[SunHELP] Killing default services, fixing tar, and installin g pkg's ...

[Ben Ricker]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:38, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> Easiest way to shutdown services is the classic way, comment the unneeded
> services from /etc/inetd.conf then HUP the inetd daemon.
> 
> I've been using Sun's tar since v2.5 and I've never had a problem with it.
> A long time ago it had a 2G limit but that's no longer a problem.

I think what he may run into is problems with some Gnu tarred files; I
run into that periodically with open source software 
 
> -M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe at joestump.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:23 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Killing default services, fixing tar, and installing
> pkg's ...
 
> 2.) I've heard that Sun's tar is no good - where do I go to get a different
> one?

You can get a lot of good Gnu software from http://www.sunfreeware.com.
Try a mirror.
 
> 3.) I need to install nmap and wget - where do I get it and how do you
> install
> them? Are they on the cdrom? Dare I ask how to mount the cdrom?

I do not think Nmap is on there. You can get wget from the site above,
as well as the gcc compiler, which you can then use to compile Nmpa
with. Do a man on 'pkgadd' to see how to add packages to Solaris.
 
Ben Ricker
Wellinx.com