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I am running MySQL on a Solaris x86 host. I am currently backing up using mqsqldump and he database is about 1GB in size. It takes about 10 mins to backup and a whopping 6.5 hours to restore. The database will continue to grow and the time it takes to restore is not acceptable. I also need to...

I have just discovered the -l option to Perl. While it is great in saving me typing all those \n's, what if I do no want to put a line return to a print statement when I am using this? I searched and can't seem to find a way to suppress the line return when using -l. Is there a way of doing...

Does anyone know what the minimum recommended Solaris 10 x86 release is for using SVM to mirror the root disk? I believe there were some issues on the earlier releases.

Networker version: 7.4.2 Server OS: Solaris 10 Client OS: Solaris 8 Our network team wanted to get rid of an old subnet what was on our external network and move it to the internal network. We have a client with a host name of "system1" and the fully qualified name was "system1.widget.org"...

I have a Leopard install where I do seem to be able to login at the OS level. I cannot ssh to the box, I cannot sudo to any user (all users have admin rights) and I cannot su to a user. No error, just rejects the password of any user I try. I can login with all users using the password in the...

Does anyone have a working setup that will allow booting from an SVM mirror disk in Solaris 10 8/07 x86? I am using a SunFire x4200 M2, but would also like to do this on an x4100. I have tried to research this but have not found a working procedure.

I am trying to create a flash archive on a bootable DVD for disaster recovery purposes. I have referenced several docs including the Sun Flash Archive guide and Sun Blueprints for "Jumstart Technology" and "Building a Bootable DVD to Deploy a Solaris Flash Archive". My initial problem was that...

I am using Solaris 8 with openssh 3.9p1 and openssl 0.9.7d. I had a user that has the shell of /bin/false to prevent the user loging into the server. This worked OK with ftp; he was able to get in and transfer files using ftp, but not telnet or ssh to the box. There is now a requirement to stop...

I have a Solaris 8 host that has corrupted root disk files and I want to be able to recover the entire root disk from backup to how it was prior to the corruption. Legato support are telling me that I have to re-install the OS to the same patch level and then resore omiting certain system...

I have Veritas VM 4.1 running on Solaris. I have encapsulated the system boot disk and want to create an exact mirror copy. My disk layout is 0 / 1 swap 2 <entire disk> 3 <vxvm private> 4 <vxvm public> 5 /var 6 /other 7 <unused> I am using the technique described in Sun Blueprints: Boot Disk...

I am trying to search the messages file for all the occurances that happen at a particular date and time. Below is the 4 lines from the messages file that I am interested in (2 occurances of the problem)...

I have two identical V490s running Solaris 10. I just installed Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Enterprise HA V4.1 on both. After the install one rebooted fine the other hangs and will not even boot into single user mode. I can boot off the cdrom. The is what I get...

I was changing the input-device eeprom setting and incorrectly set a non existant variable "inputdevice". Now I have a setting called "inputdevice" when I qurey eeprom. I tried setting it to blank but it is still there. Does anynone know how to remove this variable completely from the eeprom...

Hi, is there a way to permanently remove a hardware device from the system hardware database so that it will not be picked up upon reboot or with cfgmgr? I have a server with mutiple ethernet adapters (5) and we are only using one of them. One of the other 4 is giving perm hardware errors and...

After the recent story in the NY Times where Iron Mountain lost the backup media for Time Warner in transit my manager has become concerned that this could happen to us (we use Iron Mountain as well). So now he wants to have encrypted backups. I have been looking into this, but the solutions I...

I would like to be able to print a PDF document from the command line and not from inside a viewer, so that I can print from a scheduled script. Does any one know how this can be done? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using printf to consolidate overnight process reports into a single report which is then emailed from my Unix (AIX) host to reportees in MS Outlook mail. When I view the text report file on the Unix side the formating is fine. When it arrives as the body of an email in Outlook the column...

Does anyone know if there is a way to run a cron job without the users .profile being read? The users .profile has a an interactive menu and when a job is run through cron in never completes because it is waiting for user input. Thanks

I am running Fedora FC2 and am having problems getting vsftp working. After making changes changes to the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf they did not appear to be taking affect. Then I noticed after stopping vsftpd I could still sftp into the box. It seems that when I sftp it is using sftp-server and...

On most Unix flavours the sar -r command will give you real memory usage, but this does not appear to be the case on AIX. I checked the man page and I don't see another option to get real memory stats. I know you can use vmstat to get memory stats, but unlike sar you can only get current stats...