Solaris System Administration Commands

Solaris System Administration Commands

Some commands to allow you to manage your environment

Starting, Stopping and Rebooting

Boot solaris from ok prompt boot
Boot Solaris and reconfigure from ok prompt boot –r
Boot Solaris from CD / Install Solaris boot cdrom
Boot Solaris from network boot net
Install Solaris from network boot net - install
Shutdown machine to OK prompt init 0
Shutdown and power off machine init 5
How to interrupt bootup STOP key and A key together or send from terminal emulator BREAKsignal
Boot solaris in single user & system maintenance mode init s or S
Shutdown with grace time shutdown -y -g5 -i6
Rebooting to Default Runlevel init 6
If system has 2 Solaris OS say 8/9 to boot in OS us eeprom

Installing and Managing software

Display list of all installed packages pkginfo
Display patches installed showrev –p
Display patches installed patchadd –p
Install a package in file fcaw.pkg pkgadd –d fcaw.pkg
Check the install of package JNIfcaw pkgchk JNIfcaw
Display version / info etc of package abc pkginfo –l abc
Remove a package JNIfcaw pkgrm JNIfcaw
Find what package a file called x is in grep x /var/sadm/install/contents

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User Management

Display All users > logins -x. Perticular user information > logins -x | grep user name. how do change passwd for user > passwd user name. how do change shell & home directory > using " usermod" command. set non expiry passwd for user > give NP in /etc/shadow file.