Create a loopback device file with lofiadm: Test# /usr/sbin/lofiadm -a /path/to/image.iso This will create a device, for example, /dev/lofi/1 . Now It can be mounted as follows: Test# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
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Check your Metastats…. # metastat -p d60 -m d61 d62 1 d61 1 1 c0t0d0s6 d62 1 1 c0t1d0s6 d20 -m d21 d22 1 d21 1 1 c0t0d0s1 d22 1 1 c0t1d0s1 d10 -m d11 d12 1 d11 1 1 c0t0d0s0 d12 1 1 c0t1d0s0 1. Detach Sub-mirrors First, we need to break the mirror,
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Solaris Jumpstart overview Only a few articles describe how Jumpstart works under the hood. Here are my findings, all tested on an UltraSPARC based Sun Fire V120, Sun Fire V240 and Sun Fire T2000 servers: Boot the Sun box into OpenBoot Prompt (aka ok prompt) and invoke a network boot with: boot net -v — install rarp
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A few weeks back, a user asked me about running an automated task every other week. Though most of us use cron as needed to run those nice little tasks that clean up core files and evaluate the contents of log files in the middle of the night, running a task every other week or
Tune your system more by disabling all unwanted and unused daemons from running on the system. This can be done by editing the /etc/inetd.conf file and the rc files or directories. Modify the /etc/inetd.conf file and disable unnecessary daemons running on the system. # vi /etc/inetd.conf # # Configuration file for inetd(1M). See inetd.conf(4). #
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Tune your system more by disabling all unwanted and unused daemons from running on the system. This can be done by editing the /etc/inetd.conf file and the rc files or directories. Modify the /etc/inetd.conf file and disable unnecessary daemons running on the system. # vi /etc/inetd.conf # # Configuration file for inetd(1M). See inetd.conf(4). #
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Kernel This should be the first file backed up. If it gets deleted you can restore it back. This file is often named /kernel, /unix, or /vmunix. Password File Having a backup of the password file is a good idea, in case the system password file gets compromised. This is the file referred to as
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Listing all the preocess ids: # /usr/bin/ps -ef | sed 1d | awk ‘{print $2}’ Mapping the files to ports using the PID: # /usr/proc/bin/pfiles 2>/dev/null | /usr/xpg4/bin/grep or # /usr/bin/ps -o pid -o args -p | sed 1d Mapping the sockname to port using the port number: # for i in `ps -e|awk ‘{print
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At the very least, collect the following information for each system that you have: 1. Hostname: % hostname 2. Hostname aliases: % grep `hostname` /etc/hosts | awk ‘{ print $3 }’ 3. Host network addresses: % grep `hostname` /etc/hosts | awk ‘{ print $1 }’ 4. Host ID: % hostid 5. System serial number: On
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Installation 1. Install COMSTAR Server Utilities # pkg install storage-server # pkg install SUNWiscsi 2. Disable iscsitgt and physical:nwam Service – itadm gets confused with multiple physical instances; this assumes not using nwam. # svcadm disable iscsitgt # svccfg delete svc:/network/physical:nwam 3. Reboot Server # shutdown -i6 -g0 -y 4. Enable stmf service # svcadm
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