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Thanks!
That was driving me nuts.

How do you delete a directory named -filedir?

Thanks for the great explaination.

I did an unlink \~ and that seemed to do the trick without any harm. I have no idea how that got there. I was writing an perl script on that system during the...

I don't know how this got here, but in a directory on one of my servers I see a directory named ~ that points to root. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before. I'm affraid to delete it in case...

It was just a permissions issue. I did a chmod 755 / and it did the trick. I can't believe I never thought to check the permissions of / . I was checking the permissions of every file and directory I...

I use the latest version of Putty and everything works fine. I can connect and logon as root just fine. I just cannot logon as any other user. This server is an FTP so none of the users can connect...

I ssh into the server and login as root. If I issue a login, and login as another user, my ssh session closes. There are no NFS mount points configured on this server.

Ahhhh!!!!!!!!
All of my user accounts can no longer login. I suspected a corrupt passwd file, but everything looks OK and the passwd file works when I copy it to another system. All user accounts...

The error I get when I create a user that begins with a numeric value is something like this:
UX: useradd: 123abc name first character should be alphabetic

Is there somewhere where I can change...

I was wondering if it was possible to create user accounts that begin with a number.
ex. 37ffw7523

I'm running Solaris 8 and need these accounts for an ftp server. I am able to creat regular user...

I just setup my ftp server on Solaris 8. Everything works fine...except I do not want to allow certain users to be able to change directories outside of their /home directory. In other wors I don't...

I am having a problem getting my configuration to stick. After I installed my quad-card I did the following:

1. created hostname.qe0, hostname.qe1, hostname.qe2, hostname.qe3 files in my /etc...

I am running Solaris 2.6 on a Sparc 10. I just installed my Quad-card and I am able to assign IP addresses to each port and PING out. I have created the "hostname.qe0 - hostname.qe3" files and added...

Does anyone know how to install a second Ethernet adapter on a Sun Sparc 10?

Oh yeah...and the machine cam with an integrated ethernet port which is le0...obviously i tried le1 le2 and so on, but that isn't it either.

Hi there,
I just installed a Sparc 4-port Ethernet adapter on my sparc 10 and was wondering how on earth I find out what the names of the ports are. It looks like on startup that on SBus1 there is...

I just want to know if there is some sort of command I could use to launch the http daemon...instead of having to reboot the server to get it started.:rolleyes:

I am not by any means a UNIX guru if you can't already tell by the question I'm about to ask.
How do I launch Apache web server on my SOlaris 8 server without rebooting it?

Any help would be much...

The nnswitch file needed the DNS entry and I can now use DNS.


Thanks for all your help!

I just setup Solaris 2.6 on my Sparc 10 and I cannot figure out how to configure my DNS settings. I am using @home as my ISP and they assigned me two DNS servers to use and a domain. I created a...

my diagram didn't exactly turnout the way it should have

Internet--->Firewall---->SUN PC

Here is what my network looks like:

Internet
|
Firewall-1
| |
--------- -------
DMZ -| | | |- Internal Network...

I am using my firewall to NAT one IP address for three computers on one network. Sort of like a proxy server. My Solaris box is one of these computers. So are you suggesting that I configure my...

my resolv.conf look's like this:

nameserver 10.10.10.1

my host file looks like this:

10.10.10.1 nameserver

This computer is not part of a domain.

I created the resolv.conf file in the /etc/ directory and added the line:
nameserver x.x.x.x

but I still cannot get any name resolution. I can access public websites via IP address, but not...