Installing a Solaris Package Using the CLI
The best way to learn about adding packages is to use an example. In this section, you'll download a package from http www.sunfreeware.com called gpw-6.94-sol10-sparc-local.gz, an application developed by Tom Van Vleck that generates random passwords. Let's look more closely at the package name to determine what software this package contains The .gz extension indicates that the package file has been compressed using gzip after it was created. Other possible extensions include .Z, which...
pwconv
You can use the pwconv command to convert systems that do not have a shadow password file to use password shadowing. Most if not all modern systems would use password shadowing. However, if the etc shadow file does not exist, the encrypted password is stripped from etc passwd, and is replaced by x, indicating that the password for each user is shadowed. A shadow password file would then be created using the encrypted passwords extracted from the password file. However, a more common use of...
smuser
The smuser command is used to perform operations on user accounts, whether the data is retrieved from the local user databases or from NIS NIS . Although it is similar to smmultiuser, it is generally used only to add single users rather than a set of users in batch mode. In addition to adding, deleting, and modifying user records, existing user data can be retrieved and listed. One of four options must be passed to the command upon execution add, which adds an entry delete, which deletes an...
niscat
The niscat command is used to retrieve the contents of objects within the domain primarily the data contained within NIS tables. For example, all hosts listed within the domain can be listed by using the following command moorea niscat -h hosts.org_dir moorea.panther.edu moorea 10.58.64.16 borabora.panther.edu borabora 10.58.64.17 tahiti.panther.edu tahiti 10.58.64.18 orana.panther.edu orana 10.58.64.19 Alternatively, you can use the niscat command to examine the contents of the Passwd table 0...
I Dvv
The TCP statistics are more mixed there were 324 tcpAttemptFails, but given that there were 33,786 tcpActiveOpens at the time netstat was run, this is quite reasonable. The ratio of tcpInInorderSegs to tcpInUnorderSegs i.e., received in order vs. not received in order was 229 1, which is not uncommon.
System Configuration
Solaris provides a simple way to view all the hardware devices on your system. This information can be used to configure your system. For example, by identifying the disk devices on your system, you can correctly select targets for formatting. The prtconf command is used for displaying system information System Configuration Sun Microsystems sun4u Memory size 128 Megabytes This section shows the hardware architecture Sun4u, which means that this is a Sun-4 system with an UltraSPARC CPU and that...
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Operating systems are the building blocks of computer systems, and provide the interface between user applications and computer hardware. Solaris 10 is a multiuser, multitasking, multithreading operating environment, developed and sold by Sun Microsystems http www.sun.com . Solaris is one implementation of the UNIX operating system that draws on both the System V AT amp T and Berkeley BSD traditions. It has risen from little more than a research project to become the dominant UNIX operating...