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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| Solaris | 1/5/2012 | Jay Plesset |
| Q: I am basically a commerce graduate. I want to shift to IT, so I am planning to do Solaris through a ... A: Well, knowledge of Solaris can be very helpful in an IT environment, but that's not all you'll want ... | ||
| Which is better - RHCE or CCNA or MCSE? | 11/16/2011 | Jay Plesset |
| Q: I want to do a certification course in Networking.I heard that Linux is more secure.But, Windows is ... A: This is a very difficult question for me to attempt to provide you a useful answer. I can't tell ... | ||
| SPRING OS | 7/25/2011 | Jay Plesset |
| Q: Sir please give me the links to find documentation of SPRING operating system.I have to give a ... A: Spring OS was really before my time at Sun. I Googled it, and found a number of useful links, ... | ||
| Operating Systems Booting through USB Tape Device | 7/20/2011 | Jay Plesset |
| Q: Every Operating System has different File Systems Format. As we know Tape Devices, a secondary ... A: Honestly, I don't see any real advantage of booting any OS via a tape, when it's so easy and so well ... | ||
| Operating Systems Booting through USB Tape Device | 7/18/2011 | Jay Plesset |
| Q: Every Operating System has different File Systems Format. As we know Tape Devices, a secondary ... A: Prashant: Making some assumptions, here: 1. Your hardware is able to boot from a USB device. 2. ... | ||
| change the system bootup time for two OS | 9/1/2005 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: sir, I have dual booting. First one is Windows XP second one is linux. Whenever I will on the ... A: sorry for the delay but i was on holiday.. so, to change the timeout click on "my computer" -> ... | ||
| solaris | 4/14/2005 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: i read that for creating a run controll script i.e init file has to have a hard link with /etc . ... A: sorry for the delay... it does not matter if you use a hard or soft link, but keep in mind to remove ... | ||
| o/s | 3/3/2005 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: will you explain to me the features of MSDOS & Window NT and the comparison between them A: Sorry, but i'm not so familiar with MSDOS and NT but one big difference is that msdos is single ... | ||
| About the Installation Of Solaris 8 | 1/25/2005 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: My Question us that, "When i bootup my Intell x86 system with Solaris 8 Bootable CD-ROM to ... A: Sorry for the delay ... I would recommend you to install the Solaris 10 OS on your x86 System. Since ... | ||
| netsend in other os | 11/4/2004 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: such as in winxp i use netsend to send message from one computer to another HOW CAN I SEND THE ... A: One way is to do it the following way: printf "eval echo \"yourmessage\" \| wall" | rsh unixsys ... | ||
| copying soft links | 8/26/2004 | Kenneth Gullberg |
| Q: I am trying to duplicate certain small portions of a disk which includes directories, files and ... A: The easiest way to copy something like that is to use tar. Lets say you want to copy dir1 to dir2 ... | ||
| Sun Solaris OS 5.6 | 8/20/2004 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: Howdy: We have a SPARC station 20 that needs to have OS 5.6 reloaded, but the CDROM and ... A: I recken you should contact Sun Microsystems directly and ask for OS 5.6. But this release is out of ... | ||
| java certification course | 7/14/2004 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: actually i am doing my BE(I.T) from mumbai university ,india...but we never had any course subject ... A: I´m not a Java programmer but i reckon it would be best to buy some books, program alot and take the ... | ||
| Solaris | 4/12/2004 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I would like to know the basic command on solaris to configure the network Regards A: The Basic commands are: ifconfig InterfaceName plumb <-- to configure the interface ifconfig ... | ||
| PATH Command | 2/10/2004 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I am using the SunOS. Currently, I am trying to add a path to my path environment variable, but I ... A: You have to add you path like this PATH=mypath:$PATH then your path will be checked first ... | ||
| SUN file format to WINDOWS conversion. | 5/29/2003 | Kenneth Gullberg |
| Q: I have some FORTRAN files (plain text format) that have been saved with a SUN station on a diskette. ... A: Basically you cant, the diskette has probably been formatted with UFS which windows cant read. You ... | ||
| very basic question | 3/4/2002 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: Sorry to ask such a basic, and perhaps stupid question, but I do hope you can help... What is the ... A: Sun is a Unix Operating System such a others like AIX, SGI, True64 .... Sun is based on the System V ... | ||
| Sun Certified Solaris Administrator | 1/31/2002 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: John, I'm wondering how you prepared and passed your Sun exams. There are so many different books ... A: I used the Exam Cram book for Solaris and I reviewed the documentation available at docs.sun.com. ... | ||
| Beos/Linux | 1/22/2002 | Kenneth Gullberg |
| Q: What is better for me, Beos or Linux. I don't have much time to configure, and I really don't like ... A: Im no expert in either linux or beos, im mainly a solaris guy but I do have some opinions :) I ... | ||
| RAID | 10/11/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: I am an Oracle DBA on Solaris platform. I would like to know, in a RAID setup (say, mirroring), ... A: If your disks are mirrored, there is nothing you need to do. Mirroring basically writes the data to ... | ||
| StarOffice 5.0 | 7/19/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: I don't know much about computers, so please be elementary with explanations. Thank you! I have the ... A: This is outside my area of expertise. My area is the support of the Sun Solaris Operating system. ... | ||
| Hardware Error | 6/21/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: I got this error message on my Sun Enterprise 250: Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix: WARNING: ... A: Basically, this indicates that you are having a hardware failure. You can kind of decipher what ... | ||
| Internet Connection Sharing - Windows 2000 to Solaris | 5/5/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: Heyas, John, Thanx for taking my question. I'll try to make it sound intelligent. I have a ... A: I think this question is outside my area of expertise. I have not done a lot of work integrating ... | ||
| abour sun os | 4/18/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: can you please help me with this questions as follow: Who developed sun os? When it come out? ... A: Here is the brief history of UNIX, with special emphasis on Sun. Late 1960s, UNIX is developed by ... | ||
| Copying links under Solaris | 4/10/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: I am trying to duplicate certain small portions of a disk which includes directories, files and ... A: I am pretty sure this should work. I use it when copying entire directory structures to a different ... | ||
| CShell scripts under Solaris | 3/27/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: Configuration info: SunBlade 100 workstation, 256 MB RAM, Solaris 2.8, CShell User info: Complete ... A: First of all, script is the correct term. Is there a reason you are using the c shell? It is not ... | ||
| Solaris error message | 3/27/2001 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I'm a real newbie in the computer field (have only been in it less than a year). I recently got a ... A: Start the workstation in singe user mode: at boot up press the "stop" and "a" key now your in the ... | ||
| Solaris error message | 3/27/2001 | Elaine Murphy |
| Q: I'm a real newbie in the computer field (have only been in it less than a year). I recently got a ... A: well you'll have to try a few different things here to get to the bottom of this one ! Firstly, ... | ||
| Solaris error message | 3/27/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: I'm a real newbie in the computer field (have only been in it less than a year). I recently got a ... A: There appears to be some sort of NFS (Network File System) problem here. lockd is a process used ... | ||
| Solaris error message | 3/26/2001 | Kenneth Gullberg |
| Q: I'm a real newbie in the computer field (have only been in it less than a year). I recently got a ... A: On bootup, a machine might display the following error message: rpc.lockd: cannot contact ... | ||
| set up to print | 3/16/2001 | Will H. Stewart |
| Q: I am hoping you can help me with a problem I have on my test server here at work. I have an Intel ... A: The way you have your configuration it will never work. Solaris files needing to be moved to an ... | ||
| quotas | 3/13/2001 | Will H. Stewart |
| Q: How to implement user quotas in Solaris 7? OS : Solaris 7 Hard Ware : Sparc / Intel Please give ... A: From Solaris 7 Systems Administration Guide,Volume II, Managing Quotas (Tasks): Using quotas enable ... | ||
| Help with windows me | 3/4/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: Im new to this computer stuff so i have hardly any knoweledge yet. What my question is is this. I ... A: I think you have three basic questions. 1) Where do I get Windows 98 SE? 2) How do I save ... | ||
| boot floppy for Solaris 7 installation | 3/2/2001 | John Storta, Jr. |
| Q: John, I had asked you some questions regarding booting the system for installing solaris.i am very ... A: Here is how I did it. The only problem I ran across is I had to rename the image file that was ... | ||
| system defaults | 1/18/2001 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: i am using solaris 8. how do i create default paths for all users (in a way that if i want to add a ... A: 1. you can add a path to all users if you modify the /etc/csh.login file and update it with your ... | ||
| Sun operating system | 1/2/2001 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I work in a Microsoft enviroment.Recently 2 Sun boxes installed as firewalls. Their models are Ultra ... A: The best method for learning solaris is to study the course material. Maybe a friend of yours has ... | ||
| SendMail | 12/25/2000 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I tried using mailx -s "Test Message" kapilvisht@usa.net < mail.txt But i got a mail back saying ... A: 1. if you are using a mail server that does not allow forwarding you would also get this ... | ||
| Restricting CDROM access | 12/19/2000 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: Hai Mario, I want to restrict a few users within my host from accessing the CDRom drive. I am ... A: One way to do so is to give the users only the restricted shell. This is probably the best way. ... | ||
| Setuid | 12/19/2000 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I am running Solaris 7 on sparc. I am using sccs in my project. my project login is 'elt' and all ... A: Sorry, but i´m not familiar with sccs. setuid is usefull for programs that should run under ... | ||
| How to use swap? | 12/12/2000 | Mario Bucsics |
| Q: I am using SunOS 5.7. I have a lot of java processes sleeping on my server. They consume a lot of ... A: If there is no enough physical memory available Solaris automaticly starts swaping without any ... | ||
Jay Plesset
Top Expert on this page
Expertise
Installing, running, patching the Solaris operating system on X86 and Sparc platforms. I have experience with Solaris 8, 9, and 10. I worked for Sun for 10 years, and am a "Certified Solaris Administrator"
Experience
I have experience with Solaris 8, 9, and 10. I worked for Sun for 10 years, and am a "Certified Solaris Administrator"
Publications
http://todays-home.com (Internet radio program, where I'm the resident "tech talk" guru. We talk about computers, audio systems, anything technical.
Education/Credentials
Sun Solaris training, by Sun Microsystems
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