Archive for August, 2007
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
To recover root password
1. Boot with Solaris 8 CD
2. ok> boot cdrom -sw
3. # csh
4. # setenv TERM sun or
5. # export TERM=sun or #export TERM=vt100
6. # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a (for Ultra)
7. # vi /a/etc/shadow
(before modification)
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
1) create /etc/hostname.<interfacename>:<n> containing the hostname of the virtual IP
example:
/etc/hostname.hme0:1
2) add the hostname and virtual IP to /etc/hosts
3) use the following commands to configure the interface:
ifconfig <interfacename>:<n> plumb
example:
ifconfig hme0:1 plumb
ifconfig <interfacename>:<n> <IP address> netmask <netmask> broadcast + up
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
Step 1: ok probe-scsi-all
Step 2: ok show-disks
Step 3: Set boot-device
Method 1: OBP
ok nvalias
eg.
ok nvalias disk2 /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0:a
ok nvalias disk2 /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3,1/disk@3,0
ok setenv boot-device disk2
ok reset
Method 2: nvedit
ok nvedit
0: devalias disk2 /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0:a
^c (control c)
ok nvstore
ok setenv use-nvramrc? true
ok reset
Method 3: Using the existing device ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
(for V-series, no entry in /etc/system)
bge0:
(no entry in /etc/system: add this script to rc2.d)
S68net-tune
################################################
#!/sbin/sh
# /etc/rc2.d/S68net-tune
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
echo "Implementing Solaris ndd Tuning Changes "
# bge-Interfaces
# bge-Interfaces
# Force bge0 to 100fdx autoneg off
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100fdx_cap 1
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100hdx_cap ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
Disk Quotas under Solaris
*************************
Create a quotas file (on root of filesystem):
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# /usr/bin/touch quotas
# /usr/bin/chmod 600 quotas
Display user's quota on all mounted file systems where quotas exist:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
# quota -v username
which will output something similar to this:
Disk quotas for user1 (uid 1175):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
from the local zone, run:
arp -a | grep SP
example:
# arp -a | grep SP
bge1 zone1.domain.com 255.255.255.255 SP 00:03:ba:51:37:8e
bge0 host1.domain.com 255.255.255.255 SP 00:03:ba:51:37:8d
bge1 zone2.domain.com 255.255.255.255 SP 00:03:ba:51:37:8e
bge2 zone3.domain.com 255.255.255.255 SP 00:03:ba:51:37:8f
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
Enable/Disable FTP
in:
/etc/inetd.conf
uncomment/comment line:
##ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd in.ftpd
start/stop:
/etc/init.d/inetsvc start
/etc/init.d/inetsvc stop
reverse process to disable
To Disable/Enable ftp in Solaris 10:
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svcadm disable ftp
svcadm enable ftp
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
If a tarball includes the full path, use the following command to extract
it to the current directory instead of the full path:
pax -rv -f filename.tar -s ',^/,,'
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
Creating Solaris Packages
-------------------------(This is certainly not the ONLY way to do this, so I'll just show you how I did it, and you
can investigate the other ways and decide which one works best for you... Here are a few
links)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/html/creating.solaris.packages.html
http://www.sunfreeware.com
My version is basically a composite ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
------ Creating a Zone in Solaris 10 ------
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To view a list and status of currently installed zones:
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# zoneadm list -vi
ID NAME STATUS PATH
0 global running /
1 jumpstart running /u01/zones/jumpstart
To create a new zone:
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# zonecfg -z <zonename>
(if the zone has not ...
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