IT Systems Engineering
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Replacing a failed boot disk in Solaris
Here is how to replace a failed boot disk having a software mirror on it (on a Solaris box): Replacing a failed boot disk
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Performing solaris maintenance when booted from cdrom
I was stuck with a dead HDD0 on a Sun T2000 box. The HDD1 was mirrored with HDD0 but someone did not put a boot block on it. Hence the system would not boot from HDD1. I tried putting a boot block on HDD1 but it threw the system into a panic mode while trying to boot up from HDD1 I found this useful webpage which describes how to boot from a Solaris OS CD ROM disk and perform necessary work Performing maintenance when booted from cdrom
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vi says it does not know what kind of terminal…
Ok so I got this error when I ran vi on a Solaris box while booted off a CD ROM I don’t know what kind of terminal you are on – all I have is ‘unknown’. Solution: run these two commands: TERM=vt100export TERM Note: Running this command did NOT work: export TERM=vt100
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Recover Forgotten Weblogic Passwords
Nice utility. However it needs Chrome/FF to work. Recover Forgotten Weblogic Admin Password
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Weblogic Server "invalid pad byte" error
Here is how to encrypt a password/username for weblogic’s boot.properties or config.xml file java -cp /opt/app/bea/weblogic81/server/lib/weblogic.jar -Dweblogic.RootDirectory=/opt/app/bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain3 weblogic.security.Encrypt test_password I got it from: Anything simple: Oracle BEA Weblogic Server 10 “invalid pad byte” error