Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems (currently owned by Oracle) as a rebranding of SunOS 4.1.x in 1991.
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How to check whether firewall opened for a port but not listening on the port
We will be deploying a new application to a Server and the application will be listening on port 8443. We have asked Network team to open the firewall for the port 8443 on that server before deploying ...
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boot_archive file in solaris
Does anyone know what is that boot_archive file. It is located under /platform/sun4v/
/platform/sun4v> du -sh * | sort -rn
342M boot_archive ****
190M failsafe
106K lib
71K bootlst
12M ...
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Execute command on shared account login
At work our team uses a shared account "appadmin" to administer our application. At login, each one of us sources an "aliasrc" file containing his or her preferences. (aliases, display, prompt, ...).
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What process is sending TCP SYNs on Solaris 10?
Some process on my Solaris 10 machine is sending TCP SYNs to a remote machine. The remote machine never responds, so the connection is not established. How do I find out what process is initiating ...
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How can I check which terminal definitions are available?
The bulk of the question is in title, but to elaborate a little:
On most Linuxes I can find /usr/share/terminfo -type f. But on Solaris machine I have nearby - this directory doesn't even exist.
I ...
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How to find the machine from which a user logged into current machine using ssh?
In a multi server architecture, is it possible to find out from which machine a user logged into current machine using ssh?
For example, user1 logged into host1. From there, the user logged into ...
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Using nohup on Solaris 10
I need to transfer a large number of files over SFTP (only between Solaris servers) which takes a very long time. I cannot keep my PC on for this duration. I tried:
nohup sftp server1
While the ...
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Solaris default install (user tools)
Many questions on this forum as well as other places really boils down to somebody coming from Linux environment and then not being able to use the equivalent command on Solaris. Often this is because ...
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Why does sendmail work differently in different shells?
The following code works when I directly run it in bash shell:
SUBJECT="SUBJECT-"`date`;
MAIL_FROM="abc@site.com";
MAIL_TO="abc@site.com";
MAIL_CC="abc@site.com";
MAIL_FILE="/path/of/html/body.html";
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Startup script not executing after reboot on Solaris
I have a command to start Apache in /etc/rc3.d that does not execute when the server reboots. The script is named S75Apache2. Someone has speculated that this is because the link has a capital "A" ...
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Unix - how to get hostname along with domain name
In unix (Solaris) is there any command that returns the hostname and domain name together?
For instance:
hostname -> servername
domainname -> us.xyz.com
I need : servername.us.xyz.com
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How to enable (format) a disk in SunOS then add it to a DiskGroup?
SERVER # vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c1t1d0s2 auto:none - - ...
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Solaris swap allocation with mlocked shared memory
I'm having a hard time understanding how Solaris 10 x86 swap allocations work in the
presence of mlocked share memory.
I wrote a small program that:
Gets a 1G SHM segment (shmget)
Attaches it to ...
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Java process, swap (/proc Solaris10) memory highly utilized
How can I analyze high swap memory utilization of Solaris 10 for Java processes?
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How to lock on Solaris 10?
On Linux I use flock lock command to execute a command with an exclusive lock.
What is the standard operating system command of Solaris 10 to do the same in a shell?
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How to change default log location of SMF registered processes
I am trying to change default log location ( var/svc/logs/) of each and every SMF registered processes and append to particular file (/opt/smf.log).
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Solaris 11 randomly crashed
I have a Solaris 11 machine that randomly crashed this morning. After physically restarting the machine, I noticed that all of the drives were marked with a Sense Key: Soft_Error both in dmesg and in ...
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Why are the UIDs in Solaris so very high? Is it alright to use lower numbers?
I'm going to try out Solaris 11, and was wondering why the default UIDs for new users are so ridiculously high - e.g. starting at 65534 and then dropping downwards (65533, 65532, ...)? Is there a good ...
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Detecting multihomed machine
Is there a way to reliably detect whether or not a machine is multihomed? I'd like to be able to write a script that will return a true or false regarding that information. Thanks.
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Warnings about read-only filesystems while installing a solaris package
I have a solaris machine that I am trying to install Perl 5.12 as well as gcc and make to get CPAN working. I downloaded the packages from sun freeware, and was able to install gcc. When I tried to ...
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Solaris service status and dependencies
I'm creating service manifests for MySQL and a WebLogic service that depends on the MySQL service. I want all of them to use the management model "wait" (run a process in the foreground). I have some ...
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Solaris 10 boot from cd-rom
I am trying to start up my solaris server using the newly downloaded iso written on a CD.
The iso name is sol-10-u9-ga-sparc-dvd.iso
When we started the server, logging in as root then tried to boot ...
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stty: : Invalid argument
I am telnet-ing into a Solaris machine and I'm getting the above error with my scripts. I realize this is a common problem, and the solution is to check for the line 'stty erase ^H' within my profile, ...
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How to trace a process to original user?
Say, on a Solaris server, user1 logs in, switches to someother user, say sruser, using su - and then starts a process of id X. And then another user user2 logs in, switches to sruser the same way and ...
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ls and vim color on SunOS 5.8/Solaris 8
I want to use ls and vim with color on Sunos 5.8
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500
I have installed ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 and vim 7.2
In ~/.cshrc:
setenv TERM sun-color ...
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Use all system memory in Solaris
I am doing server testing and intentionally trying to crash a virtual Solaris server by using all memory. Server has a ulimit of 15 GB (several hundred GB of total system/swap memory). Is there a ...
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filesystem image mounted with lofiadm looks smaller than expected
I have a .gz file and I'd like to see the content of it. I used lofiadm to mount it.
lofiadm /backup/file.gz ->> returned /dev/lofi/1
mount -F ufs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
Then I checked the content ...
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Do Solaris 10 and 11 still use slab allocation for their kernel memory allocator
If not, what do they use. Please provide a source.
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Can i update my commands( like awk,sed) to the latest release in solaris?
bash-3.00# awk '{print NR}' f1.txt
1
2
3
4
but FNR does not print anything.
awk '{print FNR}' f1.txt
the above line does not gives me any output,seems that the awk that i am having
in my ...
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Is there any impact of reaping zombie processes?
I will execute following command for reaping zombie
/usr/bin/preap $(ps -ef | grep defunct | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs)
Is there any service impact of this approach ?
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Solaris disk failed, how to remove it?
I have a system with Solaris 10. One of the internal disks is broken:
c0t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk1_1 rootdg online c0t0d0s2 -
c0t1d0s2 auto - ...
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Is crontab related to server performance?
I am using Solaris 10, and I am adding many cronjobs to my server's crontab.
Currently I have 30 cronjobs in my crontab.
one cronjob takes 8 hours to complete ,one other cron job takes 5 hours to ...
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Shell Script Certification
I'm a UNIX shell script programmer, and I would like to know if there is any certification specific for Shell (bash, korn,etc) programmers.
Also how about CX-310-105 exam to take Oracle Solaris ...
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“Access denied” when logging to Solaris virtual machine using ssh
I have got a Solaris 10 on a VMware virtual machine in Windows. This is what I did:
1) Installed PuTTY.
2) Checked whether ssh is running or or not in my Solaris desktop as below:
bash-3.00# ps ...
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`solaris + xargs command for solaris
the command
find /tmp -name 'core*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0
works fine on Linux,
but xargs -0 option is not legal on Solaris
what is the equivalent option ( xargs? ) for Solaris 10
second ...
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solaris 10 + display 2 lines after match by grep?
I want to match for example:
The string e1000g0 from the lltconfig -a list , and then to display the two lines after the string e1000g0
so I get only the lines:
Node 0 du1a : ...
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What are the dangers of setting a high limit to max File Descriptors per process?
I'm working on an old legacy application, and I commonly come across certain settings that no one around cam explain.
Apparently at some point, some processes in the application were hitting the max ...
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Can't add swap file on solaris
I'm trying to add a swap file on Solaris 10. I have already created a 2GB file swap.file. Then, I add a swap file with the command:
swap -a /swap.file
which shows an error:
/swap.file: size is ...
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How to bind emacs abort to key
This is from a .el file loaded in my .emacs file. What do you think?
;;; Sun keyboard bindings
;; the below line does not work:
;; when <cancel> is pressed, the minibuffer echoes "Quit"
;; but ...
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Solaris zone removal and transformation
I have a Solaris server which has two zones on it. I need to remove one zone and change the remaining zone into the server's main operating system.
What is the best way to do this?
I was thinking ...
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Shell scripts Linux -> Solaris conversion guide
I've developed a few Bash scripts on a LFS system which should now be made to work on a minimal installation of Sun Solaris 10. Is there a guide somewhere with at least some general tips for ...
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SSH Do not connect even with publickeys installed
I'm trying to connect two servers. I got the id_dsa.pub key from user john from server A and paste into authorized_keys of user mike from server B.
Then I tried to connect from server A to server B ...
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Can not find link to download OpenSolaris source code
I want to understand how OpenSolaris ptools(process tools) works. How exactly pstack, pmap, pargs etc works, but I can't find any link to its full source code. I can only find an online version of ...
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Prompt “-bash-3.2$” vs. “bash-3.2$” in SunOS 5.10
When I log into a server running SunOS 5.10, my prompt initially is "-bash-3.2$"
Then when I run the following commands, I can see that the prompt is slightly different after typing bash (it no ...
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Filesystem type on Solaris 5.10
How can I get the file system type for each device on Solaris 5.10? I tried mount with no args but that only listed each mount point, similar to df.
Also, how can I find where a specific directory ...
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How to delete a range of mails in Solaris using the 'mail' command?
I have some 1k+ mails in an inbox (old cronjob stdout), how to delete them in bulk?
I'm on Solaris 8 and I have only mail available, no pine or mutt or similar "UI"-based client.
Inline help and ...
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Per Socket network Buffer queues utilization
Is there a way to get a per-socket send and receive Queues utilization on Solaris similar to the way that Linux' netstat displays it?
Example on Linux:
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address ...
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Is there any handy command line tool to manage Cron jobs?
Would someone suggest any handy command line (NOT web) tool or script which adds, enables and disables Cron jobs? I am looking, for example, for the following (or similar) behavior:
sh manageCron.sh ...
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Does Solaris have an equivalent to /etc/ld.so.conf?
I compiled a package for Solaris 11 Express that has some library dependencies, which I also compiled from source and installed in the usual /usr/local. (And Solaris doesn't even have /usr/local ...
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How do find the LDAP connection details that the Solaris box uses to authenticate users?
The Solaris box is configured to use LDAP and has no local user accounts.
This is the output of the nsswitch.conf file:
bash-3.2$ less /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files [NOTFOUND=continue] ldap
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