Instructions to Boot Solaris X86 CDROM to Single User mode: 1) Insert the Solaris x86 CDROM in the drive 2) Boot with the DCA floppy (2.6 and higher) or MDB floppy, (or correct Driver Update Boot diskettes) 3) Select the cdrom to boot when presented with...
My Three years old daughter told me these words!! My kid ( priyakari) started her playschool in Feb/13, She used to be a happy kid and very punctual to her school for the first 6 months. But suddenly, something changed in her schedule and she started...
The utmpx and wtmpx files are extended database files that have superseded the obsolete utmp and wtmp database files. The utmpx database contains user access and accounting information for commands such as who, write, and login. The wtmpx database contains the history of user access and...
In my earlier hands on lab post ( Hands on Lab – Replacing Failed Disks from ZFS Pools ( Simple / Mirrored / RaidZ )). I have explained the disk failure scenarios for ZPOOL mirror and RaidZ volumes, and this post is just continuation to that...
In our earlier post ( To get Started with ZFS ) , yogesh discussed about various ZFS pool and file system Operations. In this post I will be demonstrating the redundancy capability for different ZFS pools and also the recovery procedure from the disk failure scenarios....
We are living in a trend of remote System Administration and in real-time we rarely touch and feel a server that we are managing for 24×7 ( 24 Hours a Day and 7 days a Week). Although we don’t really deal with our servers physically, it...
I came across one unique parameter which I would like to share on our gurkulindia, specially for small business organisations where we dont have seperate power backups for DC. Has anyone noticed while working on Solaris boxes if you will power down (init 5 or poweroff...
