Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality

2011-12-16 1 min read Learning Solaris
If you work regularly on a Solaris or systems which do not have the “-r” (recursive grep) for grep, then you know what a lifesaver this command can be. Here is one from command line fu: find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n", FILENAME, NR, $0; }' {} \; The benefit of using awk here is that you can print the line number also 🙂 Continue reading

Add ssh key to remote host

2011-11-15 3 min read bash Learning Linux Solaris
Image via Wikipedia If you are working on recent versions of the *nix OS like Fedora or Ubuntu then you would know about the commad ssh-copy-id. But if you land up using one of the older versions like Solaris or something where the command is not present, then probably you need a simpler solution to this. One of the simplest solution is with a lot of assumtions, simply copy the id_rsa file to remote server and hope it works. Continue reading

Solaris dump analysis

2011-05-18 1 min read Solaris
I had to debug a solaris crash dump and had no ides. Google search wasn’t much useful until finally I found this article: http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p+AD0-448 have a look at this article, this suggests how to debug the core and find the offending process and root cause of the core in case of kernel panic. Related articles install all solaris software from http (amit-agarwal.co.in) Oracle puts out Solaris 11 compatibility tester (go. Continue reading

install all solaris software from http

2011-02-23 1 min read Solaris
If you are behind a firewall and install some software like top or wget then you can not use sunfreeware, and why because ftp is blocked. Now that is not the case any more, you can go the http mirror site of sunfreeware and here is the link for the same http://ftp.sunfreeware.com/ftp/pub/freeware/i386/5.10/ Note: you just need to change the words in bold for sparc or i386 and version of the solaris. Continue reading

\[Solution\] Solaris issue with wget not resolving Domain name (DNS name lookup failure)

2010-08-09 2 min read Solaris
Today I was working with <a class="zem_slink" title="Solaris (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://oracle.com/solaris">Solaris and after I had set up the <a class="zem_slink" title="NIS+" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIS%2B">NIS+, <a class="zem_slink" title="Name server" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server">DNS server, IP Address and completing the basic setting. I was using the pkg-get util from the freesunware.com The utility was using wget and it was failing constantly. From the looks of it, it was very clear that the wget utility was unable to find the <a class="zem_slink" title="IP address" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

Free Solaris Ebook

2010-07-15 1 min read Solaris
Please consider donating to the authour of the book if you can afford to. The book is really good. <a href="http://teachmesun.com" target="_blank">http://teachmesun.com
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