What does pkgadd command do?

- It installs a signed or unsigned software package.

- Removes any existing packages installed with the same name as of that we are adding.

Add package to the system using pkgadd.

Syntax:

pkgadd –a admin_file –d device-name pkgid

Verify if the package is installed successfully

#pkgchk –v pkgid

Example:

pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/solaris10/product SUNwaudio

The above example is to install the package from cdrom

Explain how to kill a process.

1.Become a superuser or root user to terminate the process of the another user.

2.Obtain the PID of the process to be terminated.

Syntax:

$ps –fu

Example:

$ps –fu abc abc 325 322 3 jan 12 ? 11:04 /usr/openwin/bin/sun

The process ID is displayed in the first column of the output.

Terminate the process using kill command.

$ kill pid Default signal number is -15 {SIGKILL} -9 {SIGTERM

Verifying if the process is terminated or not.

$pgrep <pid>