is the information fetched? Explain the name and path of the file Where the information is stored?

Vishal Madamwar

• Sep 4th, 2011

The df-k command to display the amount of disk space used for file system in Kbytes format. It fetches the information from /etc/mnttab.

This command does not work on a partition without a file system, but does work on a partition with an unmounted file system.

manwerjalil

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• Jan 15th, 2010

There are many ways to fetch the list of currently-mounted-devices: read the files ... But after we inspected it on Linux & Solaris the information fetch from (/etc/mnttab).

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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

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• 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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Rajasekhar

• Sep 17th, 2011

Ndd -get, to show the network cards, in Solaris 8, second question with "prtdiag" command.

masenu

• Jul 18th, 2011

Chaithu is correct ..i think first identify no.of network interface cards available using #dladm show-dev command and display nic e1000g0 is primary and e1000g1 secondary.........

if it wrong give the correct answer

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M PRASAD

• Sep 20th, 2011

Ipcs -m

smallsre

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• Jun 26th, 2010

For Solaris, "ipcs -m".  Follow man pages for additional viewing options.

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ashutosh

• Dec 14th, 2011

Code
 
telnet <ip> <port>
 

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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

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• 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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How to check Solaris Volume Manager Version in 9 & 10? Which are the packages that are installed in the SVM?

Nabhan

• Jan 14th, 2012

These are some packages install for SVM SUNWmdr - Solaris Volume Manager driver SUNWmdu - Solaris Volume Manager commands SUNWmdx - Solaris Volume Manager drivers (64-bit) SUNWlvma - S...

somesh_p

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• Oct 13th, 2009

You don't have to install any additional packages. It comes in-build with Solaris 10 operating system

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Nabhan

• Jan 15th, 2012

It is dependent upon the model, we can have the information from oracle portal

rsivareddy

• Jun 6th, 2007

We can connect upto 106 CPU in Sun machine.

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Nabhan

• Jan 15th, 2012

1. default route should be mentioned in the /etc/defaultrouter with an ip address from the other subnet mentioned in the box from you are pinging. 2. routing should be enabled between the subnets on ...

Suresh Krishnan

• Feb 27th, 2007

default router should be added.create /etc/defaultrouter with gateway ipand give the following commandroute add default 

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