In Solaris 10, if you want to find the processor type and the number of physical processors installed on the system and the number of Virtual Processors available on the system then the psrinfo command does job for you.
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Everytime you edit your crontabe file, the error “Your “crontab” on <server> unexpected end of line. This entry has been ignored” is sent to the users email. This happens if there is a blank line in your crontab file.
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In Sun Solaris, we can use the Loopback File driver to mount an ISO image without having to write the ISO image onto a CD or DVD. Following procedure should help you mount an ISO image in Sun Solaris
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This is one of those not so technical tip but certainly the one we need when it comes to talk to Sun Support or creating a documentation. yes, its taking screenshots in Sun Solaris Operating Environment using CDE. Sun Solaris X utilities uses “xwd“, an application that is standard among the X utilities can be
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In multiprocessor environments, Sun Solaris can allow enabling or disabling Processors. This although is not something that we would do all the time but can come handy when troubleshooting hardware issues. Sun Solaris has the psradm utility which allows enabling or disabling a Processor on the system. The psradm utility changes the operational status of
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Sun solaris has various different utilities to find the processor information on your hardware. Let’s have a look at the different utilities that can display the processor informations and the way they display information.
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A quick reference guide for “at” utility in Sun Solaris. “at” utility in unix is similar to the “cron” daemon except for that “at” jobs are run only once while cron jobs are recurring. “at” is primarily used to schedule a job which can be command or a script to run once at a particular
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Setting up a Sun Solaris Server to receive its IP address from a DHCP Server is fairly straight forward and is infact just a matter of setting up files on your Solaris Server.
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Everytime you reboot your Sun Solaris Server, you may find that one or more of your Network Interfaces may not come online. If you did a “netstat -r” sunsolaris# netstat -r Routing Table: IPv4 Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface ——————– ——————– —– —– —— ——— BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET solaris10 U 1 0 hme0 default 192.168.0.1
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The Volume Manager (vold) daemon in Sun Solaris will automatically detect and mount a CDROM when inserted on Sun Solaris under /cdrom (if CD is not labelled )or /cdrom/<label> where <label> is the label of the CD In instances where vold is not running or when there is a need to manually mount the CDROM
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