Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Do you need to emulate /dev/random and /dev/urandom in Solaris?

5 Aug 2011 1 minute read 1383 visits.

A Solaris kernel module is now available to emulate /dev/random and /dev/urandom as seen in Linux based systems.

22 Jul 2011 1 minute read 2779 visits.

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

18 Jul 2011 1 minute read 860 visits.

A simple procedure to recover the SunFire T1000/T2000 ALOM password by resetting the ALOM NVRAM settings.

5 Jul 2011 1 minute read 903 visits.

Using 'prtconf' and 'sar' we can determine the amount of memory installed on a Solaris SPARC or Soalris X86 system.

29 Jun 2011 4 minute read 2944 visits.

These commands can be run against a specific process, but most of them can also be run against all processes on the system.

29 Jun 2011 2 minute read 3085 visits.

The /etc/inittab file plays a crucial role in the boot sequence. For versions of Solaris prior to version 10, the /etc/inittab was edited manually.

17 Jun 2011 3 minute read 2965 visits.

This is a simple post to answer the question ... How do I identify my file system type? and covers various falvours of UNIX and Linux

23 Oct 2011 1 minute read 4588 visits.

This article will document how to mount a Windows CIFS file share onto the local file system on the Solaris 11 server.

25 Apr 2011 1 minute read 1381 visits.

The beadm command enables users to manage their boot environments. This article provides a snapshot of the more command beadm subcommands.

22 Apr 2011 3 minute read 3483 visits.

Under Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris the SMF has been upgraded. There are great new tools to handle the sysadmin work on the services.