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Operating Systems Solaris Java and Javac problems Post 302714839 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 13th of October 2012 12:07:17 AM

10-13-2012

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Windows is derived from UNIX, and has an interface that will not let you see most of what is underneath, without expensive tools or lots of knowledge. Solaris does not have that. Plus it looks like you may have done some kind of non-standard install of java.

Consider this carefully:

Put Solaris on hold for a few months.

Use Windows to run interference for you until you are a lot more comfortable with base UNIX.

Here is what I would do. Download and Install cygwin. You install it as an add on to Windows. I have a copy of UNIX as cygwin on my work desktop computer, it is useful.

Cygwin

Everytime you want a piece of software for cygwin, the download lets the installer put it up for you. Just like Windows. And it is all free. Not like Windows. This way it is harder to shoot yourself in the foot.

After you play with cygwin for a while, consider installing a dual boot of Ubuntu on the same windows box. Ubuntu (a kind of Linux) is meant for transitioning from Windows to UNIX. Solaris is very much not meant for that. The motivation for Ubuntu was to make it really simple for Windows users to avail themselves of the huge opensource software selection. If you are really computer conversant, go straight to Ubuntu if you want.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

I manage 4 $100K Solaris M4000 boxes, each with about a dozen virtual computers (zones) in them which is 48 Solaris computers. I've been doing UNIX since the late 1970's and still encounter stuff I do not know. Cygwin/Ubuntu is made to isolate the user from all that.

So change course for a while. If you don't like my idea you will have to do a lot of learning, reading, and fiddling before your frustration level with Solaris goes away.

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airport2-config

AIRPORT2-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						AIRPORT2-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       airport2-config - Configurator for the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station ("Snow")

SYNOPSIS

       airport2-config

DESCRIPTION

       airport2-config allows you to manage your AirPort base station, just like the AirPort software on Mac OS X.

OPTIONS

       airport2-config	accepts  no  command-line  options. airport2-config is a wrapper script around the Airport2BaseStationConfigurator.jar jar
       file located in /usr/share/java/airport-utils.

       You can set the JAVACMD environment variable to use a specific JVM instead of the one chosen by the wrapper script. Set the DEBUG  environ-
       ment variable to 1 to get the debug output from the wrapper script.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       DEBUG  Set this variable to 1 to get the debug output from the wrapper script.

       JAVACMD
	      The  full  path  to  the	Java  Virtual  Machine	to  use.  By  default,	the  wrapper  uses JAVACMD; if it is not set, it looks for
	      JAVA_BINDIR/java, then for JAVA_HOME/bin/java before looking for a java executable in the PATH. In the latter case, the JVM used can
	      be configured using the Debian alternatives system (see update-alternatives(8)).

       JAVA_HOME
	      The full path where your JDK/JRE is installed.

       JAVA_BINDIR
	      The full path to the directory where the java executable is located.

       JAVA_ARGS
	      Extra command-line arguments to be passed to the Java Virtual Machine.

AUTHOR

       airport2-config was written by Jon Sevy <jsevy@cs.drexel.edu>.

       This manual page was written by Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   May 20, 2006 						AIRPORT2-CONFIG(1)