1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I need a few information/explanation about system messages, syslog.conf file and syslogd daemon. My problem is the following: I would like to log all system messages related to hardware problems into a particular file. For that, i have to add an entry in the syslog.conf file. I know... (1 Reply)

2. Solaris

Hi, Can anyone let me explain the difference between tar , uncompress,gzip and gunzip commands. both gzip and gunzip are same i think correct me if am wrong. (1 Reply)

3. Solaris

Hi, I have a doubt reg crontab entries. If the user name is there in /etc/cron.d/cron.allow and also in cron.deny file will he able to execute. if the user is not in both the file means wt will do? (2 Replies)

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Hi, Can anyone explain me what is RSS time in the prstat output. In the below example 93M is total process size(correct me if am wrong ) what abt 58M? 1693 root 93M 58M cpu1 0 10 4:11:02 0.8% java/35 (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi When setting minfree to a certain percentage using the tunefs command, does this actually prevent users from accesing the partition when the limit is reached or not?.. It is a separate file system or not More clarification regarding minfree will be useful for me . (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi , I have a doubt reg SCP . For eg.. FileA is in host1 .Is it possible to receive fileA by logging to host2 using SCP.. Please let me know what is the major difference between scp and sftp.. We can use both for file transfer(correct me if am wrong) (4 Replies)

7. Solaris

Can anyone explains me what is the basic functionality of Netprobe service. How to find the netprobe status whether it is running or stopped.. Only start|stop|restart option is there. (5 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi, Am trying to send mail from solaris host to my mailbox, but while executing mailx command am getting the follow error.Is this syntax corect? #mailx -s "subject" <myid> The flags you gave are used only when sending mail. (1 Reply)

9. Solaris

Hi , Am new to solaris can anyone tell me what is the use of setting the eeprom variable to true or false ... (5 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hi, Please let me know what is hardware watchdog enabled which we get when the solaris host is booting .As per my knowledge its the one states that the POST is enabled. correct me if am wrong. (1 Reply)