Installing Oracle Recommended OS Patchset(10_Recommended) for Solaris 10

The Recommended OS Patchset Solaris 10 provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and Sun Alert issues, and selected issues identified by Oracle Proactive Services and the Oracle Technical Support Center, for the Solaris 10 Operating System for sparc. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most important and highly … Read more

Is it safe to set net.ifnames=0 in RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9?

Issue: Is it safe to disable Consistent Device Naming by setting net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line in RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9? Why can I no longer use the 70-persistent-net.rules file to force persistent ethX names like I could in earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Resolution: No. Red Hat strongly recommend that the … Read more

HP Smart Storage Admin CLI (ssacli) installation on Linux

Why use HP Smart Storage Admin CLI? You can use ssacli (smart storage administrator command line interface) tool to manage any of supported HP Smart Array Controllers in your host without need to reboot your server to access Smart Storage Administrator in BIOS. That means no host downtime when managing your storage. CLI is not as convenient as GUI … Read more

Splunk Enterprise 9.x license activation for test cases on Linux

Splunk Enterprise is a data platform designed to help businesses manage big data and analyze machine data. It can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud via the Splunk Cloud Platform and enables you to search, analyze and visualize your data to quickly act on insights from across your technology landscape. An Enterprise Splunk License … Read more

Install Splunk Enterprise 9.0 on RHEL/CentOS 8

Splunk Enterprise is a data platform designed to help businesses manage big data and analyze machine data. It can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud via the Splunk Cloud Platform and enables you to search, analyze and visualize your data to quickly act on insights from across your technology landscape. Installing/Starting Splunk Enterprise 9.0.4 … Read more

vsftpd terminated after buffer overflow detected in Linux

Issue : When run the “ftp open” command, vsftpd terminated after buffer overflow detected printed. [root@unixonline ~]# ftp localhost Connected to localhost.localdomain. *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/sbin/vsftpd terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x2f)[0x2b43730d0c5f] KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Or “lftp” command “ls” is returned “Delaying before reconnect”. [root@unixonline ~]# lftp test@192.168.10.10:~> ls `ls’ at … Read more

How to Recover Removed File in Linux

In this scenario, we are going to recover removed file in Linux OS.for example: /data/mongodb/audit/sh0-prm-audit.log is removed. Find the deleted file by lsof command: [root@unixonline]# lsof | grep -i delete init 1 root 9r REG 253,7 10406312 528590 /var/lib/sss/mc/initgroups (deleted) hald 2706 haldaemon 19r REG 253,7 10406312 528593 /var/lib/sss/mc/initgroups (deleted) ntpd 2874 ntp 4r REG … Read more

How to Move IP Configuration From One Network Device to Another Device in Solaris

Use the following procedure if you need to preserve the IP configuration that is associated with one network device and then move that configuration to another network device. You might perform this procedure as a prelude to removing a network card from the system or when changing a network cable connection. For example purposes only, … Read more

Sun Oracle System Handbook

The Sun Oracle System Handbook is designed to be an online web-based resource for Oracle customers, employees, partners and provides more detailed information from a system perspective, including system photographs, parts lists, and support documentation. The Sun System Handbook has replaced the online version of the FE(Field Engineer) Handbook, both on InfoServer and CDs. The … Read more

How to Copy Directory Structure Without Files in Unix and Linux

In some scenarios, you might want to mimic a certain directory structure that already exists maybe for your personal projects or for a files storage system just because that directory structure makes perfect sense and might require a lot of time to completely recreate it from scratch. Following is the cool way of copying a … Read more