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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cannot run commands Post 302174742 by BigTool4u2 on Wednesday 12th of March 2008 02:41:18 AM
Old 03-12-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShawnMilo
Root has things in its path that the normal user doesn't. So, as root, if you can run a program named sysdef, run this command: which sysdef

The response will be something like: /sbin/sysdef

If the application truly doesn't require root permissions, then you should be able to run it as a regular user by typing in the full path: /sbin/sysdef

If this works, you can alias the command: alias sysdef="/sbin/sysdef"

You should then be able to run it by just typing the name. If that works, you could consider adding that alias command to your ~/.bashrc (for bash -- research the proper location for other shells), for your convenience.

ShawnMilo
ShawnMilo, thanks for your input.

Under the normal user account I did the 'which sysdef' and I got the output 'no sysdef in /usr/bin /usr/openwin/bin /usr/ucb'. So I ran the same command as root and I got '/usr/bin/sysdef'. From my understanding of that it's is showing me that the sysdef files are located in the /usr/bin. What I attempted to do next was to create a soft link between the sysdef in the /usr/bin to the /usr/bin/local; I found out that the sysdef files are not in there. The command I used for that is "ln -s /usr/sbin/sysdef /usr/local/bin/sysdef". Had a look in the /usr/bin/local and the sysdef was there. Tried to run the sysdef command as the normal user and still got nothing 'command not found'. Have I attempted to go about this the wrong way. My knowledge of Unix is very rudimentary so if someone could point out where I am going wrong I would be more than grateful.

Rgds,
Everett
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

sysdef

sysdef(1M)                                                System Administration Commands                                                sysdef(1M)

NAME

       sysdef - output system definition

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/sysdef [-i] [-n namelist]

       /usr/sbin/sysdef [-h] [-d] [-i] [-D]

DESCRIPTION

       The  sysdef utility outputs the current system definition in tabular form. It lists all hardware devices, as well as pseudo devices, system
       devices, loadable modules, and the values of selected kernel tunable parameters.

       It generates the output by analyzing the named bootable operating system file (namelist) and extracting the configuration information  from
       it.

       The default system namelist is /dev/kmem.

OPTIONS

       -i              Prints  the  configuration information from /dev/kmem. This is the default and only needs to be specified if the configura-
                       tion information from both /dev/kmem and the system file specified with the "-n namelist" option is needed.

       -nnamelist      Specifies a namelist other than the default (/dev/kmem). The namelist specified must be a valid bootable operating system.

       -h              Prints the identifier of the current host in hexadecimal. This numeric value is unique across all Sun hosts.

       -d              The output includes the configuration of system peripherals formatted as a device tree.

       -D              For each system peripheral in the device tree, display the name of the device driver used to manage the peripheral.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Sample output format

       The following example displays the format of the sysdef -d output:

       example% sysdef -d
       Node 'SUNW,Ultra-5_10', unit #-1
           Node 'packages', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'terminal-emulator', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'deblocker', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'obp-tftp', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'disk-label', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'SUNW,builtin-drivers', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'sun-keyboard', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'ufs-file-system', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'chosen', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'openprom', unit #-1 (no driver)
               Node 'client-services', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'options', unit #0
           Node 'aliases', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'memory', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'virtual-memory', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'pci', unit #0
               Node 'pci', unit #0
                   Node 'ebus', unit #0
                       Node 'auxio', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'power', unit #0
                       Node 'SUNW,pll', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'se', unit #0 (no driver)
                       Node 'su', unit #0
                       Node 'su', unit #1
                       Node 'ecpp', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'fdthree', unit #0
                       Node 'eeprom', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'flashprom', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'SUNW,CS4231', unit #0 (no driver)
                   Node 'network', unit #0
                   Node 'SUNW,m64B', unit #0
                   Node 'ide', unit #0
                       Node 'disk', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'cdrom', unit #-1 (no driver)
                       Node 'sd', unit #1
                       Node 'dad', unit #1
               Node 'pci', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi', unit #-1 (no driver)
           Node 'pseudo', unit #0
       [output truncated]

FILES

       /dev/kmem       default operating system image

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hostid(1), prtconf(1M), nlist(3ELF), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          4 Oct 2004                                                          sysdef(1M)
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