The quickest way to recover from a total disaster is to have some sort of replication implemented. There are two different methods of real-time replication, hardware and software. My experiences with software replication such as Symantec Veritas Volume replicator for AIX was not pleasing....
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To determine the network card speed in Solaris 9 use the ndd utility. First list the NIC installed and active on the Solaris 9 server. # ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849 mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 hme0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2...
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By default Solaris installs the /export and /export/home filesystems in the root zfs pool, if you picked ZFS and not UFS as the filesystem. I wanted to relocate /export and /export/home to a larger ZFS pool other than the root pool as I wanted...
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Solaris 10 has provides the ability to recover from a disk drive failure using ZFS root pool snapshots. The snapshot can also be used to quickly rebuild a new server in the event of a disaster. Snapshot is different from flash archive which can...
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You can display and change the default boot device on a SUN Sparc server from the eeprom console. List the bootable devices with the devalias command, ok devalias cdrom /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@4,0:f net /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4 disk /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@0 name aliases List the current boot device. ok printenv boot-device...
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List the status of all swap areas. # swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 32,9 16 8425712 8425712 The output has five columns: path The path name for the swap area. dev The major/minor device number in decimal if it is a...
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Here is a list of files that you need to edit when changing the IP address of an interface in Solaris 10. /etc/hosts /etc/hostname.interface-name /etc/nodename /etc/defaultrouter /etc/resolv.conf /etc/netmasks Add the ip address and server name to the host file. vi /etc/hosts 10.0.0.10 server-name Select...
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If you need to find the version of Samba installed on the Solaris 10 server use the command smbstatus. # /usr/sfw/bin/smbstatus Samba version 3.0.35 PID Username Group Machine ——————————————————————- 1962 andrew users mypc (162.10.21.100) Service pid machine Connected at ——————————————————- IPC$ 1962 mypc Thu...
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Yahoo, it only took four to five tries over a span of four years to get Games Cheat successfully added to DMOZ. I last submitted my site to DMOZ about 5 months ago and forgot about it. I was pleasantly shocked when I was...
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If you need to find out which file in a directory contains a specific word then the grep command is your friend. Here is an example, if you wanted to find out which file in the directory /home contains the word groundhog. grep –i...
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I needed to determine the amount of time it would take to archive large amount of data on my unix server. If I had infinite amount of free time I could sit in front of the screen with a stop watch. But the better...
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My fat fingers inadvertently created a directory on my unix server with special characters. I could not access this directory nor could I delete it. When I listed the directory using the command ls –b, I could see all the funny characters. ls –b...
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Tired of getting slaughtered by the computer, use the cheat codes. My favourite one is GreedIsGood (not case sensitive). To activate a code simply press the enter key, type in the code (and the option if avaiable), and hit enter again. You should then...
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To change the hostname in Solaris 10 you need to edit 3 files and appply the new name. /etc/nodename /etc/hostname.*interface, e.g. hostname.bge0 /etc/inet/hosts this file is a hard link to /etc/inet/ipnodes. You will need to make /etc/inet/ipnodes writable before editing it. To enable write...
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