Archive for January, 2009

UNIX: Mounts and Umounts in Solaris

This item was filled under [ Interview Help Solaris, Solaris, Unix Reference ]

Mounts and Unmounts
In Solaris mounting process is used to attach individual file system to their mount points. These actions makes the file system accessible and available to the system and user.
Unmounting process detaches file system from mount point. This action makes file system unavailable  and unaccessible for users and system.

Database Files:
/etc/vfstab : Whenever system [...]

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Solaris: Group administration

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The group File
Multiple users can be organized into a group for ease of administration. Entries in the group file contain information about groups.
Database File:
1) “/etc/group” : It contains group information w.r.t Group name,GID,Group Password & Group members.
Syntax of /etc/group file
group name:group password:gid:group-member
Managing [...]

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Unix: Linking Files & Directories

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Linking Files & Directories in Unix :

Whenever we create any file, one unique number gets assigned to that file. This number is called as inode number. It contains all file attributes like name, type, size, permissions, ownership & group membership, timestamp of access etc. Linking files or directories means pointing to the same physical data [...]

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Windows: Shutdown system using commands

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Shutdown your windows system using command line
It is very easy to shudown our system using GUI, let’s try below command line options too,
1) shutdown -s : To Shutdown the system after 30 seconds.

Note: 30 seconds is the default time, it can be changed by given below commands.
2) shutdown -r : To [...]

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