How to Get IP Conflict Message in Solaris 10

The hardware clock seems to be broken or not responding to updates. This could be an OS bug or hardware failure.

Add the following lines in /etc/system:

set tod_broken=1
set dosynctodr=0

The tod_broken parameter will prevent the operating system from attempting to update the hardware clock. The dosynctodr parameter, when set to 0 will stop the operating system from syncing its time from the hardware clock.

These can also be set without rebooting using the following commands:

# echo 'tod_broken/W 1' | mdb -kw
# echo 'dosynctodr/W 0' | mdb -kw

I'd also recommend configuring ntpd to keep your time in sync.

You will most likely find that you have rm aliased to rm -i. If you had answered y to the question you would then have been asked to authorise the deletion of each file in each directory.

$ alias rm
alias rm='rm -i'

$ rm -r tmp1
rm: examine files in directory tmp1 (yes/no) y
rm: remove tmp1/1 (yes/no) y
rm: remove tmp1/2 (yes/no) y
rm: remove tmp1: (yes/no) y

You can temporarily remove the alias with the unalias command. If you want to permanently remove it you will have to find where in your shell initialisation files it is defined and remove it. Had you used the full path /usr/bin/rm it would have worked the same as /usr/xpg4/bin/rm