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Thanks maultier It is exactly what you've describe.

Hi I recently inherited a Clariion 5300 disk enclosure. I'm looking for manuals and other stuff which is helpful for setup/support. Unfortunately, I think this 5300 is an old name and I don't know what is the new equivalent model. Does anyone knows what is the equivalent model for 5300 and is...

I will test it out and let u know the outcome. Thanks a million.

Hi all expert Appreciate your help. I have a problem where eventhough the bdump directory have 755 permission, I can't issue a find command in the directory. (see below) This happen to all directory under /apps/oracle [/apps/oracle/bdump]find . -name "*.Z" pwd: The file access permissions do...

Thanks a lot. It worked like a dream!

Hi all I have a 7044-170. I used to be able to reach my SMS-menu in the graphical display console. Lately I can't reach SMS. When I bootup, the console will just display a blank screen (black color) as oppose to the white background with the icon display sequence. Not sure what actually...

Ken my $SHELL is /sbin/sh Julian Thanks for your comment. Can I say that there's no TMOUT equivalent for Solaris Bourne shell? (I'm using Solaris 8) Thanks all.

Hi all I'm using Solaris and I need to set the TIMEOUT variable in bourne shell (/sbin/sh). I've read somewhere and it's supposed to be TIMEOUT=5;export TIMEOUT but it doesn't work. TMOUT on ksh works perfectly. Does anyone know how to set timeout in bourne shell? Thanks.

thanks pal for the info.

hello jad I was not allow to due to some issue with user. What about the location of the configuration files, are they still the same? Thanks.

Hi all I'm about to inherit some Solaris 2.4 systems (very old one) and I cannot upgrade them. I have only use Solaris 2.6 & 2.7 before. Does anyone knows what are the major differences between these 3 versions? (e.g. commands not supported, configurations change) Is there any internet link...

another way is "tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 -I list"

Hi I've used Solaris 6,7 & 8 and I use ufsdump and ufsrestore for the normal ufs type filesystem. When a disk failure occur, u have to boot from the CD and restore filesystem by filesystem. Its pretty tedious but it works. I'm not aware of any tools similar to Ignite-UX for Solaris. Maybe...

Hi There are various way, but I guess the easiest is: 1) use SAM 2) type "set_parms date_time" Follow the instruction prompted on screen.

Hi To check how many physical disk your system see, do a "lspv" To check each hard disk size, do a "lspv hdisk?" where ? = 0,1,2... To check memory, do a "lsattr -E -l mem?" where ?=0 (usually) Finally, u need to check out some AIX related web sites on its...