Posts Tagged ‘ Solaris ’

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 ...
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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...
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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 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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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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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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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 way is to create a script that would...
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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 scritps010/010/010/010 I tried every command I could think of, rmdir “scripts”,...
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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 use the command chmod 744 /etc/inet/ipnodes. Finally rename directory /var/crash, the system...
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I ran out of space on my SAN drive on the Solaris 10 SPARC server. Since I had two spare disk drives sitting in the server that were not being used, I decided to create a single striped volume out of the two drives. The drives contained the factory installed Solaris 10 image. Here...
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The root drive on my Solaris server was full and I needed to find out what file was the largest. The du command can list the size of the files in a directory, you can then use the sort command to display the results in numerical order (by size). Below is an example of the...
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