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Debug/View System Variables in Solaris using adb utility

The adb utility is a general purpose debugger tool for Sun Solaris. adb utility can be used to view system variables and the values of the various system variables in use by the Sun Solaris Operating System. It  can  be  used to examine files and provides a controlled environment for the execution of programs.

Sun VTS – Sun Validation & Test Suite for hardware stress test

SunVTS, Sun Validation Test Suite, tests and validates Sun hardware by verifying the configuration and functionality of hardware controllers, devices, and platforms. SunVTS is used to ensure a “clean bill of health” of the overall system under test and its underlying hardware. Several diagnosability features incorporated in the latest release makes SunVTS an effective online/offline …

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nscd caching daemon in Sun Solaris

The nscd daemon is a caching daemon in Sun Solaris. It provides caching services for hosts,passwd,group,ipnodes databases using various nameservice lookups like hosts file, DNS, NIS,NIS+ and more. Each cache has a separate time-to-live for its data and modifying the local database like /etc/hosts invalidates that cache within ten seconds. nscd doesn’t cache /etc/shadow (contains …

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How to recover/reset root password in Sun solaris (x86)

I discussed here about resetting the password on Sun Solaris Operating system in SPARC platform. While the procedure is almost the same wherein you boot with the CD into single user mode and mount the root partition, here we discuss the procedure to reset the password for the root user on the x86 platform. It is recommeded that …

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How to recover/reset root password in Sun solaris (SPARC)

There is every little chance that one loses or rather forgets the root password of his Sun Solaris servers. In the event, this happens, there is a way out of it. Well the way and infact the only way is to reset the password as there is no way to recover it. Recovering/restting the password …

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