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Trying to answer a question about whether tar table-of-contents is a good tool for verifying tape data.

Maybe I should have said anything excluding TCP/IP. I thought about serial for a few seconds, but I don't want to transfer > 1GB over 38400 baud. I just thought there may be something out there...

Not very condusive to automation and scripting. Anything else?

Does anyone know of any way to share storage between 2 machines without networking?

I have a server that is constantly connected to a VPN that cuts off network access to every non-VPN network. ...

I have a multipath system with 2 physicals, a virtual and a failsafe. All network connectivity is working fine to and from all of the interfaces and the virtual. The one thing that is not working...

Out of the 100s of screensavers in xscreensaver, what is your favorite?

I think mine is definitely juggle. I can sit and watch that juggler forever. I haven't looked into the code, but it must...

/usr/sbin/devfsadm

This will recreate the links in /dev/.

Is there a way to reset the netstat counters in solaris 8? Specifically, the error counters?

How do you test the physical network connection of an interface in solaris. I know that if you have an active connection and the cable gets yanked, you can look in the messages file to check for...

I also have another machine that is able to ping its own interface. Both were jumpstarted the same way. Do you know if the ping packets reach layer 2? I'm assuming not, because snoop doesn't see...

I can't seem to find any options for minutes on find. If you're using perl, maybe you can do an 'ls -Rl' and parse the output, grabbing the files that show a mod time older than five minutes. For...

We have loads of Sparc solaris 8 boxes. Each one has 2 physical interfaces and 2 virtuals set up for multipathing (See ifconfig below). Problem is that I cannot ping the qfe0 interface IP from the...

ANSI seems to do the same thing. tail is busted, vi doesn't display text and shell interaction is lost.

from the command line, run: who -r

When I log in from my linux workstation (CentOS4) to a solaris 8 server using SSH or telnet, the terminal settings don't seem to work well. When I tail or vi a file, I get a blank screen or no...

Just a note, when using system in perl, it returns the exit code multiplied by 256. So, if a command returns 1, system("command") will return 256. So, to get the real return value, divide by 256.

When converting from bps to Mbps, do you use base2 (N * 2^20) or base10 (N * 1000000)?

Thanks