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I downloaded the pre-compiled Python packages from sunfreeware.com, installed them on my Solaris 8 box. I am trying to do a simple import of Tkinter. Since I installed Tcl 8.4 as well as Tk 8.4, and set my environment variables, I should be in reasonable good shape. However, I get the following...

You may have already checked this, but are you sure this host uses eri0 rather than the other ethernet cards Sun provides? Just something to check on.

I would use cfengine for that: http://www.cfengine.org

I think we can all agree that SOMEONE must know the root password. If management wants that responsibility, they should know the consequences. They obviously do not, and someone with background on the subject should educate, or leave all the system administration to them. There are tools to...

If management doesn't trust you with the root password there must be some issues there that need to be addressed. In my 15 years of Unix Sys Admin work I have never encountered such management. It would be possible for them to change the password and not tell the admins, and then use RBAC to...

I downloaded Python to my Solaris 8 box, SPARC based server, and followed the directions. Configure fails; it can't find Modules/Setup.config.in. I touch the file, then it fails on another file. I touch that file, and 3 or 4 attempts later, configure completes, but it makes no Makefile. The...

The proper way to manage access is to use RBAC, role based access control. This will enable you to limit access to various individuals based upon their role. Look at the /etc/security/*attr files to get a feel for what sort of roles you can use. Without knowing specifically the reasons for...

I have used a) dd b) Veritas c) LiveUpgrade d) flarcreate Live Upgrade is a free Sun utility which creates a clone of your boot environment, and allows you to upgrade an Alternate Boot environment while your server is still in production. I use it for that purpose, but I also use it as a...

sort -n +0.4 data -r | line to reverse sort and pop off the most recent file name

sort -n +0.4 data if the file were named data.

It is important to remember your security password and to set the security password before setting the security mode. If you forget this password, you cannot use your system; you must call your vendor's customer support service to make your machine bootable again...