How can I find out how old my Solaris machine is? It was suggested to look at the files in /etc/ and simply pick the oldest date. But wouldn't some dates represent the OS version, and may not necessarily be as new as the box itself? Or is this a good enough measure? Any better techniques? Is...
# I want to be able to extract all the oracleprod processes which are 3 days old and kill them. Are there other date functions or methods can I use? I can make a list of processes but how do I compare the date to kill those processes more than 3 days old. This problem is occurring even though I...
Is anyone else confused and possibly concerned with the direction that Sun Microsystems is heading? What I'm refering to is the recent support of Linux, and now more recently the agreement with Microsoft. How can the company support both, and the Solaris OS (especially Solaris x86 & Linux) and...
My Sun Sparc U450 machine running Sybase ASE12.5 has become extremely slow after addition of a new disk, installing mutt and some restructuring of applications over the new disk. The output of sar shows nothing other than increased disk r/w activites. Can somebody provide some input on tools or...


