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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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, ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| Memory util. over a longer period | 12/12/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: ), Hi I have tried the proctool on SunOs 5.7. There are a lot of bugs like: * You cannot get nore ...
A: I dont know of such a tool except for in commercial packages like Patrol + Best/1. Something that ...
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| Paging in Unix | 12/7/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: I want to thank you for the tip on proctool. Really nice tool and freeware. I don't understand the ...
A: Some background about how memory is handled is needed to understand why it is interesting to measure ...
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| PATH environment variable | 12/3/2000 | Mario Bucsics |
Q: I am operating a "virtual server" account on a SunOS 5.7 system. The hosting company provides a ...
A: If you would like to add the path to all users on the system edit the /etc/profile and add the ...
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| telnet connection problems | 11/7/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: ,,,,, I am having a SUN Sparc E250 server ,,,, the problem is tht users are unable to connect via. ...
A: Did you check /etc/inetd.conf? thats where the daemons are commented out if you want to disable ...
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| Sun Solaris | 10/19/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: what is the difference between solaris 2.6 and SunOS 5.6?
A: There is no difference, Solaris 2.6 is the product name. SunOS is for historical reasons, before ...
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| want to learn unix | 9/14/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: I have been using Windows all my life. I have no idea how Unix(solaris) works. I have never used one ...
A: I'd get some books first, look at www.ora.com, they have really good books if you are used to ...
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| users | 9/14/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: I`m using a Sun SparcStation 10 with OpenWindows 3 over SunOS 5.5.1. Is there a specific app for ...
A: Sun has 2 tools for administering the machines. The one included on the ordinary cd is admintool. ...
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| Remote shares | 9/7/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: I`m running solaris 2.3 Is there a command to enquire on a remote machine to see what shares they ...
A: 1. I dont remember if the command is available on 2.3 or not but it is called dfshares on 2.5/2.6, ...
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| Ip addresses | 9/6/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: How do you change the ip address on a solaris 2.3 box
A: If you are only going to change the ip and not the name its really easy, just edit /etc/hosts and ...
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| HELP | 9/5/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: I am a systems administrator, handling Windows NT & Novell Networks. I am intrested in moving onto ...
A: Thats a cool opening line ;) Seriously though.. Mandrake will help you into a Sun career, no ...
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| sendmail with attached files | 8/22/2000 | Kenneth Gullberg |
Q: Just a simplehow can I use sendmail/mailx to send a message with attached files? I did not see any ...
A: What you can do is to use the uuencode utility to create a "attachable" file, then in the start of ...
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