Questions tagged [solaris]
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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mv command is moving to the parent of the provided argument
Let's say I have a working directory:
/home/userID/workingDirectory
I type a mv command that will affect the parent directory of the current working directory and the working directory itself:
mv .*...
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Searching for files within subdirectories?
I have a tree of parent folder and subfolders. The subdirectories have similar names. I would like to search for files stored in the sub-directories. How can I do that?
For example:
Parent-...
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I'm trying to output password statuses for RedHat. Is there an equivalent of “password -s” in RedHat?
Like the title says, I'm trying to output password statuses for RedHat.
For my Solaris machine, I was able to run:
for i in `more shadow | awk -F: '{print $1}'`; do passwd -s $i; done
And that ...
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return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script
I have a test script that is producing the following on Solaris 9 running on SPARC:
$ cat test.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
[[ "$0" = "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" ]] && exit 0 || return 0
$ ./test.sh
./...
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Script for verifying service [on hold]
I am trying to get this to run and am having no luck. I am trying to see if 2 services exist. If they exist and they are disabled, it should return pass. If not then fail.
#!/bin/bash
# echo "...
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How do I compile mod_auth_kerb-5.4 on Solaris 10
I am trying to compile a new version of mod_auth_kerb-5.4 to match a new version of Apache2.4 on Solaris 10
I run:
LIBS="-L/opt/local2/lib -lkrb5" ./configure --with-krb5=/opt/local2/lib --with-krb4=...
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How to extract number from the below string which is the output of a command?
I want to extract message number which we get on executing command mailx -H.
I want the message numbers of unread and new messages only.
I tried with the below command:
mailx -H|grep '^ [UN]'|cut -c ...
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How to extract lines from source file with reference file, add to the result file? [duplicate]
I have a question and cannot figure out.
It is Solaris.
the over simplified source & reference files.
s.txt source file:
dn: cn=task,cn=Groups,dc=domain
changetype: modify
add: uniquemember
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Solaris won't update because ddt-incorporation is using a self-signed certifcate
I'm trying to update my Solaris 11.3 x86 system. The system hasSun/Oracle software on it, including Sun Developer Studio and Sun SSH server. It does not have other software on it, and I don't have ...
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Is there a reason why the value of a wchar_t retrieved by mbtowc() is not the UNICODE value?
If I convert the character 'ö' from a UTF-8 locale (where is is represented by the two octetts 0xC3 0xB6) to a wchar_t, I get a wchar_t value that is 0xF6. This applies to Linux and Solaris.
If I ...
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Trouble installing Oracle Developer Studio
ALL,
root@solaris:~# df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/s11.3qa_example_backup
511967232 5085980 495960478 ...
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Passing environment variables via sudo on solaris 10
I need to execute a command via sudo on Solaris 10, and I need to pass two environment variables to the command. This must be done in /bin/sh, not bash, not ksh.
This is possible on Linux, serveral ...
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Problem installing Solaris Studio
I was following instructions here, but unfortunately, trying to do the last command:
$ pkg contents -m sunpro-incorporation | grep 0.175
didn't yield anything.
NOTE: I'm trying to install it on ...
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Equivalent of “ssh-keyscan -H” in Solaris 10/11
I'm creating a Perl program that adds the specified host in root's known_hosts file. The program works in AIX and Linux, but not in Solaris and sadly, I can't find its equivalent command.
Sample line:...
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Difference between /opt and /export/opt on Solaris 10 [duplicate]
I am new to Solaris / Unix world and I noticed that if I delete a folder, example:
ls /export/opt/Java
i386/ sparc/
rm -r /export/opt/Java/i386
This change is also reflected in /opt/Java:
ls /...
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Upgrading Solaris zone to solaris 11 [closed]
We have solaris zones running in Sparc T5 server
Currently a solaris zone run Solaris 10 OS version.
$uname -a
SunOS zone01 5.10 Generic_150400-30 sun4v sparc sun4v
Going further, we would like ...
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How to permanently Set/change the Limits in Solaris 10 system wide
I received email from oracle to change the limit on solaris 10 server to make oracle application work,
unfortunately i have no experience in Solaris, so need assistance
Values will be like below
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How much swap space does Solaris 11.3 need to run a compiler?
I have a desktop with a Core i5 3rd gen and 4 GB of RAM. I am using the machine to test building some free software projects I contribute to. The machine serves no other purpose.
I allocated 4 GB ...
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Solaris 11.3 and SSHD privilege separation
I'm working on a OpenSSH server installation on Solaris 11.3. When I build OpenSSH 7.7p1 from source and install it make dies at the end after installing the components:
$ sudo gmake install
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Shell - Find the latest file which matches a given pattern
I have the following files.
root@VMBOX:/client# ls -lrt /client/*/ver* /client/*/*/ver*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:54 /client/folder299/version_1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:58 /...
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Can't create a swapfile for Solaris 11.3
My compiles are failing on Solaris 11.3 due to out of memory kills. The box is an UltraSPARC workstation with 600GB drives and 8 GB of RAM and a fresh OS install. It is absolutely befuddling there's ...
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pkg set-publisher: One or more client key and certificate files have expired
I have an older Solaris 11.3 box. The box has my old key and certificate on it and they are expired. It is causing pkg update to fail:
pkg update: One or more client key and certificate files have ...
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pkg set-publisher fails on Solaris 11
I'm trying to install Sun/Oracle Studio on Solaris 11. We have a free developer account on the Sun Developer Network. I have the developer key and certificate. I scp'd them to the UltraSPARC ...
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How do I avoid colour channel issues with 24-bit colour remote X11 with older Solaris?
When using CDE on older Solaris systems (2.5.x) remotely using XDMCP with TrueColor visuals, on-screen pixmaps are missing the blue channel and have the red and green channels swapped.
This means ...
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Solaris 11 manifest-import does not automatically import my manifest
I have a manifest XML file. When I copy my XML to /var/svc/manifest/ and restart manifest-import service sudo svcadm restart svc:/system/manifest-import, the service does not appear in my service list....
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chmod very slow on NFS [closed]
Is there any way I can speed up chmod on an NFS server?
I am running chmod on a number of files each time a script is run. It is almost immediate when run locally, but when targeting the NFS server ...
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How to install php7 on solaris 10 with Oracle Instant client
I am trying to install php7 with oracle on Solaris 10.
The oracle instant-client-basic and instant-client sdk was downloaded from oracle
The instant client-basic was unzipped and this creates the ...
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truss on Solaris showing FDs closed that aren't opened
I'm confused. One of our DBAs is reporting an issue with LDAP connection errors. I figured I'd start tracing that from truss to see exactly what it's connecting to, but what I'm seeing makes no ...
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Whats the difference between /tmp and /swap and /system/volatile in Solaris 11
My Solaris 11 df output has different swap entries
root@hostname:/# df -h | egrep "tmp|swap"
/tmp 108G 5.1G 103G 5% /tmp
swap 150G 119G 31G ...
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Why does =~ operator give a syntax error on Solaris while comparing with a regular expression
I used this following piece of code
appcount_range="^[1-$APP_COUNT]$"
until [[ $APP_OPTION =~ $appcount_range ]]
do
echo "INVALID CHOICE! Please enter a valid option:"
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Are there any alternatives to the `find` command on linux for SunOS?
The find command on Linux has a lot of options compared to the find command on SunOS or Solaris.
I want to use the find command like this:
find data/ -type f -name "temp*" -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %f\n"...
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Best recovery options from snapshot
I have a situation where I started the deletion of a valid NetApp qtree (don't ask) containing 18TB of user files. The job was stopped, but after the system had about 5 minutes of deleting data. I'...
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how to find lastlog details in solaris
please advise the equivalent command of linux lastlog in solaris, need to write a script to find the the users last login date and time in solaris servers. Linux its very easy to fetch using lastlog ...
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How to force OmniOS (illumos) “format” properly recognize disk geometry?
I have a FreeBSD-initialised 8-disk vdev, all 10TB WD RED, now on a server with OmniOS r151026, connected via LSI 3008 HBA.
At POST, the card shows all disks with right geometry (I can post picture ...
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How to install php7 on solaris 10 with OpenSSL 1.0.1
I am trying to install php7 on Solaris 10.
OpenSSL 1.0.1 was installed from https://www.opencsw.org/packages/libssl1_0_0/
To check for the installed ssl I did
pkginfo -i | grep -i "ssl"
and I ...
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How to build a gcc-4.9.0 successfully on solaris 10 sparc
I am trying to build a gcc-4.9.0 on solaris 10 sparc.
gmp was successfully built and install at
/application/gmp-6.0.0a
mpfr was also successfully built and install at
/application/mpfr-3.1.2
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How to correctly extract a .tar.gz with md5.sum on solaris 10
I am trying to extract a gcc-4.9.0.tar.gz downloaded from one of the gcc mirror site.
In order to check the md5 signature on it before I gunzip it I did
digest -a md5 -v gcc-4.9.0.tar.gz
which ...
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file ending .gz0 - which program does this?
On my Solaris 10 boxes, I have compressed log files with the ending .gz0. gunzip cannot unzip them, however if I change the ending to .gz, gunzip will unzip them, and these files appear to be empty. ...
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Export specific folders from .tar
i have a test.tar in the folder /dir1/dir2/ and i want to extract folders from my test.tar into the directory /dir1/dir2/. The structure of my test.tar ist
test.tar
|tdirX/
|tdirY/
|tdirZ/
and so ...
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One time query to sync time with NTP server
I do not plan to configure NTP client to sync with the NTP servers for my Solaris servers.
Is it possible that I connect to this NTP servers and sync the time on an ad-hoc basis?
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Display blank lines by cat command
I have a list of files.txt, below:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root dev 11 May 16 12:18 20_SumActive.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root dev 11 May 16 12:18 22_SumActive.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root dev 7 May 16 12:18 24_SumActive....
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How can I set up aliases using bash in Solaris 5.10
Environment: SunRay terminal, running on Solaris 5.10 host. SHELL=/bin/bash
Goal: set up some aliases for long commands
Trying a simple alias:
alias p='pwd'
I've tried to add this alias to ....
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Generate random password with special characters on Solaris
I am trying to generate a 10-character random password in Solaris servers. The examples give around the web are for Linux and mostly not working in Solaris.
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Unix - ps to check if script running
I'm running a script which is meant to process a few utilities in order to recover some data. This script is situated in a directory where the users can place their file that needs to be recovered. ...
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Block HTTP traffic on solaris 11 IP Filter firewall
I have an http server on my Solaris 11 system and I want to block all http requests from other systems. Eventually I will allow access, but for now I cannot figure out how to block access to port 80, ...
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OpenCSW and IPS on same Solaris 11 system?
Is there any danger running both IPS and OpenCSW side by side on a single Solaris 11 system?
I assume there should be no conflicts since both package managers use different repositories and ...
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sftp real time warning in solaris
Suppose I have two solaris servers, A and B, and I am connecting from one server to another using sftp.
Suppose B tries to connect to A using SFTP.
Then How to detect in A the sftp request sent by ...
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Is Solaris 11.4 beta a text-only distro?
Watching a few Youtube videos about installation of Solaris 11.4 beta I got an impression that they get a text mode console login and that's about it. There is no Live CD/USB image on Oracle's site, ...
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/sbin/sh:ping:not found [no such file or directory] but the file exist
How should I solve this problem,
/sbin/sh:ping:not found [no such file or directory]
but the file do really exist. When I find the file using command which it stated not found too. But files do ...
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Two local address listening on same port?
How is it possible that netstat -a | grep 8081 shows this:
localhost.8081 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN
*.8081 *.* 0 0 49152 ...
