Archive for February, 2010

How to list the status of swap in Solaris

February 26, 2010
By Andrew Lin

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...
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How to change the IP address in Solaris 10

February 25, 2010
By Andrew Lin

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 the interface you want, your server may have more than one network interfaces. vi /etc/hostname.bge0 10.0.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 Change the node name vi /etc/nodename server-name Add...
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How to configure Samba on Solaris 10

February 11, 2010
By Andrew Lin

If you need to find the version of Samba installed on the Solaris 10 server use the command smbstatus. # /usr/sfw/bin/smbstatus Samba...
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Got my site added to DMOZ

February 3, 2010
By Andrew Lin

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 able to find Games Cheat listed on DMOZ....
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Using grep/egrep to find out which file contains a word or string in Unix or Linux

February 2, 2010
By Andrew Lin

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 “groundhog” /home/* /home/shadow:Today is groundhog day The –i option means grep will ignore upper/lower...
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