I am wondering if there is an easy way of converting UNIX system time to conventional format (day/date/year/24 hr time) and writing it to a file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How would I remove a file on linux/UNIX with the name "-rf"? Thank you.

Dear Sir/MadamWhen I suspend my Sun Enterprise 2 (UltraSparc II 296MHz CPU) a few weeks. I can't boot it on now, (I think battery dead) when system after starting real time clock and display OS version information (banner), system halt at:WARNING: Time-of-Date chip had incorrect date; check ...

hello allwhat is the command to determin what port is used by the applications..for example in NT we give net stat command.Appretiate your responce.regards

plz mention the correct choices if they are selected wrong correct them and leave the wrong ones too so that i can see that.thanxWho can use chmod 2750 filename command?A. SuperuserB. Group managerC. Anyone in the groupD. The file ownerAnswer: D (is it right)Question No: 209Which of the ...

Hi,How will I check the sub net configuration?How can I change the sub net value?version of my system is SUN OS 5.6Thanks...

Hi All,I have recently applied the patch 110615-09 and since then I receive an error 'dbm map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases' I have read through as much documentation as I can find and have no clue as to the source of the problem.If anyone can point me in the right direction I ...

I am fairly new to Solaris, and would appreciate a bit of help here. I just installed Solaris 8 on my Sun Ultra E2 box, and was trying to change some environmental variables there. However, the .profile file (or any other file where I would be able to find environmental variables for other ...

I have a gauntlet based firewall that is damaging emails (in a consistent manner) as they pass through.The damage always occurs in the attachment which is encoded as printed quoteable. Network sniffing captures of the SMTP traffic show the solaris box is inserting an extra "." into the data ...

Can anyone tell me how to go about logging imap and pop sessions using syslog. I'm trying to determinewho, if anyone, is still using an existing imap and pop server.Thanks,Kenny_Tex

Could anyone debug my mpstat output . Do i need to upgrade my cpu ?Mpstat output-CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 140 316 1063 654 10907138 1040 11301170 82 340 260 1248 816 10987638 1140 110710 130 77CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw ...

Hi all, My Sun SPARC Ultra 10 Desktop Server is getting shutdown automatically. on seeing /var/adm/messages Jul 14 14:20:20 fnsun /usr/lib/power/powerd: [ID 816618 dameon error] Auto Shutdown Jul 14 14:20:20 fnsun cpr: [ID 535284 Kernel Notice] System is being suspended This is being very ...

Good morning,As NIS don齮 support password aging and i can齮 upgrade my systems to NIS+, i齧 looking for a way to implement password aging under NIS.I齰e wrote two csh scripts to control the age of user齭 password in this way:-The first script is called from the ?login?of user when he logs into the ...

Hello, I have two Netra T1 105 servers and would like to connect them to eachother via serial so if one goes down I can reboot and use LOM remotely. What type of rj45 cable to I need to connect the two LOM serial ports to eachother? I have purchased a crossover but have not tested it yet. Any ...

Hello,from the CLI ( ksh : mainly ) I need to be capture what type of OE installation was originally done.To put it another way, how do I tell if the OS was installed as a "Core", "End User", "Entire", or "FUll OEM" distribution.

I have an E250 with (2) 400Mz Ultra II CPU's and IGB of RAM. I am using Solaris OE 9 04/03 and SunRay Server 2.0. I have installed gnome 2.0 without any errors.My issue is that if I log in to console as root and select gnome 2.0, /usr/bin/gnome-session spawns about 75 defunct process. This ...

Hi, I have a sun blade 100 workstation, where the man pages and documentation are available. when I issue command "man ifconfig" on workstation console, i am getting the man pages, but if i telnet to the same sun workstation, from my windows desktop and issue "man ifconfig", i am NOT getting ...

HiI have a workstation with solaris 2.6, and I applied the last recommended cluster and change the video card (same model, just a newer one).After that, I found that I can't change the row/columns settings in a xterm (orin a telnet session), even using "stty -a", I can齮 get the values for ...

Hi,I need to change the ip on a solaris8 server whose current ip is something like 1.23.44.55 and I need to change it to some other number i.e. 2.33.44.555. Would I be able to do this if I only change modify the old ip entry on the /etc/host file? Any comments or suggestions will be greatly ...

We work in a secure environment with an obligation to check each workstation at the start and end of each day to ensure that users have logged off. With over twenty workstations on the network, we are forced to go to each workstation and move the mouse or tap some keys to "wake up" the monitor ...

Hi,I am tryig to set up a secure way for users to sftp to my server.I found this link ... http://www.c2group.net/howtos/chroot.html... but it seems to leave out one import point.When I test out the account like the document describes the user is not "jailed".What I think was left out is how do I ...

I am building a NOC and looking for tech on central logging. What are other sysops doing in terms of centralizing logging for various platforms: cisco routers / switches, solaris, linux boxes. Anything to facilitate central logging for the purpose of expedition or problem resolution is welcome; ...

Hi,I am running Solaris 8 ( 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 )on a SunFire V120.I also have a Sony TSL-A500C tape unit attached to it.The Tape unit has been tested on a SunFire V120 Sol 8 in Australia.The tape unit was then sent to New Zealand. ( there are actually 3 tape units ...

I see this htt_server process running on port 9010 ... what could it be?bash-2.03$ uname -aSunOS zeus 5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100bash-2.03$ /usr/bin/ps -ef | grep htt_root312311 0Jul 15 ?0:00 htt_server -port 9010 -syslog -message_locale C ...

hello,I have a tcp_wrapper setup with hosts.allow and hosts.deny. After the network switch over I am unable to ssh in. If I comment out #all: all in hosts.deny then I can ssh in. When I try to ssh in I get this error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host debug1: ...

Hello,having a problem getting machine to boot from and external scsi cdrom. When I boot up through the OS I can mount the cdrom without a problem. When I try boot cdrom it just comes back with error "cant open boot device" I have tried two external cdroms (one is a sun cdrom), and ...

We had a power outage here on our SUN E250 box, now when the system comes up the temp directory is "read only".. Any ideas?This is even for "root" user..Even in maintenance mode trying to view the man pages and it tells me it cannot create temp fileI am Unix newbie.. Thanks..Dale ...

I have 2 Luns on a A1000 one LUN is maxed out, I added an 18GB disk to the A1000, can I enlarge the maxed out Lun?

Is there any date set for de-support SunOS 5.6?Thanks.Liching

I don't seem to be getting much response from my questions.Are thay inappropriate for this forum?

Hi,I m a newbie to sun admin, can somebody explain me how to connect two systems using cross over cable. I have got one more question.I tried to run a 3d solid modelling software on a sun system by remote logging in from another sun system both are which connected using LAN network. This ...

Hello!The Software Companion CD which comes with the Solaris 9 (4/03) release contains KDE 3.0 along with other applications. It gets installed through WebStart Installation method, but we cannot use it, nor any shortcut appears for it. Also no options appears on the Login screen. NOW HOW TO ...

Does anyone know what the ASCII code is for the Euro symbol (on Solaris 7/Sun 450e)?.

I have a Netra 20 with 2 mirrored HD using disksuite. I kept 2 gigs for swap space (fs mirrored too). Solaris tools such as df do not give me the right amount of total swapspace. What am I missing?Any help is appreciated!LouUseful excerpts; From metastatd10: MirrorSubmirror 0: d11State: Okay ...

As the name states, I'm semi cluless when it comes to UNIX administration, But I'm not altogether an idiot. I'm a LAN administrator (predominate WIN 2k & Win2k3 ) that inherited a UltraSparc , w/ instructions on changing the ROOT "access". As, I blindly follow'd the directions, ...

hi,I've a requirement to 'su -' to another user and stop a daemon started by this user, how can I do this in a borne shell script, so that I can automate this routine?thanks.cmk168

I want to find network traffic to a certain unix machine. I need to know all the logins for a certain time period ( for a week) with their source and destination and which command/process was run. I tried to get this info by running netstat but not much of a help. Any suggestions ...

My Solaris 2.6 machine has been setup to allow root login only from console. Usually we'll login as other accounts and su to root.After enabling the password aging and login retries count on the machine, there have been a long time since my last login. But recently, the system returns ...

Hi all,Currently I'm working on writing some capacity management scripts for our Sun boxen which are hooked up to the EMC centralised storage.A bunch of our boxen come in pairs, as they often do, and brother and sister can simultaneously see each other's disks. In the case of a fail over ...

Hello Folks, Hoping someone can help me here. Here is the scenario:Why won't this work:From a JumpStart Client:shell> cp /etc/mnttab /a/etc/mnttabshell> dfReturns:/(sv2249:/jumpstart/OS/sol_8_202_sparc/Solaris_8/Tools/Boot): 6392704 blocks557967 files/tmp(swap ): 9109488 blocks53633 ...

Hi,I feel the following situation suggests to add another security-mode to the OBP other than full, command or none.none: Zero security! full: full security. This enforces that the system cannot reboot by itselfcommand: middle-way between none & full. A way to break the eeprom password is ...

We are currently running Solaris 8 on a couple of machines and have noticed from time to time the automounter will stop responding. We can re-create this error if at the machine root (i.e. / ) typing 'find ./ -name [blah,blah,blah] -ls' where blah,blah,blah is a file name. We use the defaults ...

I've problem regarding of Sun Fire V880. This server I used as Sunray server. Last week this server hang (frequently happened) and I try to reboot but the problem is this server cannot be boot up easily. I try to turn off and turn on again many times and keep waiting about 30 minutes for ...

Ok. I have an Ultra 10 that randomly fails on boot. After working with the system for a few days, here is what I know.When the system is booting up without any intervention, the messages on the screen are:Initializing MemoryBoot device : disk Files and args :Sometimes it boots up, sometimes it ...

This is the weirdest thing...I have a Solaris system where there are some filesin a directory which cannot be listed by 'ls'. The filenames do not begin with a period, so they're not"hidden" files in the usual Unix sense. 'ls -l' won'tlist them, and they aren't found with "find". Yet ...

I have a question. I have users logging into our Ultra Enterprise 5000 from more than one workstation. Is there a way to limit their ability to log in to the E5000 to one session(at a time) only. We have a limited number of user licenses for our Database application.We have users logging other ...

Hello,I've a Solaris 8 system (2/02) with solstice Disk Suite running on it. I want journaling on it's filesystems to avoid filesystem crashes.I'm using solaris ufslogging feature on machines without disk management software, so I would like to use ufslogging on the machines with disk suite ...

Pleas can any one help me I have got this taskBasically I have got this guy at work who have been generating a load of configuration files, each time he modifies a file he save the old one and put a date stamp on it e.g. {device}.cfg.20030812 Now he needs me to create a script that will ...

Hello,I am new to SUDO and would like to know if there is a command line option to include the password. I am trying to run a series of commands, which need to be run as SUDO, but I am prompted for the password when ever the script starts. I can not change the sudoers file to have NOPASSWORD. I ...

Greetings all-What, if any, ramifications to rolling back the system date, perhaps 6 months or more for testingpurposes? There is no interaction with a RDBMS such as Oracle, but we are in a NIS/NFSenvironment. Thanks in advance for any/all input.