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List the files in current directory sorted by size ? - ls -l | grep ^- | sort -nr List the hidden files in current directory ? - ls -a1 | grep "^\." Delete blank lines in a file ? - cat sample.txt | grep -v ^$ > new_sample.txt Search for a sample string in particular files ? - grep Debug *.confHere grep uses the string Debug to search in all files with extension.conf under current directory. 5. Display the last newly appending lines of a file during appendingdata to the same file by some processes ? - tail f Debug.logHere tail shows the newly appended data into Debug.log by some processes/user. 6. Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ? - du -k * | sort nr (or) du k . | sort -nr 7. Change to a directory, which is having very long name ? - cd CDMA_3X_GEN*Here original directory name is CDMA_3X_GENERATION_DATA. 8. Display the all files recursively with path under current directory ? - find . -depth -print 9. Set the Display automatically for the current new user ? - export DISPLAY=`eval who am i | cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d")" -f1`Here in above command, see single quote, double quote, grave ascent is used. Observe carefully. 10. Display the processes, which are running under yourusername ? - ps aef | grep MaheshvjHere, Maheshvj is the username. 11. List some Hot Keys for bash shell ? - Ctrl+l Clears the Screen. Ctrl+r Does a search in previously given commands in shell. Ctrl+u - Clears the typing before the hotkey. Ctrl+a Places cursor at the beginning of the command at shell. Ctrl+e Places cursor at the end of the command at shell. Ctrl+d Kills the shell. Ctrl+z Places the currently running process into background. 12. Display the files in the directory by file size ? - ls ltr | sort nr k 5 13. How to save man pages to a file ? - man <command> | col b > <outputfile>Example : man top | col b > top_help.txt 14. How to know the date & time for when script is executed ? - Add the following script line in shell script.eval echo "Script is executed at `date`" >> timeinfo.infHere, timeinfo.inf contains date & time details ie., when script is executed and history related to execution. 15. How do you find out drive statistics ? - iostat -E 16. Display disk usage in Kilobytes ? - du -k 17. Display top ten largest files/directories ? - du -sk * | sort -nr | head 18. How much space is used for users in kilobytes ? - quot -af 19. How to create null file ? - cat /dev/null > filename1 20. Access common commands quicker ? - ps -ef | grep -i $@ 21. Display the page size of memory ? - pagesize -a 22. Display Ethernet Address arp table ? - arp -a 23. Display the no.of active established connections to localhost ? - netstat -a | grep EST 24. Display the state of interfaces used for TCP/IP traffice ? - netstat -i 25. Display the parent/child tree of a process ? - ptree <pid> Example: ptree 1267 26. Show the working directory of a process ? - pwdx <pid> Example: pwdx 1267

27. Display the processes current open files ? - pfiles <pid> Example: pfiles 1267 28. Display the inter-process communication facility status ? - ipcs 29. Display the top most process utilizing most CPU ? - top b 1 30. Alternative for top command ? - prstat -a
1. Which of the following module type handles loadable system calls including "semaphore" op Which of the following module type handles loadable system calls including "semaphore" operation? sys 2. What field will cause the message Your password has expired to be displayed to the user? max change Latest Answer: Hi,The /etc/shadow file contains following fields.Login-id : Which indicates the username of that pe... Last Updated By praveen on May 17, 2006 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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3. What is the name of the daemon for print jobs submitted with "lpr"? lpd, in.lpd Latest Answer: in.lpd... Last Updated By ameycool on April 01, 2007 4. What command can you use to display all of your groups? id -a , groups Latest Answer: On AIX You can use groups Display full list ... Last Updated By Ravi D. on October 03, 2005 -To (Answers: 1) (Answers: 1)

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5. Consider the following crontab entry: 59 23 13 * 5 /wipe.disk What time will this cro Consider the following crontab entry: 59 23 13 * 5 /wipe.disk What time will this cronjob run? 11:59PM

Read / Answer 6. What command will install the patches: 123456-01 and 123457-01 if both are Subscribe located in the /just.pat What command will install the patches: 123456-01 and 123457-01 if both are located in the /just.patches directory? patchadd -M /just.patches 123456-01 123457-01, /usr/sbin/patchadd -M /just.patches 123456-01 12345701 Read / Answer 7. The NVRAM is also soldered to the main logic board or motherboard? False Latest Answer: It is a pluggable IC with yellow sticker on it, can be easily replaceble when it goes wrong.... Last Updated By shrikant on June 06, 2006 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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8. The lp command checks LPDEST and then PRINTER variables, while lpr command reverses this order? True 9. What parameter prevents files from accidentally being overwritten when doing redirection?

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10. What software install group do you need to select in order to load the compilers? none of these Latest Answer: Developer Solaris Software Group... Last Updated By V.Vinod David on January 19, 2007 11. How many different kill signals are there? 44 Latest Answer: 47EXIT HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM USR1 USR2 CLD PWR WINCH U... Last Updated By Ravi D. on October 03, 2005 (Answers: 1) (Answers: 2)

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12. On Solaris 8 where is the log file for a failed patch installation stored? /tmp/log. 13. What is the command to do an interactive boot from the ok prompt? boot -a Latest Answer: hiif os is up and runing, take help for man to eeprom command ... Last Updated By raghumyrao on August 16, 2006 14. Which file contains resources for the login screen behavior? Xconfig 15. According the SA-238 course book, the Boot PROM chip is permanently soldered to the main logic boar According the SA-238 course book, the Boot PROM chip is permanently soldered to the main logic board (motherboard)? True 16. What is the kernel abbreviation for the devices? instance 17. What file is the controlling file for the volume manager? /etc/vold.conf Latest Answer: we got 2 controlling files for the volume manager1. /etc/vold.conf 2. /etc/rmmount.conf... Last Updated By shpradeep9 on May 25, 2007 (Answers: 1) (Answers: 1)

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18. Where is the best place to try to locate patches you may wish to install on your box? sunsolve.sun.com

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What file contains the location of the name space configuration text files such as hosts.rev, named.local, etc? /etc/named.conf Read / Answer 21. Users and root can execute the "chgrp" command by default? True 22. What command will cause the system to rebuild the device tree? boot -r , The other is to type touch /reconfigure, and then reboot 23. What is the default kill signal numeric value? 15 24. Give the command that will display your default boot device? printenv boot-device Latest Answer: eeprom boot-device the alias name of the boot-device where as prtconf -vp | grep boot... Last Updated By junnuru on October 10, 2006 (Answers: 2) Subscribe Read / Answer Subscribe Read / Answer Subscribe Read / Answer Subscribe

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25. The hardware-level user interface that you see before the operating system has been started is call The hardware-level user interface that you see before the operating system has been started is called: open boot 26. Partition sizes can be set manually or from what configuration? /etc/format.dat 27. What file controls global variables for system wide values for the Bourne Shell? /etc/profile 28. Which of the following commands can tell you whether packets are being delayed or dropped on your n Which of the following commands can tell you whether packets are being delayed or dropped on your network? spray 29. What command enables a printer? enable

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31. What command will display the VTOC for disk c0t0d0s0? prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 32. Among the applications below, which one is not a client/server application?

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cron Read / Answer 33. When using the admin tool, the membership list for groups is separated by what? commas 34. What file do you put the unmask setting in? Latest Answer: The UMASK value for bourne and korn shell users can be modified system wide by editing the "umask" e... Last Updated By sridhar on September 23, 2005 35. .profile Latest Answer: Variables can be set to customize a user's work environment. Such as available editors and printers... Last Updated By sridhar on September 23, 2005 (Answers: 1) Subscribe Read / Answer Subscribe

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36. Given the following command: lp -d sparky -q 0 fastfile the file fastfile will be sent to the print Given the following command: lp -d sparky -q 0 fastfile the file fastfile will be sent to the printer by user sparky with a high priority? False 37. All group memberships are stored in the /etc/group file? False 38. What flag used with patchad will prevent a later back out by preventing patchad from backing up fil What flag used with patchad will prevent a later back out by preventing patchad from backing up files? If this flag is used, the patch cannot be removed. #NAME? 39. Why should you become a superuser prior to creating an additional swap file? A swap file that has root permissions makes it more difficult to overwrite 40. Where is the location of the "terminfo" directory? /usr/share/lib Latest Answer: The terminfo contains the direrctories starting from 1 to 9 and letters... Last Updated By sanil on September 23, 2006 41. What device file is specified when using the mount command? block 42. Which of the following can be an appropriate name for a cluster? SUNWadm 43. What command will allow you to schedule repetitive activities? cron 44. Which file is locted in the /kernel directory and is the Unix kernel for the system? (Answers: 1)

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genunix Read / Answer 45. Where are the templates stored that are copied into the user's home directories for their pers Where are the templates stored that are copied into the user's home directories for their personal customizations? /etc/skel 46. What network client accesses files and directories over the network and then caches them with Cache What network client accesses files and directories over the network and then caches them with CacheFS? autoclient 47. No matter what version of the OS you are running, the command you must use for adding patches is: & No matter what version of the OS you are running, the command you must use for adding patches is: "patchadd"? False 48. When you download patches to your system; it is suggested you store them in? /tmp 49. What is the command to see what hardware the kernel is aware of? prtconf 50. What file controls system wide password aging? /etc/default/passwd Latest Answer: /etc/shadow ... Last Updated By shyam gopal on March 23, 2006 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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51. What SPARC emergency keyboard sequence will take the system to the ok prompt (forth monitor) but wi What SPARC emergency keyboard sequence will take the system to the ok prompt (forth monitor) but will send output to TTYA? stop f 52. If you get a "Not on System Console" error; which file do you need to manipulate? /etc/default/login Latest Answer: Please try to edit /etc/default/loginExample:# vi /etc/default/login# CONSOLE=/dev/console (Insert a... Last Updated By senthilkumar on June 04, 2007 (Answers: 1)

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53. Where is the location of the logging that is done about the switching of users using the "su&q Where is the location of the logging that is done about the switching of users using the "su" command? /var/adm/sulog 54. Halt runs the rc0 scripts?

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False Read / Answer 55. What directory is used to store the at.allow and at.deny files? /usr/lib/cron Latest Answer: both are correct /usr/lib/cron is a link file which is linked with /etc/cron.d/ direcotory... Last Updated By batas_nep on February 20, 2007 (Answers: 2) Subscribe

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56. Where is the information stored about all the packages installed on your system at the present time Where is the information stored about all the packages installed on your system at the present time? /var/sadm/install/contents 57. What is the minimum requirements for the spooling directory on a print server? 20-25 mb 58. Using the crontab command, what is the command to display the lines in your crontab file? crontab -l, -l 59. Of the following file systems, which ones are of "fs' file system type? ufs, nfs, swapfs 60. Which NFS daemons are found on the NFS server? statd, mountd, nfsd, lockd Latest Answer: Deamons which run on server side nfsd, mountd, rpcbind, nfslockd, nfstatd Deamons which run on... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 06, 2007 (Answers: 2)

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61. What file will track all the switching of users that may be occurring? sulog

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62. What setting determines the default permissions for files and directories? umask Latest Answer: you can display the default user umask by typing #umaskdefault is 022The umask command should set th... Last Updated By ravipotlurigeek on April 11, 2007 (Answers: 1)

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63. What is the line in the .dtprofile that is set to true in order to use the "." files alon What is the line in the .dtprofile that is set to true in order to use the "." files along with CDE? dtsourceprofile 64. In the /etc/default/login file, which of the following will not allow you to login remotely as root In the /etc/default/login file, which of the following will not allow you to login remotely as root?

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CONSOLE= Read / Answer 65. Full path names are not required in the crontab file? False 66. What control character allows you to go from single user mode to multi-user mode? ^d Latest Answer: Control + D ... Last Updated By hanumesh on April 11, 2007 (Answers: 1) Subscribe Read / Answer Subscribe

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67. What is the default location of the packages when spooled with the "pkgadd -d -s spool"? /var/spool/pkg 68. What is the default spool directory for patches? There is no default spool directory for patches, but /var/spool/patches is commonly used Latest Answer: The Default Directory is var/sadm/patch It lis... Last Updated By joe on November 01, 2006 (Answers: 1)

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69. What is the command for seeing a long listing of all the processes running on your unix box? ps -ef Latest Answer: It's Solaris hence your ps -aux won't work. prstat is one more commonly used tool.... Last Updated By sag on June 06, 2007 (Answers: 2)

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70. What are the basic elements of PROM and NVRAM? Subscribe PROM= Post, Generic Device Drivers, User Interface, Default Parameters NVRAM= Eeprom, Time of Day, Ehternet Addss, Hostid & Battery Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: NVRAMNonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) is a special kind of RAM that retains data when the computer is turned ... Last Updated By Sampath Kumar on August 17, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer

71. How will you regain the logins (/etc/passwd) if you have corrupted the file ? copy from /etc/opasswd, /etc/oshadow file or by the utility pwconv Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: if you have a backup you can restore the spicefic file. other my not ha... Last Updated By raghumyrao on August 16, 2006 (Answers: 1)

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72. What is sticky bit? Subscribe When this is set on a directory, only the file in that directory can be removed or renamed if:1. User owns the directory2. User owns the file3. Super User Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: It is apply to files and directories.The user who has created the file/directory only he and root ca... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 03, 2007 (Answers: 3) Read / Answer

73. How do you check the cron jobs of other users, (as a super user)? Subscribe All users cron jobs are stored as files in this location /var/spool/cron/crontab/Username Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: The above would work. You could also run: crontab -l Username... Last Updated By Joseph on December 09, 2005 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer Subscribe

74. What does this file /etc/path_to_inst contain and what is the importance of this

file? It contains all the Physical Paths of devices and the instance names. The importance is that if you corrupt any paths while mirroring the disk or for any other reason Then copy from this location Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: /etc/path_to_inst contains each device, its instance name and number along with its physical name.... Last Updated By anandd on July 02, 2006 75. What is the command can reconfigure devices with out reboot? 1. devfsadm2. drvconfig Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: reboot -- -r... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 03, 2007 (Answers: 4) (Answers: 1) Read / Answer Subscribe

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76. How to restore a corrupted file system or trouble shoot bad super blocks for a Subscribe FS c0t2d0s5? Newfs N /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s5 (or any other slice)Fsck o b= /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s5 Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: Well you can also just use the #FSCK -N /dev.dsk/c0t2d0s5 to get the back up block number and then u... Last Updated By prasanthi on December 23, 2005 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer Subscribe

77. How will you add a virtual IP address to a server. Given the interface qe0 and IP 10.10.1.150? # ifconfig qe0:1 plumb# ifconfig qe0:1 10.10.1.150 up Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: #ifconfig interface_name addif ipaddress up... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 03, 2007 (Answers: 2)

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78. What are the different phases in boot process?

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loads boot block sector boot device PROM phase (post 0) Boot program phase (boot program loads startufsboot) Kernel Initialisation Phase (reads and initialises /etc/system i Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: Boot phases of Solaris Operating Environment are:1.boot PROM2.boot programs like bootblk,ufsboot&nbs... Last Updated By sankar on May 15, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer

79. How do you determine which Run Level the system is running? who -r Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: u can find from giving tis commandwho -r... Last Updated By krishna on March 07, 2007 (Answers: 2)

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80. How would you find out what version of Solaris is currently running? uname -a or uname -r Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: Don't think the OBP will help will it? I mean, isn't that before the operating system is loaded? ... Last Updated By MJ on June 19, 2007 (Answers: 7)

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81. What is significant about Generic_108528-nn? Subscribe This denotes the kernel update patch level/operating system version residual on the server Asked by: sridhar_madadi Read / Answer

82. What does reboot r do? Subscribe It finds newly attached devices and entries are created in /dev & /devices and /etc/path_to_inst is updated. Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: reboot -r (reconfigure the /dev & /devices)... Last Updated By Mohammed Tanvir on October 28, 2005 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer Subscribe

83. At the OBP how would see the device tree which will be used by the kernel during boot to configure At the OBP how would see the device tree which will be used by the kernel during boot to configure devices? show-devs Asked by: sridhar_madadi

Read / Answer 84. What is the difference between a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all? Subscribe Probe-scsi probes for local/onboard devices/peripherals off the onboard SCSI controller whilst probe-scsi-all identifies all devices attached to the onboard/local controller and separate Sbus , PCI c Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: Hi,both these commands are run at obp (open boot Prom) probe-scsi will probe the internal scsi and p... Last Updated By Jonty Marnoch on June 16, 2006 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer Subscribe

85. What would a XIR signal do to a server and why would it be used? Reset/interrupt it. Used if server has hung. Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: XIR signal used by reset command in solaris.reset(1M) allows you to reset one or more domains in one... Last Updated By ajay kalyan on May 30, 2006 (Answers: 1)

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86. How would you find out what kernel parameter SHMMAX is set to by one command? Sysdef|grep SHMMAX Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: sysdef -i |grep -i shm... Last Updated By NS on July 28, 2006 (Answers: 3)

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87. What is after the VTOC on the root filesystem? Bootblk Asked by: sridhar_madadi Latest Answer: VTOC resides on sector 0.After VTOC it boot block on Sector 1-15.After Boot Block, Primary super blo... Last Updated By Abhishek Jaiswal on October 30, 2006 88. What is difference between Process and Daemon? Asked by: Deepak Mandloi Latest Answer: Process:Process is nothing but the job which get executed at CPU.Deamon:Can say its background proce... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 03, 2007 89. How to install win xp after installing solaris for dual booting? Asked by: nagendra Latest Answer: Hi ,if you installed solaries first on top of solaries u can install vm ware and and than install t... Last Updated By gurudatta on December 04, 2006 (Answers: 3) (Answers: 3) (Answers: 2) Read / Answer Subscribe

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90. Logged into the system using telnet.As a system administrator, how would you

figure out the system Logged into the system using telnet.As a system administrator, how would you figure out the system transaction is slow between the system you logged into and from the system you did telnet login? Asked by: sridhar.d.l Read / Answer 91. Why we use / for mount any file system? Asked by: magdi Latest Answer: If i am not Wrong , No need to specify / if the mount point we are going to specify is under the cur... Last Updated By rajasekar on December 14, 2006 92. What is the big difference between /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk ? Asked by: praveen Latest Answer: Basically raw devices till of before creation of filesystemsBlock devices are user after creation of... Last Updated By nitin on July 11, 2006 93. How many cpu's we can connect to a spark machine ? Asked by: praveen Latest Answer: We can connect upto 106 CPU in Sun machine.... Last Updated By rsivareddy on June 06, 2007 94. How can we find RAM size in solaris server ? Asked by: praveen Latest Answer: prtconf -v is used to display Ram memory size... Last Updated By joe on November 03, 2006 95. How to configure mail server in sun solaris? Asked by: nagaraju.b Latest Answer: hii need configure the mail server for remote client & to take the back of those mailsthankssath... Last Updated By sathiya on July 28, 2006 96. How to find 32 or 64 bit system instances of OS? Asked by: satheesh Latest Answer: "isainfo -kv" displays whether 32 bit or 64 bit OS in installed, and it also displays Hardware archi... Last Updated By chaitu on July 08, 2006 (Answers: 3) (Answers: 2) (Answers: 7) (Answers: 4) (Answers: 4) (Answers: 3) Subscribe

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97. When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for user name and password.What could be the When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for user name and password.What could be the reason and what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem? Asked by: rkarunmozhi 98. Which obp command has a premenent allais? Asked by: selvakumar Latest Answer: When NValias need is: In case system can not boot from primary disk and it is needed to make anot... Last Updated By chaitu on July 08, 2006 (Answers: 2)

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99. How to load a source from a unix box to same unix box target without copying in to

the local mach How to load a source from a unix box to same unix box target without copying in to the local machine and please tell me, How to rig up the mapping and where to give the path? Asked by: binoy_pa Read / Answer 100. If in solaris 8 one server has more than one network interface cards, how do you determine which i If in solaris 8 one server has more than one network interface cards, how do you determine which is primary? In solaris 8 how do you determine how many Ram cards exist in a server and in which slots are they inserted? Asked by: Nitin Subscribe

Read / Answer 101. How can i disable STOP+A utility on SUN machines, which brings system into OK> prompt? Asked by: Chaitu Latest Answer: kbd -a disable to disable the STOP+A from the Keyboad... Last Updated By junnuru on October 07, 2006 Subscribe

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102. What is the command for Install any software like oracle in Unix/Solaris? Why am I not getting col What is the command for Install any software like oracle in Unix/Solaris? Why am I not getting colors while installing solaris9 even though it displays colors during test of KDM configuration? How to install solaris9 in NON GUI mode? Asked by: sriharshathotakura 103. i need a solaris Interview quetion latest one2006 updated Asked by: stalin Latest Answer: hi this jayakumar. right now i am looking for job in solarais sytems administrator. plz help me how ... Last Updated By jayakumar on September 04, 2006 104. How do we know how many lan cards we have in server? Asked by: kavalikasi Latest Answer: Use the command # ifconfig -a plumbRegardsSuresh.... Last Updated By Suresh on June 15, 2007 105. How to take cron jobs backup is there any tool? Asked by: Prakash 106. Define major number and minor number ? Asked by: chikki Latest Answer: luey% ls -l sd@3,0:a*brw-r----- 1 root sys &nbs... Last Updated By jana on September 06, 2006 107. What is the alternate command for TOP? Asked by: Rabi Latest Answer: prstat is the alternate command for TOP.Thanks,Kannan... Last Updated By Kannan S on February 05, 2007 (Answers: 6) (Answers: 1) (Answers: 5) (Answers: 3)

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108. How to change user password forcebly? Asked by: Anil Attarde Latest Answer: passwd -f username... Last Updated By junnuru on October 07, 2006 (Answers: 1)

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109. What is the directory to check whether the cron jobi is completed? Asked by: joee27 Latest Answer: /var/cron/log will indicate you about the cron job completion. Just look for the PID whi... Last Updated By Hari CG on November 12, 2006 110. What is the difference between hardmount and softmount? Asked by: ajay Latest Answer: What is the difference between hardmount and softmount?Answer:Hardmount Errors will be generate freq... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 03, 2007 (Answers: 3) (Answers: 1)

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111. how to configure solaris volume manager Asked by: mallikarjun 112. How swap memory can be allocated to certain process ..what is command to give swap space to certai How swap memory can be allocated to certain process ..what is command to give swap space to certain process?

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Read / Answer 113. 1.Tell me the files used in Custom Jump Start?2.What is the signal while killing Subscribe process?3.How to i 1.Tell me the files used in Custom Jump Start?2.What is the signal while killing process?3.How to install boot block in solaris?4.What is state database(SVM Solaris)?5.How you create state database?6.How to grow the file system(steps)?7.If root file system filled what you do?8.How you check the logs solaris?9.Raid 1 Mirroring(Explain Mirroring)?10.uptime,top output?11.How to check processor information?12.If password file get corrupted how you restore? Read / Answer 114. What is the boot process in solaris 9? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: Boot process in solaris can be divided in to four parts.1. Boot Eprom2. Boot Program Phase3. Kernal ... Last Updated By Himanshu Gaur on March 14, 2007 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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115. You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but not other subnets. What is wrong? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: default router should be added.create /etc/defaultrouter with gateway ipand give the following comma... Last Updated By Suresh Krishnan on February 27, 2007 (Answers: 1)

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116. When would you want to reconfigure the kernel and how would you do it? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: Hi Whenever we connect device to our (Answers: 1)

system(SPARC) in case if it is not booted after using de... Last Updated By Mohammed Mujahid on February 28, 2007 117. What are the differences between patches and patch bundles? Asked by: lakshmananit Latest Answer: A patch is a collection of files and directories that replace or update existing files and directori... Last Updated By Larry J Jones on March 03, 2007 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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118. explain clearly kernel mode and message queue system in the inter process communication Asked by: yagnam ramesh babu

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119. What is the difference between Format and Mount? Asked by: Ramesh Latest Answer: Format command is used to see and modify disk available at that timeThrough format we can partition,... Last Updated By Himanshu Gaur on March 14, 2007 (Answers: 1) Read / Answer

120. Run Levels in Solaris 9.0 Subscribe How can we check the current Run level in Solaris? What are the different run levels in Solaris 9.0? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: Who - r will display the run level in solaris ... Last Updated By hanumesh on April 28, 2007 (Answers: 2) Read / Answer

121. What is the command to check consistency/errors of a file system? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: You can use "fsck" for this.For example,# fsck /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1... Last Updated By toughindian on March 28, 2007 122. What is the command to check Disk utilisation? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: hi all,we can u DU -k ( which would display the disk usage ,i.e, the # of blocks and # of disk space... Last Updated By hari pradeep on March 15, 2007 123. How do you boot from a Network with jumpstart? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: In ok modeboot - net... Last Updated By K.M.Kavimani on April 09, 2007 124. How do you view shared memory statistics? Asked by: hgaurh 125. What is the command to create new file system? Asked by: hgaurh Latest Answer: FORMAT (a HD ).type P (partition Table)type P (print partiton table)partiton a table and (Answers: 2) (Answers: 1) (Answers: 1) (Answers: 2)

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select a DI... Last Updated By hari pradeep on March 15, 2007 126. what is the difference between priority scheduling and round robin scheduling? Asked by: prakash Latest Answer: Priority schedulingIn priority scheduling scheduler selects tasks on basis of their priority. The pr... Last Updated By Himanshu Gaur on April 26, 2007 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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127. What are the steps you have to enter while installing a new hard disk Asked by: vimalshankar

Read / Answer 128. What is the difference between ufsdump and ufssnapshot Asked by: mrsreeni Latest Answer: The ufsdump command copies files. directories, or entire file systems from a hard disk to tap... Last Updated By ravipotlurigeek on April 11, 2007 (Answers: 1) Subscribe

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129. What is the difference between NIS and NIS+? NIS+ was mainly designed to address problems that NIS cannot address. Asked by: bhaskar Latest Answer: NISNIS+Machine name and user's name can be the sameMachine name and user names must be unique. F... Last Updated By amar on May 31, 2007 130. how to recover when bootblock is corrupted ? Asked by: saravanakumar Latest Answer: You will need to boot off your mirror if you have one, if not a CD or the Jumpstart server:boot <... Last Updated By Andy on May 22, 2007 131. How to increase Inode numbers in Solaris10? Asked by: tgajam (Answers: 1) (Answers: 1)

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132. how to recover if /etc directory deleted, there is no cdrom drive, no network boot or Subscribe what happened how to recover if /etc directory deleted, there is no cdrom drive, no network boot or what happened if /etc directory deleted? Asked by: murthy Read / Answer 133. what are the situations where kernel rebuilds? Asked by: Gopinath Subscribe