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How to recover free space on deleted files without restarting the referencing processes?
When big files are deleted on a server, the files might still be referenced by processes, so the file system doesn't have more free space.
I tried to use lsof, but it seems it didn't list the deleted ...
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How can I use the home, end, page-up, page-down keys on Solaris via PuTTY?
I love the shortcuts home, end, page-up, page-down, but I am unable to use them via PuTTY on Solaris servers.
Windows PuTTY => Linux desktop via SSH, works fine.
Windows PuTTY => Solaris ...
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Error sh: line 9: 19705: Memory fault (coredump) in case of OpenSSH installation
I downloaded openssh-6.1.p1/tar.gz with http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/. I made at first ./configure, then make which, it seems, fulfilled without errors (Nexenta Illumos ...
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The steps to install service-network-ssh [closed]
My original goal was setup service-network-ssh on Nexenta Illumos. As a result of the command
apt-get install service-network-ssh
I got the following message
Reading package lists...
Building ...
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SFTP: Move (rename) many files from one folder to another (not one by one)
I need to move all the files from current_path to current_path/DestinationFolder.
The version of SFTP I'm using is: SFTP protocol version 2
The available commands are:
sftp> help
Available ...
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Issues while untaring in Linux- tarball created from Solaris
I am getting an error- "Unknown file type 'A', extracted as normal file"
while un-taring a set of files which has acl permissions set.
I had created the tar file in solaris as tar -cpfv ...
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Copy directory structure from Solaris preserving all the permissions and links
I am looking to copy a directory structure with Files, I am not looking for content a 0 byte file will do.
I just need to copy the directory tree with 0 byte files and links preserving the properties ...
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Get the list of active users[ users who has connected atleast once in last 6 months] in Solaris
Get the list of active users[ users who has connected atleast once in last 6 months] in Solaris10
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1answer
315 views
Moving from syslog.conf to syslogng.conf
I'm moving a Solaris box from syslogd to syslog-ng, because the Solaris version of syslogd obliterates the original source hostname on the logs. I'm looking through the syslogng.conf documentation, ...
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syslog written on console
I have odd problem with syslog local7, my syslog configure the syslog to be written to
local7.info /var/log/syslog_info
it's working just fine for years but recent days one device syslog message ...
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Solaris 11 installed, no updates?
I was messing around with solaris and decided to give Solaris 11 a try so I downloaded it from the Oracle website. After installing the OS, I went into the package manager and did an update. It told ...
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Why JDK is installed with Web/Application Servers?
I am upgrading the JDK version of the application server to 1.6. However, I dont understand why we need to place JDK on the application server instead of a JRE?
Since there is no need for any ...
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How to to specify network address for a dhcp client
I have setup and configured a DHCP server on a sparc running Solaris 10. Now I want to test the DHCP server by creating a DHCP client on another computer running Solaris 11.
I would like to know, how ...
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Error - reading DHCP configuration file. No such file or directory. Solaris 10
I'm currently working on a Sparc Sun-Fire-280R running Solaris 10 8/10. The machine has dhcp-server preconfigured to use NIS from the onset but I don't have any knowledge of where those config files ...
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Restore old SunOS tapes
I have some old SunOS tapes I need to look at the table of contents before I shred them.
Is there a Linux solution to restore these tapes?
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solaris to linux migration
I am trying to migrate from solaris to linux.
What are the hurdles I may face in migrating the file systems, and scripts and files?
Is there any changes needs to be done on the sh and ksh scripts?
I ...
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1answer
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Secure LDAP Alias Lookup through Sendmail
I'm trying to configure sendmail to use an LDAP lookup as an alias table.
I have this line in my config:
Kldapfullname ldap -k"uid=%s" -v"mail" -h"my-ldap-server"
I've been using that for a long ...
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Sendmail is not sending
I have a sendmail server on a Solaris 10 server that's stopped working. I can't seem to find anything about failed messages in /var/adm/sendmail. Here's what I'm seeing when I try to debug:
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SOLARIS + uname -v + OS version
when I type:
uname -v
from where this command (uname -v) take the OS version ? from which file/configuration-files ?
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1answer
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Clone hard drive Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)
I have an old 73gb SAS SCSI drive, so I plugged in a new 73gb SAS SCSI and I want to clone everything from it to the new drive..
I want to clone SCSI hard drive SD20 to SD21.
Is there an easy way to ...
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Solaris ZFS ACLs
I want to reset the ACLs on a directory tree so that the root directory ACL replaces the ACLs on all files and folders below it. How best can I achieve this?
Edit: Is this question poorly worded? Can ...
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How do I troubleshoot high vmstat sy
I have a Solaris server with very high vmstat sy time. What tools can I use to identify which process is causing the high system cpu usage?
kthr memory page disk ...
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booting problem on Solaris
I am not able to connect to my server via network and plug console cable via A Lom port and keep getting this message and can't do anything. since I am not able to go ok> prompt. I am logged thorough ...
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2answers
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apt-get on solaris
I am looking a file to download from the Internet. On Debian it can be installed using aptitude install librrd-dev or yum install librrd-dev on Ubuntu. I am looking the same file for Solaris but I ...
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HW RAID1 or ZFS mirror
Which is best ?
Mirroring 2 internal disks with HW raid and then putting ZFS filesystem on top
or
Using the 2 internal disks without HW Raid and creating a ZFS mirror with the 2 disks.
I've read ...
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mysql not started automatically upon server reboot
mysql not started @ server boot automatically but I can start manually as long as log as user "mysql" by using "/etc/init.d/mysql.server" the error I got on the log is
110809 9:16:21 InnoDB: ...
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Unix alternative for LDAPAdmin
I am looking for a Unix alternative for LDAPAdmin(Windows). Our OpenLDAP runs in Solaris and I can't browse it directly from Windows due to firewalls which won't be relaxed. Currently I use crude JNDI ...
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modification time of file in future, but timezone is set correctly
Files that I am creating at a Unix server are created with a modification time that lies 5 days in future. But when I check with the date command, it seems, that timezone and date are set correctly. :
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Is a Unix flavour (i.e. Solaris) any good for a VPS web server?
Lets just say I am a fanatic to using something such as this, and would be willing to purchase the appropriate licenses (or open version of Solaris maybe) and install it.
My questions are, do ...
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How do I access the Shared Folder on Virtual Box in Solaris 10 from Windows XP and Vice Versa
I need to access the Shared Folder that is offered by Virtual Box from Solaris 10, I heard that you have to mount it or something but I haven't succeeded with the info that I found from Google.
Or if ...
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Good Books for Solaris [closed]
Can anyone suggest a good book for Learning Solaris 10.
I know the Bill Calkins books but they are certification centric.
There is Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook as well which covers ...
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Solaris : No ping to logical Zone interface
I have the following issue on Solaris 11 Express.
I have a 1 running zone named Zone1, that I want to add a new interface to.
I bring up the interface bnx1:
ifconfig bnx1 plumb
Assign the address ...
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2answers
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how to check whether the hdd is idle?
I am using Solaris 11 Express and activated the power.conf which makes my disks go idling after 30 mins like a charm. I can hear the disks spin up when I access something ZFS disk-related.
Is it ...
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How to setup a HTTP/s Proxy behind Squid/Sockd Proxy
I'm looking for an (easy) way to have a http/s proxy server configured to proxy all traffic directed at the internet (speak not at a host in our subnet) to another proxy server.
A short explanation ...
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Cannot login to Solaris due to chown on /usr directory
Someone ran "chown -R username /usr" and now I have no way of logging into the box to change it back. SSH has been disabled, X Server won't start so I have no graphical GUI, and the console login ...
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Cannot login to Solaris due to chown on /usr directory
Someone ran "chown -R username /usr" and now I have no way of logging into the box to change it back. SSH has been disabled, X Server won't start so I have no graphical GUI, and the console login ...
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A process continues writing to renamed file on solaris
There is a java process that makes logging to some file, e.g. err.log.
I renamed it (w/o restarting java process), e.g. "mv err.log err.log0" and then see that java process continues logging to ...
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List supported terminal types?
Is there a portable way to list supported terminal types on all *N*X systems?
If not, what's the best way to get this list on Solaris?
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two servers cannot communicate
Two servers (unfortunately one web server one mysql server) were fine until last night.
Now, i can't ping, ssh, or open any lines between the two servers. Any other machine can get to them just ...
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Solaris SMF functionality in any open source or Linux kernel packages?
I use Solaris SMF to monitor, report, and automatically restart processes after a crash on Solaris systems. Is there anything similar either as portable open source or in the Linux kernel? For those ...
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How to debug silent hang on shutdown of Solaris 10?
We're experiencing a mysterious hang on shutdown of a newly-imaged Oracle/Sun Solaris 10 SPARC box. It is repeatable (in the same spot ... from what we can tell). We let it try to work itself out ...
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Where is the sudoers file on Solaris?
Where is the sudoers file in Solaris? Is it different between Solaris versions (specifically, 9 and 10)?
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Solaris: Prevent reverse DNS lookups except by using /etc/hosts
When running commands like netstat or snoop,, I would like not to reverse lookup because there are cases when either the number converts to name which converts to different number or the number ...
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/etc/hosts: What is loghost? (fresh install of Solaris 10 update 9)
#
# Internet host table
#
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
XX.XX.XX.XX myserver loghost
What is the purpose of loghost? If it was not for having loghost in there, ...
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netstat on fresh install of Solaris 10 update 9
I am attempting to decipher the below output
bash-3.00$ netstat -a
UDP: IPv4
Local Address Remote Address State
-------------------- -------------------- ----------
*.sunrpc ...
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Solaris NFS: user permissions
I am very new to NFS. I would like to make sure I am clear.
If the NFS server shares a directory rw,, and all the files in the directory are permissions 700 and user/group for those files is ...
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TCP failure on Solaris
I recently ran into a problem where a Solaris server could not establish a TCP socket on port 2126. From a packet capture I see this (note: A is a Solaris server, B is a router):
A sends SYN to B
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Using nohup on Solaris 10
I need to transfer a large number of files over SFTP (only between Solaris servers) which takes a very long time. I cannot keep my PC on for this duration. I tried:
nohup sftp server1
While the ...
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exclude all hidden files and directories in solaris
Unix newbie could use your help.
I'm using Solaris 10 and need to find all files, excluding all hidden files and directories. The ultimate goal is to put this in a script that will delete files 60+ ...
