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Solaris Error: No utmpx entry. You must exec “login” from the lowest level...
solaris console login: root Password: No utmpx entry. You must exec “login” from the lowest level “shell”. If you encounter this error, login with a regular user, become root and clear the file...
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Stopping and Starting eTrust Access Control
To stop eTrust Access Control, use secons -s root@solaris:/ # /usr/seos/bin/secons -s eTrust secons v5.30 (5.30) – Console Utility Copyright 2003 Computer Associates International, Inc. eTrust is now...
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Filesystem mounted but showing I/O error
I was having some I/O errors in filesystems below /var root@solaris:~ # df -h Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d0 7.7G 4.9G 2.7G 64% / /devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices ctfs 0K 0K...
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Display the status of a tape drive on Solaris
root@solaris:/ # luxadm probe No Network Array enclosures found in /dev/es Found Fibre Channel device(s): (Removed to show only the tape devices) Node WWN:500104f0009429c3 Device Type:Tape device...
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Solaris passwd: System error: no files password
root@solaris:/ # passwd emerson New Password: Re-enter new Password: passwd: System error: no files password for emerson. Permission denied In this case there was a problem in the /etc/passwd file....
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End of life information about HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Linux
If you need to know the if a release of an Unix operating system is still supported by the vendor, check these links for information End of life information about HP-UX (PDF) End of life information...
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Installing HP Server Automation client for Solaris
Installing HP Server Automation client for Solaris. For Solaris I included the flag –withrpm to have installation of software from Opsware enabled root@solaris:/tmp #...
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Creating a SVM metadevice and an UFS filesystem
The storage team created new LUNs and presented them to the server. I need to check which disks doesn’t have a label yet root@solaris:~ # echo | format | more Searching for disks…done...
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CA XCOM for Solaris
Check if the group xcomadm exists root@solaris:~ # grep xcom /etc/group xcomadm::60019: Install XCOM by using pkgadd root@solaris:/ # pkgadd -d /cdrom/CAXCOM.INS The following packages are available: 1...
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OpenSSH on Solaris 6, 7 and 8 error message: Couldn’t connect to PRNGD socket...
If you tried to start sshd on Solaris and appeared an error message saying it couldn’t connect to PRNGD socket, you need to start this daemon first. root@solaris6:/ # /etc/init.d/sshd start Couldn’t...
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