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I inherit a Solaris7 system with /home mounted via a share from the NFS server. When I look at mnttab, there are two entries mounted under /home. Let's say they are server:/home/a and...

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I wonder how to change the date and timezone in OpenBoot prompt. Appreciate any idea.

Thanks in advance

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I have a sparc5 with ROM Rev 2.15. Is it possible to upgrade to a higher rev?

Thanks in advance.

I don't have Shell access. Can I still tar the remote files?

Thx for your reply.

I am ftp'g a directory. There are "symbolic link" files in there that point to files under the same directory tree. If I can't just download the LINK only, I will ftp some...

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I am trying to ftp and get some symbolic link file as it is instead of getting whatever it is pointing at. Is it do-able?

Thx in advance.

Would you print out your resolv.conf? I suspect that there is a problem there.

Thanks rwb1959.

It works. I am reading the chapter about Shell Programming of "Learning the Korn Shell" from O'Reilly. I am trying out e.gs. However, they don't have the two lines:

xyz...

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I am new to Shell Programming. I had a simple function here:

function xyz {
print "test"
}

I save the file as "abc" and give X to all. After I type abc from the...

I found it.

I find the following steps working for me to connect to a network printer and I'd like to share it with all of you.

steps:
============
1. lpsystem -t bsd printer-server-name . ...

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I can add a network printer with ADMINTOOL. However, I have a problem to add a network printer using lpadmin on my Sparc Solaris 8 box.

Here's the detail:
===============
lpadmin...

I guess my question is: from where I can find out the smallest chunk of disks that needs to be assigned to a file?

Also, let's say it's 1k, then, is there anyway I could change it (probably...

I have a question about the use of du. I understand that du reports the number of 512-byte blocks of disk usage used in the directory and below.

However, with only 3 small files (file a is 64...

Is there a fix for this?

With ksh, I think you should use 'r' instead of '!'.

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I have a newbie question. I don't seem to find a program that simulate ADD/REMOVE program on WINxx. Is there any rule or typical way of how application is removed?
Thanks in advance.

Yes, root can't telnet into the SunOS 5.8 box until the line
CONSOLE=/dev/console is commented out.
Thanks for all the input.

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When I telnet my W2k machine to my Solaris8 machine, after typing my login name and password prompt, I get the following msg immediately.
====
Not on System Console.
Connection to host...

Thank you. That helps a lot.

df -k results below:

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Filesystem kbytes used avail cap. Mtd. on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1252895 878583 311668 74% /
/proc ...

Thanks for the reply. My question is more about why that the df -k will produce 2 lines about swap, instead of 1.

Thank you for the reply. I am running Solaris8. I did try to run an audio player under the application manager | Desktop control but it does not play it as I expect.

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With Solaris 8. after I enter df -k, I see 2 lines of SWAP; one is mounted on /var/run while the other is on /tmp.
I remembered that I set up only 1 swap during the installation. Then, a...

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How do I set up my cdrom to play some regular audio cd (not cd-r or cd-rw). I know that my cdrom has been mounted as it does pop up the file manager if I put in, e.g., the office52 cd. ...

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My newbie question is: where is the "env" file?

I can define some settings via .profile (with Korn Shell). However, where is the env file that specifies the default PATH, LANG,...