/var/adm/wtmp is - out of the box - continually written until it is cleared. If yours is empty (or nearly empty) then most probably something clears it at boot time. Have a look at the rc-scripts in /etc/rc* and in /etc/inittab and maybe you can find the offender.
It is not unusual to set up some mechanism which clears wtmp out at boot time, because it can grow quite big and clog the /var-filesystem.
Hi Guys,
For the past month, our sun solaris server has rebooted itself 3 times. The sysadmin is saying that is not a sun issue and does not want to carry out any further research with sun about that. The db logfile does not show anything about any db issues at that time. I opened an oracle TAR... (3 Replies)
Hi all
i am using sun solaris 2.8 un sunultra10 sparc server.It is our firewall server. with check point firewall running.
but the server suddenly halted several times with the same error as follows....and then there was no option but to reboot.
the error was
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+)
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Am new to AIX please help me. I have AIX7 server. When ever the system reboots my script need to run automatically. This will help me to start my application automatically after the server reboot.
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Hi,
I'm in process of creating oracle RAC using Solaris 10 in VirtualBox. I want to know how can I change the ownership of device e.g /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 and keep it persistent during rebbots.
When I enter
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ls -l still shows root:root.
Thanks
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The OS is Slackware 14.0. When, after 14.0 install I first ran alsamixer, I got an error message and it quit. After some googling, I created /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf with these lines:
alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel
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Hi Experts,
I have configured HP-UX Service Guard cluster and it dumps crash every time i reboot a cluster node. Can anyone please help me to prevent these unnecessary crash dumps at the time of rebooting SG cluster node?
Thanks in advance.
Vaishey (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
boot.config
BOOT.CONFIG(5) BSD File Formats Manual BOOT.CONFIG(5)NAME
boot.config -- Configuration file for the boot blocks
DESCRIPTION
The boot.config file contains options for the FreeBSD boot block code.
When the FreeBSD boot loader runs, it searches the ``a'' slice of the boot partition for a boot.config file (as a result, slices which are
missing an ``a'' partition require user intervention during the boot process). If the boot.config file is found, its contents are used as
the default configuration options for the boot block code and are echoed to the system console.
A valid format of this file is to put BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number, a partition, a kernel file name, and any other
valid boot(8) option on a single line, as it is done at the ``boot:'' prompt.
The options related to the boot image selection described below and all the other options available for boot.config are documented in detail
in the boot(8) manual page.
FILES
/boot.config parameters for the boot blocks (optional)
EXAMPLES
The command:
# echo "-P" > /boot.config
will activate the serial console of FreeBSD.
The command:
# echo "1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader" > /boot.config
will instruct the second stage of boot(8) on the first disk to boot with the third boot(8) stage from the second disk.
The command:
# echo "1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader -P" > /boot.config
will do both of the above.
SEE ALSO boot(8), loader(8)AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD May 13, 2007 BSD