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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Why is my SSH login slow?
I'm seeing delays in SSH Logins. Specifically, there are 2 spots where I see a range from instantaneous to multi-second delays.
Between issuing the ssh command and getting a login prompt and
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du vs df output
Why are there differences between the outputs of the df and du commands?
Why they are not accurate in output?
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 1012M 394M 567M 42% /
/dev/...
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How to let `man` utility to use `less` to display manual rather than `more`?
I've this Solaris 10 installation and it uses more to display manual content. Is there a way to make it using less to display manual? because more is really not convenient to use.
Thank you.
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How to install Oracle Solaris 11 with Windows 7?
I want to install Oracle Solaris with Windows 7 without Virtual Machine...like means there should be an option of dual boot means that i can select the operating system during booting and can work in ...
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What is a ZFS legacy mount point?
I am trying to understand the way ZFS works when I do for example, a snapshot. When I use zfs list on machine I get some mount points and some paths. For example I get something like that:
rpool/ROOT/...
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Putty: login, execute command/change environment variable, and do NOT close the session
I would like to configure my PuTTY session in such a way that I could login to a remote host, and (a) start bash (b) change the PS1 variable (prompt content) (c) continue work in the session as normal....
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How do I find out which process is causing high CPU usage?
I have a strange issue happening on my Solaris virtual machine: After it is booted and up for 1-2 hours, the CPU usage will go up to 100% for 5 seconds, then down to normal for another 5 seconds, and ...
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Solaris: ssh -tt with no output
I have access to a machine running SunOS 5.10 (called solaris). I also have access to a RedHat machine (called redhat).
ssh -tt seems not to give me output if run from solaris to solaris, but works ...
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Running multiple operating systems on one laptop
I am in the process of running some benchmark tests on a variety of RDBMSes, and I am testing three different client operating systems.
Would it be terrible to partition the HDD and install Ubuntu, ...
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Alternative to using usbcopy to create Solaris Text Installer USB stick
I have a blank T5120 server without any optical drive onto which I want to install Solaris 11.3. I downloaded the sol-11_3-text-sparc.usb installer. The docs tell me to use a tool named usbcopy to ...
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Open man-page with less [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to let man utility to use less to display manual rather than more?
How can i open up the Man-page for a command with the less-editor?
Alternatively, how can i find the ...
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How to configure DHCP given Oracle instructions don't work?
I'm trying to enable DHCP on an Solaris 11 machine. My DHCP server is a m0n0wall, and it provides all network configuration information except the local broadcast address (limitation in m0n0wall).
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Error when use WinSCP + copy file from solaris machine to Windows machine
When I use WinSCP in order to transfer file from the Solaris machine to the Windows machine I get the following message
Received too large (7367222 B ) SFTP packet…….
The error is typically caused by ...
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Rotate screen using xrandr on Solaris 10
How do I call the xrandr command? I want to rotate my screen 90 deg. clockwise. Here is the usage:
% xrandr -help
usage: xrandr [options]
where options are:
-display <display> or -d <...
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1st sector on a disk vs 1st sector on a partition
I am on Intelx86 platform. I have make my entire disk a Solaris partition.
Below are the slice information in that Solaris partition
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk ...
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