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How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC)

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OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH […]

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How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (X86)

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How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC)

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Error /dev/rmt0 Device busy in Sun Solaris

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If you are an Administrator and especially a backup administrator there is a very high chance that you get stuck with the following error message with your backup: /dev/rmt0 Device busy

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How to Flush DNS Cache in Sun Solaris

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It may be sometime required to flush your DNS Cache mostly when trying to troubleshoot a problem with your name service or when there was an invalid DNS entry after a server outage. The possible solution to clear these cached invalid entries or to wait till the record expires based on its TTL (Time To Live)

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How to troubleshoot Error: ! cron cannot fork

/var/adm/messages is full in Sun Solaris

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The /var/adm/messages is the file to which all the messages printed on the console are logged to by the Operating System. This helps to track back check the console messages to troubleshoot any issues on the system. Syslog daemon also writes to this /var/adm/messages file.

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How to install MySQL database server in Sun Solaris

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Installation of MySQL Database server on Solaris is not that difficult but is a bit dragging and not as straightforward as is in any other Linux flavors. The following procedure will help install MySQL and configure successfuly in Sun Solaris.

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How to install GNU tar in Sun Solaris

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There are scenarios where you cannot untar a certain package with the builtin tar utility. A best example would be when you use it to untar the MySQL Packages downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html Follow the procedures listed below to sucessfully install GNU Tar installed in Sun Solaris.

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Error – RSH Permission Denied in Sun Solaris

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When you run a command remotely from one Solaris Server (say SERVERA) to a remote server (say SERVERB) you might encounter the error RSH: Permission denied

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