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
between ...
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Opposite of tail: all lines except the last n lines
How can I discard the last n lines of a file with a unix command line filter?
That would be sort of the opposite of tail: tail discards the first n lines but pipes the rest through, but I want the ...
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what happens when you have 2 network interfaces to the same network in a Unix/Linux OS?
What will happen if you have 2 network interfaces to the same network where the default gateway/router is?
e.g
network interface e1000g0 - 192.168.1.50
network interface e1000g1 - 192.168.1.51
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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 can I get numbers of CPU of Sun Solaris by command?
I can use 'prtdiag' to get number of CPU by prtdiag command.
$ prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 6800
System clock frequency: 150 MHz
Memory size: 4096 Megabytes
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Untar on Solaris
I'm using a Sun Sparc System, aka Solaris. I have a .tar.gz file, and I can't figure out how to untar it. The command I usually use doesn't work:
tar -xzvf file.tar.gz
Anybody know how to do this? ...
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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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Is there a ready-to-run Solaris virtual machine for VMWare?
I would like to test some scripting on a Solaris machine. Is there a VMWare virtual machine with Solaris that I can download and use directly?
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How to build a NAS?
I have quite a bit of photos I'd like to organize and get away from sparse DVDs and move to a NAS solution. Ideally, this would let me have some level of redundancy and more easily find what I'm ...
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Replacing /bin/bash with /bin/false in /etc/passwd file
I am writing a program to disable users from a system, i want to replace /bin/bash to /bin/false.
Example
xxx:x:1:22:xx:/export/home/xx:**/bin/bash**
replace to
xxx:x:1:22:xx:/export/home/xx:**/...
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What are the strengths of OpenSolaris compared to Linux?
Please try to answer in these areas:
For what kind of usage is OpenSolaris more suited than Linux?
What are the useful OpenSolaris features that Linux lacks?
Personal experiences are welcomed, but ...
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Path of a command
Could someone please let me know how to get to know the executable path of a command/utility in solaris?? like executable path of ls is /usr/bin
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Oracle Solaris 11 Express: is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
The download for Oracle Solaris 11 Express says the image is for x86. I can't find anything specific on the Oracle documentation site that states if this is 32-bit or 64-bit. Any pointers?
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perl - translate sed to perl
The following command work fine on Solaris ( delete line only if last character is ":" )
sed -e '/:$/d' < foo > foo.new
how to do the same in perl ? ( the reason for that because I not want ...
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How can I use sed to alter the results of find and pass the results to cp?
In solaris, I'd like to copy all files found by the find command to a slightly different path. The following script basically executes cp for each file found by find. For example:
cp ./content/...
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Solaris11 back to console boot
I installed Solaris 11 X86.
I installed solaris-desktop.
Then Solaris boots to GUI mode.
How can I make the Solaris boots to console mode? (And then optionally starts X by hand?)
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Emulating SPARC hardware
I need a software who emulate SPARC system (Hardware) in a Windows 7 host computer.
I need to install a Solaris SPARC 10 for developing purpose and I don't have a SPARC machine.
Can you give me some ...
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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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Find and Move Files up One Level
I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy.
Basically I have something like
/path/to/application/files/and/stuff/a1/...
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Compiling and installing programs as non-root in home-dir?
I'm trying to compile programs under Solaris in my Home directory.
Ive had experience with simple installs which work with just
$> CD src
$> ./configure --prefix=/home/peter
$> make
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How can I hide username@node in linux shell?
I want to hide username@solaris in a Unix shell.
I would like something like this:
$ ls -l
Instead I have this:
user@solaris:~$ ls -l
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PS Command in Solaris
PS Command output is truncated in Solaris. I tried the below command after g
Googling out. It doesn't work. Not sure what needs to be done
/usr/ucb/ps awwx
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How to foreground a job from another session
As root, is there a way to foreground (fg) a job within a root session that is in the foreground of another root session? If the job in the other session has to be put in the background (using bg) ...
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Can I virtualize Windows and linux using virtualbox on solaris with zfs zvols?
I am considering building a system to virtualise Windows Server 2016 and CentOS 6 using virtualbox on Solaris (for home use), in order to take advantage of zfs' reliability.
I was planning on getting ...
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Removing files on ZFS does not free disc-space
I'm trying to free space on a ZFS by removing files. They are large (>1GB) so it should show in the numbers. Unfortunately, after unlinking the files, df does not show any increase in available ...
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Public key authentication on SunSSH fails
I'm using OpenIndiana 151a on x86 and I want to connect to other remote servers using ssh with public key authentication, but it fails.
The remote server's sshd (OpenSSH) is enabled with ssh-2 ...
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Preventing Sendmail Brute Force Attack on Solaris 10
I want to dynamically block specific connections that use the same IP address based on a rate or connection limit. Is this possible using Solaris/IPF or some sendmail extension? I want to limit ...
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Why is Solaris big endian
... when Unix is little endian?
From Wikipedia, Solaris is based on Unix in some sense:
In 1987, AT&T and Sun announced that they were collaborating on a project to merge the most popular Unix ...
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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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grep -r not working on Solaris
How can I do recursive grep on Solaris?
When I tried, I received this error:
-r: invalid option.
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When piped with ls, grep in solaris is not working
I am using the below command in solaris
ls -l | grep '*PROC*'
But it is not working. I have many files that contain "PROC" in their name like "XREF_PROC.complete" but when I use the above command ...
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Is Solaris 11 Express a replacement for OpenSolaris?
I was searching for OpenSolaris but landed in Oracle's website of Solaris 11 Express. Is OpenSolaris replaced by Solaris 11 Express?
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tar - exclude does not work
I've supposed to archive a directory with tar and exclude some files. I have a directory $HOME/java which includes some .java and .class files. What I want to do is exclude all .class files using the -...
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milliseconds from solaris command line
This gnu date command lets me get milliseconds this way:
date +%M:%S.%N;
but this command doesn't work on solaris... any ideas?
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Solaris 32bit / 64bit confusion
I have a Solaris on a AMD-
uname -a gives
OS Solaris 10 x86_64 (SunOS goldtpus34 5.10 Generic_144489-11
I wanted to find whether it has a 32bit or 64 bit kernel so
I did
/usr/bin/isainfo -k
it ...
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How to create a new Firefox profile in Linux or Solaris?
I know how to create a new Firefox profile in Windows.
I want to create a new Firefox profile in Linux / Solaris. How do I do that?
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"No version for 'optional' dependency..." when updating Solaris 11.3
I'm having trouble updating Solaris 11.3. The problems below show up on both a DL360 G5 hardware (dual Xeons), and a VM guest (Core i7). The Solaris installations use Sun's image, and I did not ...
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How to detect free memory slots in Solaris 9 using software?
I would like to know if there is any command which would tell me if there are any free memory slots in the server.
The servers I would be looking would be Solaris 9 OS/Sparc.
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How do I interpret “total 18” in the output of the "ls -l" command in Solaris10?
auyantepui# ls -l
total 18
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 23 13:11 READMEs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 May 23 13:11 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 23 13:09 docs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 ...
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Equivalent of "du --max-depth=0 -h" (or something similar) in Solaris
The du command in my solaris environment has very terse help, no man page, and doesn't support the --max-depth option seen in the linux world.
I want to know how much space a given directory occupies....
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Solaris T5120 How to reset firmware root password
I have this Solaris T5120 box bought used no HDD so there is no OS yet
I was able to connect using Serial Console using HyperTerminal
Default User/Password didn't work
root changeme
sunservice ...
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Unix find not working with a wildcard in the path when ssh'ing
This command with a * in the find path works fine on the local server
Svr1$ find /path/*/foo/ -name "*20160208"
When I try this remotely from another server it doesn't work
Svr2$ ssh Svr1 find '/...
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Solaris x86 install on Lenovo nothing happening
All,
I am in the process of creating a DEV box for hosting my projects and I am wanting to install Solaris 11.1 onto a Lenovo Desktop PC .
PC Details:
Lenovo M92p Thinkcentre 3227
Intel Core i5 3rd ...
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Making a bootable USB for Solaris
Is it possible to create a bootable USB of Oracle Solaris 11? I don't want to install Solaris on an Oracle VM Virtual Box.
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can I tell how much space I would be saving if I switched to ZFS?
I've currently got a spare computer, and I'm thinking of trying out openindiana on it to play around a little with the snapshotting and deduplication features of ZFS, with the view of setting it up ...
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How to add a nameserver to Solaris 11?
I'm having a name resolution problem in Solaris 11. According to the online Solaris guide, Chapter 12 Setting Up DNS Clients:
Client Set Up
Setting up DNS on a client machine involves two ...
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fit grep syntax from linux to solaris
The following command
grep -w '^[^#]* machine_VIP' /etc/hosts | head -1 | awk '{print $1}'
works fine on linux (its capture the machine_VIP alias and return the IP address from /etc/hosts and ignore ...
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Choice of an OS for a home ZFS NAS
I am preparing a home NAS with an old Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 4 GB ECC RAM, Asus M2V MX motherboard, and a single 3 TB WDC Green (another one as mirror may be installed in the future). It's the cheapest ...
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How do I safely merge two directories using commands on Solaris (and OSX)?
Directory A and B have many subdirectories with nearly identical content. Directory B may have newer files and some subdirectories that directory A does not have. When files in Directory B are newer,...
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Jenkins pipeline calls git.exe on non-windows node
I have a master set up on Windows machine.
I have a few nodes on Jenkins, one of which has 2 labels: "system project".
This node is actually a plain Solaris 11.3 machine.
Other nodes are plain ...