1.9) Where has the XXX command gone now?

There are too many of these changes to include in this FAQ, but here are some key ones:

a. locations are often different

whoami

/usr/ucb/whoami

make

/usr/ccs/bin/make

hostid

/usr/ucb/hostid

hostname

/usr/ucb/hostname (or use uname -n)

Note that the last two commands are back in /usr/bin in Solaris 2.5.

b. some old commands don't exist or have replacements

pstat -s

swap -s (how much swap space?)

dkinfo

/usr/sbin/prtvtoc raw_dev_name

trace

truss

mount -a

mountall

exportfs

share

bar

cpio -H bar (read only)

This guide has undergone some changes from 2.0 -> 2.1 and beyond. Several manuals have ended up being combined into this single manual. This manual discusses administrative transition and developer transition issues.

The command "whatnow" (for Solaris 2.x) is included in the "Admigration Toolkit" package (see below). The Admigration toolkit can be obtained from:

Admigration toolkit

Sample output:

	% whatnow hostname
	hostname                                        4.x command only
	hostname        /usr/ucb/hostname               part of SCP package
	hostname        /usr/bin/uname -n               alternate command

The whatnow command is limited in that it may point to one command which may only implement a subset of the old command (e.g., pstat points to sar, while pstat -s is identical to swap -s)

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