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change passwd – permission denied (NIS)

Change passwd – permission denied (NIS) I setup a new NIS server and put the NIS source files in /var/yp/src/ The command line “passwd” gave me a permission denied when changing an NIS user’s password. A restart of yp fixed the problem for me.. Eventually I restarted NIS with: [bash] /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart [/bash]
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Checking Memory on UNIX

Checking Memory on UNIX [bash]ps -A –sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 11[/bash] [bash]ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10[/bash] [bash]free[/bash] [bash]free -m[/bash] [bash]ps aux | awk ‚Äò{sum +=$4}; END {print sum}‚Äô[/bash]
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Search String in Directory – UNIX

Search String in Directory – UNIX How to search for a string in a selection of files (-exec grep …). [bash] find . -exec grep “searchstring” ‘{}’ \; -print [/bash] [bash] find . -exec grep “searchstring” ‘{}’ \; -ls [/bash] This command will search in the current directory and all sub directories. All files that […]
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Copying a filesystem with Veritas

Copying a filesystem with Veritas This procedure is to create an exact copy of a Veritas filesystem. You will need enough spare disks in your volume group, and ideally anything using the filesystem should be killed. create a mirror # vxassist -g tier3dg mirror tier3fs # vxprint tier3fs Disk group: tier3dg TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE […]
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VxVM – Volume Management

Volume Management Add a volume (Normal UFS mounted filesystem) # # vxassist -g datadg maxsize # # iostat -En > /tmp/iostat_en_<date> # # devfsadm # # iostat -En > /tmp/iostat_en_<date>.NEW # # luxadm probe # If no disk appears add disk manually ## # vxdmpadm listctlr all ## # cfgadm -c configure c2 ## # […]
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