Can't you just install GNU versions of the utilities?
http://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/indexsparc7.html
They have pretty much everything there that you could possibly need
as far as CLI utils go. I'd hit up fileutils-4.1 and tar-1.16 for
starters.
I believe they all install in /usr/local (or you can tell pkgadd
where to install the packages) then you just need to bump /usr/local/
bin to the front of your path and you'll be using the GNU tools.
Hope that helps. :)
- Chris
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:25 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I
need to
get around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around
on it.
Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line
utilities, it'd
sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
I'm curious: for the task of ensuring that no useful data remains on
the system, what utilities is Solaris 7 lacking?
It's not that it's lacking utilities, but it's frustrating to
browse around
the filesystem, trying to tarball up files, parse for interesting
information
here and there, etc without the GNU versions of common utilities.
It's not
that it can't be done, but Solaris 7 just 'feels' antiquated these
days and
I'd much prefer to just be able to boot it up in a modern
environment to do
the browsing. That's the place where I know command line options
and in many
cases, options I take for granted aren't even in the Solaris 7
binaries for
things like ps, ls, tar, etc...
-N
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