\[Solution\] 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

The power of find command in Linux โ€“ advanced.

2010-05-24 2 min read Linux
Generally whoever uses Linux, would know about the find command. Find the man page <a href="http://amit.themafia.info/phpMan.php?parameter=find&mode=man" target="_blank">here. There are also lots of blogs, tutorials and other articles on find command on the web, so why write another one. Because it&#8217;s worth every word spent on it ๐Ÿ™‚ find is a very powerful command, let&#8217;s see how (options for find command from man page and usage): โ€“depth โ€” Process each directory&#8217;s contents before the directory itself. Continue reading