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

1 Jun 2012 1 min 45 sec(s) 2661 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

12 May 2012 24 sec(s) 3072 visits.

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

Setting up Solaris 10 Accounting subsystem

17 Apr 2012 5 min(s) 45 sec(s) 1604 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

9 Jan 2013 1 min 19 sec(s) 1959 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

28 Mar 2012 49 sec(s) 3541 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

5 Mar 2012 47 sec(s) 2318 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

5 Mar 2012 1 min 8 sec(s) 1863 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

14 Nov 2013 1 min 1 sec 1774 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

24 Feb 2012 32 sec(s) 633 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

10 Jan 2012 4 min(s) 37 sec(s) 953 visits.

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