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 can I check what version of the VI editor I have?
How can I check what version of the vi editor I have? What's the best way to upgrade it or install vim on Solaris?
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Get a list of users with access to the host
I tried to go into /home and list all the subdirectories but it seems that all dirs that are not mine are hidden. I also tried cat /etc/passwd but that didn't list my very own ID I was logged in ...
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Copying only differences?
I want to recursively copy one directory over another, however I only want to copy differences. The reason is that I'm doing this on Solaris on a volume which is snapshot, i.e. if I'm copying 100gig ...
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sed/awk/perl - delete spaces between two strings/words + solaris 10
please advice how to delete the spaces between "=" to the value/string ( after the "=" character) , should be implemented by awk or sed or perl command and command must to fit for solaris OS , ( ...
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Changing the IP Address in Solaris 11
I am trying to change the IP address in Solaris, but am failing to do so.
The IP address needs to be a fixed number, like 10.0.11.10
I have tried changing the IP address in /etc/hosts which I ...
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What's the meaning of NP and UP in the password field of the shadow file
I found some entries in a shadow file whose meaning I don't understand.
user:UP:::::::
user1:NP:::::::
What does UP and NP mean? In addition to those 2, the same shadow file has the normal hashed ...
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access rights of a file in octal format
I wonder if there is command which will give you access rights of any file you provide.
There stat related command but it is not accessible in solaris.
stat -c %a /etc/passwd
Is there any ...
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Comparing two directories in different servers
We copy our production code and data files to a testing server on a weekly basis.
It can take hours, and sometimes it hasn't finished.
What is the best method to confirm that the directories have ...
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ls -ld /dir, Solaris [duplicate]
Always when I run ls -ld /dir the output give me the size = 512 even if there are files in it or not.
but when I run du -sh the output give me the actual size of the directory including its content.
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Delete n minutes old file in solaris
Can some one please tell me how to delete n minutes old files in Solaris? My find does not -mmin option.
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print last field from line + alternative for awk
Due to technical reason on my Solaris machine, I can't use awk in order to print the last field in line.
What are the other alternatives to awk that print the last field from line (using cut or tr ...
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tr command not working with octal sequences
I need to strip non-ASCII characters off a file. I was using the command -
/usr/xpg4/bin/tr -cd '\0-\177' <non-ASCII_file.dat >ASCII_file.dat
Though it worked in the past, it is not ...
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Set global environment variables at boot in Solaris 11
I am wanting to create a file in Solaris, so that I can export a few "items" whenever the machine is started up.
i.e.
I want to export ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID and some other directories, of my ...
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RAID 1 + 0, Solaris 10
I create the meta devices:
metainit d102 1 1 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s6
metainit d103 1 1 /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s6
metainit d104 1 1 /dev/dsk/c1t4d0s6
metainit d105 1 1 /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s6
then I make the mirrors ...
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Solaris + display file time stamp [year][month][day]
I have Solaris 10 machine
I need to verify time stamp of some file in my Solaris machine
And to get the following format
[year][month][day]
Example of working command on Linux
ls -l ...
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solaris + fit egrep for solaris
On Linux machines I use this syntax, in order to match all VALID ip's.
My question: what needs to change for egrep command in order to run the egrep on Solaris?
According to egrep manual page "-o" ...
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What is the difference between cmask and umask?
What is the difference between the umask setting that can be found in /etc/profile and the cmask setting that can be found in /etc/default/init?
What is the difference between the two? When will one ...
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Solaris SPARC 10 32bit mode
I'm looking for a definitive answer, does Solaris 10 running on a SPARC machine support booting into 32bit mode?
I've found one site that states Solaris 8 was the last version that supported booting ...
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Help understanding `find` syntax on Solaris
Consider the following files:
$ find findtest
findtest
findtest/test1
findtest/test1/start.ksh
findtest/test2
findtest/test2/start.ksh
findtest/test3
findtest/test3/start.ksh
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what is inode for, in FreeBSD or Solaris
I know a little about linux kernel. BUt for Freebsd, the "vnode" actually is similar to the "inode" in Linux kernel.
And there is a "inode" concept in FreeBSD or Solaris.
So my question is: what is ...
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Apache server doesn't start when mod_sm.so is loaded
I have an Apache 1.3 on a Sun machine (SunOS 5.10 Generic_138888-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000). If I keep the following two lines in httpd.conf, the server will not start:
LoadModule sm_module ...
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Remap Caps_Lock to Control in Solaris
I'm having the hardest time trying to understand how xmodmap works. I want to remap the Caps Lock key to Control.
In an attempt to emaulate the answers shown here, I created the file .xmodmaprc:
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How to shut down or reboot a machine? [on different OSes]
What parameters do the "shutdown" command [or other command?] NEED, TO BE SURE that the machine reboots or shuts down for SURE?
e.x.: version for Linux:
# cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux ...
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Solaris - get a list of the commands run at startup/boot?
Is there any way of seeing a list of commands that were run at startup/boot on Solaris?
I know there is a network drive being mounted at startup but I wanted to see the exact 'mount ...' command ...
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How to properly use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -F
I have a problem producing filtering out hanzoMollusc (2)from my grep.
https://node.hanzo.com/production/application/ (1)
https://node.hanzoMollusc.com/Messaging/Receiver (2)
My grep command is ...
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Why does dladm rename-link fail with “invalid argument”?
I am running Solaris 11.1 (in a VM) and have two NICs installed.
At a root console, if I type dladm show-phys, it lists net0 and net1 and some info for each.
I want to name the links more ...
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Linux + Solaris how to verify the last execute process from list of process
I need advice:
How to verify which is the last scan_sys.sh process that run in my linux or solaris ?
my target is to kill all scan_sys.sh process , except the latest scan_sys.sh ( the last execute ...
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EMC storage + powercf command + powerpath
When I run powercf -q on my Solaris machine, what changes does this command do on the EMC storage, or on Solaris file system?
From manual page:
DESCRIPTION
During system boot on Solaris hosts, ...
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AES-NI accelerated ZFS v31 encryption in Solaris 11
I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask this, if not, feel free to migrate it to wherever it fits in.
I'm testing the encryption feature in ZFS v31 in a Solaris 11.11.11 VM under ESXi ...
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Display all network interfaces on Solaris
On Linux, the command mii-tool displays the list of Ethernet interfaces and other information. What equivalent command existson Solaris? My goal is to view all LAN networks that my Solaris machine is ...
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File size :size of content and what is seen different
Assume you have a file 342MB but when you get into that file and look the content of it; you see that everything occupy around 92 MB. No hidden file or any other thing exist on it.
How can that be ...
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High load average, low CPU usage - why?
We're seeing huge performance problems on a web application and we're trying to find the bottleneck. I am not a sysadmin so there is some stuff I don't quite get. Some basic investigation shows the ...
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Installing individual packages from Solaris .iso
I need to update the following packages:
SUNWjaf
SUNWjato
SUNWjmail
I read that the updated versions of these packages can be found on the latest version of Solaris, and that it's possible to just ...
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linux + match IP ADDRESS with 3 octets or with 4 octets
how to match IP address with 4 octets or with 3 octets in one command?
target - match xxx.xxx.xxx or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( syntax should fit for Linux and Solaris )
how to merge the following commands ...
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Nexenta (Solaris), strange user membership from LDAP
Anybody help me, why do run id command in the Nexenta OS (Solaris+Ubuntu), i get different result?
a_ay@nexenta:/etc$ id -G
513 512 1000 201 203 1010 1013 1019 1020 1036 1039 1040 1041 1045 1046 1047
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How many reboots are required for updating Solaris 10 update 8 to update 10?
The Oracle Live Upgrade document* states that these patches need to be done before doing the LiveUpgrade:
*Document 1004881.1, "Solaris 10 5/08 (Update 5) or later:"
119254-LR Install and Patch ...
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Can you mount UFS partitions made in Solaris (Sparc) on Solaris (x86)?
I am reading about Endianness and it seems both systems save their data differently.
Sparc uses big endian and x86 uses small endian, meaning the byte order is different.
That makes me wonder... is ...
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scp recursively directories on SunOS
I have encountered a small issue with SCP (and also rsync). I need to copy certain files from server A (running SunOS 5.8) to server B (running SunOS 5.10).
First, I get the list of files (several ...
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NIS+ Solaris 10, Master Server Setup
this is my first time with NIS+ Naming Service.
I want to configure my host to be a master root server using this script
/usr/lib/nis/nisserver -r -d doc.com.
And I got this error:
> ...
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Default value for SO_RCVTIMEO option on Solaris
Is there any way to find out what is the default value set for option SO_RCVTIMEO on Solaris 10?
If there is a way to find out how would one go about changing it?
P.S. I am aware of ability of ...
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Make Apache view hidden files (Solaris)
Is it possible to make an Apache server like this
Apache/1.3.41 Server at user.it.uu.se Port 80
display hidden files (i.e., those who start with a dot) in a specific directory? I have some ...
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ifconfig + FAILED from ifconfig on solaris machines
please advice - what the meaning of FAILED word from ifconfig command
Dose its mean that network from NIC isn't stable until this moment ?
Not clearly if ifconfig read network status each some mili ...
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luxadm disp equivalent for Red Hat?
Is there an equivalent to:
luxadm disp *disk*
for Red Hat? I need to check that all the device address to the SAN are ONLINE for a certain disk.
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What File Transferring Method (i.e. FTP) Can I Use for rlogin (Solaris 8 on SPARC)
For all my other Unix Virtual Machines, I use SSH and I use WinSCP to transfer files from my Windows Vista machine to the VM's.
Now, One of the VM's is using rlogin, What can I use to transfer files ...
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Does Android SDK work in Solaris?
I want to compile my Android app in a Solaris server. Though, from Android Developers all I can see are Windows/MacOS/Linux versions. Does anyone know if I can install and use the Linux binaries in a ...
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Unable to use scp on Solaris
I'm trying to use scp from one Solaris machine to another, but I get this message and the copy fails:
root@ark123 # scp -r emcgrab_SunOS_v4.4.4a.tar 192.163.119.21:/tmp
Password:
Sourcing ...
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How do I set Keyboard and profile preferences when connecting to Solaris via SSH?
I'm connecting to a Solaris box from Mac OS X. Whenever I have connected to linux boxes in the past it has been much easier to navigate around. How do I fix these configuration issues on Solaris?
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Find out global zone Name once you logged into a NON global zone
I understand in Unix Oracle-Solaris OS the zoneadm list command will easily show all the available zones.
But if I am logged into a non global zone there is no easy way to get information about the ...
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What OS should I install on old Sun Blade 1000 / Sun Blade 2000 workstations, and how should I do it?
I was given some nice old Sun UNIX workstations, Sun Blade 1000 and Sun Blade 2000. These are UltraSparc machines running Solaris 8 (which, with regard to all questions below, is useless because the ...
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Solaris: Script for finding the physical device path of all installed fiber cards
I have a number of systems (with quite varying type, generation and architecture unfortunately).
I need to create a list of fiber cards on these varying systems.
I am able to use prtconf -v, and ...
