Solaris articles - church1e's blog

A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Making pfexec work like sudo under Solaris

Updated 1 Jun 2012 Read time 1 min 45 sec(s) (2412 visits).

I thought I'd try out the new role based action control (RBAC) on the Solaris systems as an alternative to sudo.

How to Update a file on all zones at the same time

Updated 12 May 2012 Read time 24 sec(s) (2832 visits).

A brief article and how to quickly copy an updated configuration to all child zones.

Setting up Solaris 10 Accounting subsystem

Updated 17 Apr 2012 Read time 5 min(s) 45 sec(s) (1297 visits).

To configure the Solaris Auditing subsystem on Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 we simply run the bsmconv command-line utility from the /etc/security directory

Configure DNS services in Solaris 11 using SMF

Updated 9 Jan 2013 Read time 1 min 19 sec(s) (1630 visits).

The previous method of modifying a configuration file to configure naming services no longer works we now reply on SMF.

How to reboot a Solaris Zone stuck in shutting_down state

Updated 28 Mar 2012 Read time 49 sec(s) (3239 visits).

To solve this problem, try one or more of following commands on the global zone until the zone state changes to Installed.

How to boot a Solaris system without starting any services

Updated 5 Mar 2012 Read time 47 sec(s) (2034 visits).

If problems with starting services occur, sometimes a system hangs during the boot process. This procedure shows how to troubleshoot this problem.

How to Boot a system with the Kernel Debugger (kmdb) enabled

Updated 5 Mar 2012 Read time 1 min 8 sec(s) (1576 visits).

This is a simple procedure which shows how to load the kernel debugger (kmdb)

How to use zlogin to Shutdown and Start a zone

Updated 14 Nov 2013 Read time 1 min 1 sec (1547 visits).

You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorization in the global zone to perform these procedures.

Configuring DNS services in Solaris 11

Published 24 Feb 2012 Read time 32 sec(s) (411 visits).

Modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf to configure naming services is depricated in Solaris 11, We now perform this task using SMF.

Cleaning up the Live Upgrade environment

Updated 10 Jan 2012 Read time 4 min(s) 37 sec(s) (691 visits).

A simple process to cleanup the LiveUpgrade configuration for the solenv1 and alternative boot environments without impacting the system.