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How to create a "snapshot" in solaris ?
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Use the following command. It will help you to create Snapshot while the File system is Currently mounted and system runs at run level 3. #/usr/sbin/fssnap -F ufs -o <options maxsize, minsize ...
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Which two file systems contain the kernel
clyton.a
- Jun 28th, 2008
Kernel is a combination of genunix, unix and dynamically loadable modules.#/etc/system ---> Kernel configuration file#/platform/'uname -m'/kernel/sparcv9/genunix ----> ...
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Which of the following module type handles loadable system calls including "semaphore" operation?
Sys
pradip_gudle
- Jun 12th, 2008
“semsys” module handle loadable system calls for semaphore, you can view output from following command. # modinfo | grep semaphore
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What are deamon and loc manager? Give brief descritions?
sumitkhanna
- Jun 10th, 2008
Daemon is the service provider for any commands like. The Volume Management service is controlled by the /usr/sbin/volddaemon. another example :- Volume Management features automatic detection of CD-R...
bipinbs
- Mar 5th, 2008
DaemonDaemons are nothing but the services which runs at the backend for e.g inetd is the deamon which takes care of all services like telnet , FTP etc . These daemons reads the configuration files li...
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What does "ps'"display when used without options or arguments
sooraj_mohammed
- May 29th, 2008
ps - reports process status Without options, ps prints information about processes that have the same effective user ID and the same controlling terminal...
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What is the command can reconfigure devices with out reboot?
1. devfsadm2. drvconfig
darpanraheja
- May 22nd, 2008
devfsadm coomand is used to reconfigure devices For solaris 10 devfsadmd daemons is running for the same.
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What are the basic elements of PROM and NVRAM?
PROM= Post, Generic Device Drivers, User Interface, Default Parameters NVRAM= Eeprom, Time of Day, Ehternet Addss, Hostid & Battery
krishnaraghava
- May 22nd, 2008
NVRAM1.important hardware element2.removable chip is often located on the main system board3.contains EEPROM4.EEPROM stores user -configured parameters that have been changed or customized...
Sampath Kumar
- Aug 17th, 2006
NVRAMNonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) is a special kind of RAM that retains data when the computer is turned off or there is a power failure. It is powered by a battery within the computer. It can also work by...
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What is the difference between a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all?
Probe-scsi probes for local/onboard devices/peripherals off the onboard SCSI controller whilst probe-scsi-all identifies all devices attached to the onboard/local controller and separate Sbus , PCI controllers if present.
krishnaraghava
- May 21st, 2008
ok probe-scsi” To identify the devices attached to the on-board SCSI controller ok probe-scsi-all” To identify the devices attached to the on-board SCSI controller and all peripheral devices attached to separate SBus or PCI SCSI controllers
Jonty Marnoch
- Jun 15th, 2006
Hi,both these commands are run at obp (open boot Prom) probe-scsi will probe the internal scsi and probe-scsi-all will probe both internal and external scsi. Maybe not the best explanation but not bad...
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When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for user name and password.What could be the reason and what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem?
krishnakumarNair
- May 14th, 2008
We need to check /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow and we need to check /var/adm/loginlog
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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 are the different phases in boot process?
PROM phase (post boot device loads boot block sector 0) Boot program phase (boot program loads ufsboot) Kernel Initialisation Phase (reads and initialises /etc/system start init process rc scripts)
satheeshrsk
- May 7th, 2008
1. Boot PROM Phase2. Boot Programs Phase 3. Kernel Initialization Phase4. init Phase5. svc.startd Phase
sankar_4site
- May 15th, 2006
Boot phases of Solaris Operating Environment are:1.boot PROM2.boot programs like bootblk,ufsboot 3.kernel initialization like loading modules4. init phase
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What is the difference between reboot and init 6
satheeshrsk
- May 7th, 2008
"init 6" performs reboot in a clean and orderly manner,informing the svc.startd daemon of the change in runlevel,which subsequently achieves the appropriate milestone and ultimately executes...
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What is the command for Install any software like oracle in Unix/Solaris? Why am I not getting colors while installing solaris9 even though it displays colors during test of KDM configuration?How to install solaris9 in NON GUI mode?
bipinbs
- Mar 5th, 2008
Here are some few steps to install oracle.1) first u create a seperate partition.2) create a new filesystem for created partition2) mount the file system3) create are user called oracle4) allocate tha...
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What is significant about Generic_108528-nn?
This denotes the kernel update patch level/operating system version residual on the server
bipinbs
- Mar 5th, 2008
It is nothing but the Generic is the kernel patch and nn refers to the version of the patch.
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Change the date of sun solaris.
how we change sun solaris system date from "Thu Jan 31 18:26:28 IST 2008"... to "Thu Jan 31 06:26:28 PM IST 2008".....i mean 24 hours format to 12 format so we u run the command date u will get the desired output
Amit Shiknis
- Feb 19th, 2008
On a solaris system you could do this:date +%rOr you can modify following file-/usr/bin/date [-u] [[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS]HH will be the hour number format of 24hours and 12 hours.Thanks,Amit Shiknis
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What file controls system wide password aging?
/etc/default/passwd
shyam gopal
- Mar 23rd, 2006
/etc/shadow
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Raid Policies
Writing speed in which raid level is faster among raid 0 striping and raid 5
casemanager
- Jan 30th, 2008
Write speed will be faster in case of Raid 0 as for Raid 5 it will also have to calculate the parity.
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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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What is difference between ACL and CHMOD
kovelkar
- Oct 18th, 2007
chmod we will uset to give the permisions on files or folders..ACL to give permission on a file more than one group or users from diffrent groups and we can customise the permissions type..
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