Solaris

Solaris to Linux porting
HI, I'm porting some scripts from solaris to Linux. As this group is not related to both, I need your help in analysing the difference in commands. I have stated what I have tried to analise: Solaris Linux gzcat Not found. Can be replaced by zcat. cfgadm Not found. hot... 18 Jun 2010 17:58

***Beginner Question*** Cron job to run on last Sunday each month in Solaris 10
underh20 <underh20.scubadiving(a)gmail.com> writes: [...] Please critique my program below. I'd like to get feedback from you experts out there :-) Thanks, Bill < body of /usr/bin/script> It's not really called "/usr/bin/script", is it? There's a standard command called "script", and it typically... 14 Jun 2010 16:14

Finally convinced that Oracle have killed Sun
I've finally convinced myself that Oracle have really killed Sun off now. My Solaris Subscription has expired and I cannot seem to get Oracle to send me a quote - what was wrong with buying off the web page? The response time from Oracle is just dreadful - 4 days to respond to a request and then it was palmed o... 24 Jun 2010 23:00

is devfsadm blocking
Hello, My query is: Is devfsadm command blocking ? meaning that will it return after completion of creating device entries in "/dev/ dsk" (or) will it return immdiately and devices are created after some time (2 or 3 seconds) ? Thanks and Regards, Manish Singh. ... 15 Jun 2010 10:55

SO COOL! Can convert my SUN-partner to ORACLE-partner. Yeah, so cool. Only $2500 (and up)
subj: SO COOL! Can convert my SUN-partner to ORACLE-partner. Yeah, so cool. Only $2500 (and up) God, that is just so great! Geez, I was really worried about this Oracle guy, that all he wanted was to milk Sun, then discard it when it was empty. Well, not so, guys! He's even letting us convert our Sun Part... 12 Jun 2010 19:19

book "solaris internals": new edition coming -- with zfs???
Just wondering -- that 2nd edition of solaris internals is pretty darned good. But zfs is not covered. Why, I wonder? What's his plan: to come out with a 3rd edition, that's pretty solaris 10 (11?) complete? OR -- perhaps he'd add a chapter or two on zfs, and stick it on the net, same place errata would go... 12 Jun 2010 13:45

zfs: what are the USES for clones? What make possible/easier?
just wondering. Lotsa stuff in 10-doc about "clones". What are the primary uses of them, ie why were they invented? And, what OTHER things have they turned out useful for? THANKS! David ... 24 Jun 2010 04:12

3 pages printed from Solaris 8 before the actual print job
When I click print I get a dialogue box with the following: request id is laserjet-bb-2 (standard input) When I click okay the pages are printed but with 3 pages before the actual print job. The information on the 3 pages is as follows: Page 1: User: root Host: hostname Class: hostname Job: print job number ... 12 Jun 2010 05:01

disk naming in solaris
Could some one let me know the easy way of understanding solaris disk naming conventions. It is bit difficult to understand. I know in linux it is named /dev/hda or /dev/sda(for scsi). Some one advise on this. ... 23 Jun 2010 02:59

Which CPU or core to disable?
We had a reboot recently that was a result of this hardware fault: --------------- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------- TIME EVENT-ID MSG-ID SEVERITY --------------- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------- Jun 03 ... 15 Jun 2010 18:45