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Error Could not get shadow information for NOUSER

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Have you ever had the following error popup on your /var/adm/messages: Oct  8 12:26:14 myserver sshd[29288]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER It would look like a security incident with the “nouser” system account but not so to be. The error gets written to /var/adm/messages when a user tries to …

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Install Sybase Perl module in Solaris 10

2 Comments / Package Management, Solaris 10 / By admin

Installing Perl modules in Sun Solaris is not as straight forward but is not very difficult as well.  Perl module installations in Sun Solaris needs GNU Make rather than the default make tool installed. And, requires using perlgcc to build the Makefile.PL than the default perl binary.

How to find the package which installed a file

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If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then the following procedure using “pkgchk” should help.

How to find list of files installed by a package

2 Comments / Package Management / By admin

“pkginfo” command can be useful in Solaris to give a detailed listing of a package including the details of number of installed files, pathnames, directories and executables as follows:

OBP Error: FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled

5 Comments / hardware / By admin

When you run any boot command like “boot net” or “boot -s” from the OK prompt (OBP), you may end up with the error FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled Don’t panic!!!

How to remove ^M characters from file in Unix/Solaris

10 Comments / General / By admin

When you sometimes copy a file from Windows to UNIX/Solaris or even Linux systems, you can find these anooying ^M characters everywhere. This is because, the file from Windows is in DOS (ASCII) format and needs to be converted to ISO format.

dladm – Display Link status,speed,duplex,statistics,MTU

5 Comments / Networking, Solaris 10 / By admin

In the past we have to mess around with the NDD commands and stats tools like kstat to find the network link status, speed, duplex information in Sun Solaris. With Solaris 10, this has become much easier with the dladm utility. dladm is the admin utility for Data-Link Interface which helps to display informarthe like …

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Find Chasis Serial Number using sneep

6 Comments / hardware / By admin

sneep (Serial Number in EEPROM) is a cool utility for Solaris that can retreive the Chasis Serial Number (CSN) or the Product Serial Number (PSN). This comes real handy when taking inventory or when having to work with Sun Support. sneep can also store useful information like system Assett Tag or Location into the EEPROM …

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PCP script to find open TCP ports and PIDs related in Solaris

5 Comments / Networking, security, Solaris 10, Solaris 8, Solaris 9 / By admin

PCP is a very useful security and adminitration script that can help you quickly find Processes (PIDs) having particular TCP Port(s) open, TCP ports open by specific PIDs or even list all the TCP Ports open by all PIDs running on your system.

How to find the WWN (World Wide Name) in Sun Solaris

14 Comments / hardware / By admin

World Wide Name (WWN) are unique 8 byte (64-bit) identifiers in SCSI or fibre channel similar to that of MAC Addresses on a Network Interface Card (NIC). Talking about the WWN names, there are also World Wide port Name (WWpN), a WWN assigned to a port on a Fabric which is what you would be …

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