Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Booting / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified August 5, 2016
How Jumpstart Works: First Level Boot Process 1) When the “boot net – install” command is issued at the ok prompt, the JumpStart client looks for a Jumpstart boot server. 2) The boot server responds to the rarp request via the “rarpd” daemon (in.rarpd)....
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Below are the steps are to be performed on the the FTP server (i.e., the system that is being ftp’d to). By default, the FTP server will timeout an inactive session after 15 minutes.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
When a system controller (SC) is hung, try a few steps before pressing the Reset button on the SC.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified August 6, 2016
A simple way to clear a machine’s entire ARP cache without rebooting, or deleting entries manually or waiting for timeouts.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NFS
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To prevent network break-ins, the “-nosuid” option is used in “/etc/vfstab” and the “/etc/auto*” configuration files used for NFS mounting filesystems. In “/var/adm/messages”, (the system log files), the following type of message appears frequently: “Date machinename enterprise: save,uid 0:setuid execution not allowed”
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
When the Power button (the rightmost button on the top row of the keyboard) on the keyboard is hit, the system goes into suspend mode. In this mode, the system can not be operated, nor can anyone telnet to the system. To come out of suspend mode, the Power button...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Booting
by Ramdev · Published May 30, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Here I’m discuss some simple checks that helps to troubleshoot problems with startup scripts.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Maintenance / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified August 22, 2015
Upon boot-time startup, the VERITAS Volume Manager configuration daemon vxconfigd scans all the disks and reads the private regions on the disks. It has been observed in some rare situations, where – I/Os to a disk are failing, and – there are lengthy delays before the...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Below procedure gives the steps to configure NIS Master Server, Slave Server and Client services in both solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Configuring NIS Master Server You must login as root. 1. Define the NIS domainname. # domainname example-domain –> “example-domain” is the domain name. It...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
For Solaris System Administrators It is often necessary to find out all the related processes that are using a specific network port. There are several ways to accomplish this (lsof, pfiles, crash): Method 1: lsof examples: Ex: netstat -a shows a connection between hodware.port 36169 to...
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