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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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sys-unconfig — Undo a System's Configuration

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/sys-unconfig

Description

Use the sys-unconfig command to restore a system configuration to an "as manufactured" state in preparation for configuring it again. A system's configuration consists of host name, Network Information Service (NIS) domain name, time zone, IP address, IP subnet mask, and root password. This operation is the inverse of those performed by the sysidnet(1M), sysidnis(1M), and sysidsys(1M) programs run at boot. See sysidtool(1M).

sys-unconfig performs the following tasks.

  • Saves current /etc/inet/hosts file information in /etc/inet/hosts.saved.

  • If the current /etc/vfstab file contains NFS mount entries, saves the /etc/vfstab file to /etc/vfstab.orig.

  • Restores the ...

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