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Killing process by name except root
How to kill apache process which are not owned by root.
Kill -9 `ps -eaf | grep apache | grep -v root | awk ‘{print $2}’`
Convert Solaris block to bytes
You always deal with blocks on solaris and if you want to convert to bytes. Here is the size for a block.
512 bytes = 1 block
solaris boot problem with metadb and quick fix – boot with one metadb
If your sun solaris using SVM and if there is a boot problem due to state database, you can do a quick fix. The system will panic if fewer than half of the state database replicas available. ...
How to start and stop services/daemons in Unix/Lnux System
You may need to restart services after you changed the configuration files. You can use the following methods to restart services.
RedHat, CentOS and Fedora Core Linux
/sbin/service ...
Sun Solaris multipath explanation to find devices
When you have multi paths for devices, you will see that number of devices in format command. For an example, if you have 4 paths for a single lun, you will see for devices in format ...
Solaris volume manager(SVM) Command-Line Reference
Solaris Volume Manager Commands:
growfs
Expands a UFS file system in a nondestructive fashion.
metaclear
Deletes active volumes and hot spare pools.
metadb
Creates and deletes state ...
Solaris: Recovering From Boot Problems
Because Solaris Volume Manager enables you to mirror the root (/), swap, and /usr directories, special problems can arise when you boot the system. These problems can arise either through ...
How to install a ZFS boot block?
This article describes how to install the ZFS boot block on a system running a ZFS root filesystem. This is normally required when a system fails to boot from a disk containing a root ...
How to Recover From the Boot Error: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
In this article we are only taking care of UFS file system.
Symptoms
This document can help you troubleshoot boot processes that fail with:
The file just loaded does not appear ...