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

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Troubleshooting ZFS Swap and Dump devices

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If you need to adjust the size of the swap volume after installation on an active system, review the following steps. See CR 6765386 for more info

Using the Solaris getent command

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The advantage of getent is that the command searches the information sources in the order in which they are configured in the name service switch file.

Troubleshooting Solaris memory usage

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With Solaris 9 and later, comes an extremly nice mdb command for checking how much memory is used in kernel, and how much is used in user space.

Solaris NFS

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NFS is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system. NFS works on a server-client model.

Restricting SFTP users with chrooted access

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In a nutshell users will be tied-down to a specific directory which they will not be able to move from, thus prevention from seeing you entire system