Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Solaris

what is this command mean?

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Operating Systems Solaris what is this command mean?
# 1  
Old 02-25-2008
what is this command mean?
Hi all

what is this command mean:

installboot/usr/platform/'uname -i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

please help me if any one know that.

thank you.
# 2  
Old 02-25-2008
"man installboot" will tell you.

Two other comments:

spaces are important in command lines, some of them are missing in the one you cite.

I'n neither an native English language speaker, but I believe you should ask "What does this command mean" instead of "What is ..." or "What are ..."
# 3  
Old 02-25-2008
Perhaps the OP means the part between the single (') quotes wich should be backticks (`).
In that case the part of the string `uname -i` is replaced by the shell with the output of the command uname -i (hardware platform).

Regards
# 4  
Old 02-25-2008
Bug For your Question
Hi,

installboot/usr/platform/'uname -i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

Here the above syntax what you have quoted is to install the corrupted bootblk, when your sparc machine fails to boot and still stands on Single user mode and from where you are not able to access dt logins.

so here is the description for the syntax

installboot - command to install the Primay Super bootblock or can call it as bootstrap program.

/usr/platform/'uname -i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk/ - in this loaction you can find the other secondary bootblk from where your sparc can boot.

usr - Library file
platform - keeps kernel independent modules to load
uname -i - Gives information of type of Installation you have done and Hardware platform for eg SUNW ,Sun Fire v490
lib - Is again a library file which keep binary files for the system
fs - Again a filesystem to which you are refereing to
ufs - is your Current Filesystem
bootblk - contains the bootblk program which you need to install using above command.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 - is the location to install bootstrap program.

Still if you have doubts,. you can mail me baraghan@vsnl.net

Regards
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Another one line command where I'd like to determine if Ubuntu or Red Hat when running command

Hello Forum, I'm making very good progress on my report thanks to the very helpful people on this forum. I've been able to successfully create my report for my Red Hat servers. But I do have a few ubuntu servers in the mix and I'd like to capture some data from them when an ssh connection is... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: greavette
8 Replies

2. AIX

I'm facing problem with rpm command, when running the command and appears this error:

exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /usr/opt/freeware/bin/rpm because of the following errors: 0509-022 Cannot load module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.1). 0509-150 Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a(shr4.o) could not be loaded. 0509-152 Member... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ohmkar
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Multiple command execution inside awk command during xml parsing

below is the output xml string from some other command and i will be parsing it using awk cat /tmp/alerts.xml <Alert id="10102" name="APP-DS-ds_ha-140018-componentFailure-S" alertDefinitionId="13982" resourceId="11427" ctime="1359453507621" fixed="false" reason="If Event/Log Level(ANY) and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

SH script, variable built command fails, but works at command line

I am working with a sh script on a solaris 9 zone (sol 10 host) that grabs information to build the configuration command line. the variables Build64, SSLopt, CONFIGopt, and CC are populated in the script. the script includes CC=`which gcc` CONFIGopt=' --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: oly_r
8 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

passing command output from one command to the next command in cshell

HI Guys, I hope you are well. I am trying to write a script that gets executed every time i open a shell (cshell). I have two questions about that 1) I need to enter these commands $ echo $DISPLAY $ setenv $DISPLAY output_of_echo_$display_command How can i write a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaaliakahn
2 Replies

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

unix command : how to insert text at the cursor location via command line?

Hi, Well my title isn't very clear I think. So to understand my goal: I have a script "test1" #!/bin/bash xvkbd -text blabla with xbindkeys, I bind F5 key in order it runs my test1 script So when I press F5, test1 runs. I'm under Emacs/Vi and I press F5 in order to have "blabla" be... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: xib.be
0 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need help! command working ok when executed in command line, but fails when run inside a script!

Hi everyone, when executing this command in unix: echo "WM7 Fatal Alerts:", $(cat query1.txt) > a.csvIt works fine, but running this command in a shell script gives an error saying that there's a syntax error. here is content of my script: tdbsrvr$ vi hc.sh "hc.sh" 22 lines, 509... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: 4dirk1
4 Replies

8. AIX

AIX:Command to get netaddress/subnet address command in IPv4/IP6

AIX:Command to get netaddress/subnet address command in IPv4/IP6 Can anybody help us with a command to retrieve netaddress/subnet address command in IPv4/IP6 on aix machine. net/subnet address is in the format 172.16.212.0(signifies all 255 machines in an IPv4 network) (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rookie8278
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

assign a command line argument and a unix command to awk variables

Hi , I have a piece of code ...wherein I need to assign the following ... 1) A command line argument to a variable e.g origCount=ARGV 2) A unix command to a variable e.g result=`wc -l testFile.txt` in my awk shell script When I do this : print "origCount" origCount --> I get the... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: sweta_doshi
0 Replies

10. SuSE

inconsistent ls command display at the command prompt & running as a cron job

Sir, I using the following commands in a file (part of a bigger script): #!/bin/bash cd /opt/oracle/bin ls -lt | tail -1 | awk '{print $6}' >> /tmp/ramb.out If I run this from the command prompt the result is: 2007-05-16 if I run it as a cron job then... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajranibl
5 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question