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Operating Systems Solaris /usr hosed up Post 302102588 by suntac on Thursday 11th of January 2007 11:50:17 AM
Old 01-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vr76413
when I give the following commmand under

cd /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin
#file eeprom
file: syntax error at line 1: `"\302^SÒ^D`^\^P\302ɢ^D`(^B\302^Y\302¥à\302"\302^^ê^D`^X^P\302â^D`' unexpected

I had restored from tape.
system is booting fine and showing no errors.

Please help
Thanks

Jaya
Sounds bad. restore this particular file from an older tape. maybe the trouble was already there when you made this backup.. Check the tape of the day before.

Regards, Johan Louwers.
 

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devnm(1M)                                                 System Administration Commands                                                 devnm(1M)

NAME
devnm - device name SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/devnm name [name...] DESCRIPTION
The devnm command identifies the special file associated with the mounted file system where the argument name resides. One or more name can be specified. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the devnm Command Assuming that /usr is mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6, the following command : /usr/sbin/devnm /usr produces: /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 /usr FILES
/dev/dsk/* /etc/mnttab ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mnttab(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 devnm(1M)
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