Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Creating a Solaris FLAR image

13 Jan 2011 1 min 56 sec(s) 2756 visits.

A Solaris FLAR image can be used for reinstalling the OS one the original host and other systems.

19 Mar 2015 1 min 45 sec(s) 2891 visits.

The automounter has built in debugging, which can be used to examine exactly what the automounter is doing.

15 Dec 2010 1 min 7 sec(s) 2948 visits.

A sparse file is a type of file that attempts to use file system space more efficiently when blocks allocated to the file are mostly empty.

14 Dec 2010 1 min 16 sec(s) 2916 visits.

In the event of drastic file permission or ownership changes, it is possible to restore the original permissions of the file(s)

13 Dec 2010 2 min(s) 27 sec(s) 2684 visits.

The beauty of zones under Solaris for me is the ability to clone any zone and then easily adapt it for it's new resources and function.

13 Dec 2010 1 min 38 sec(s) 4083 visits.

A simple procedure to uninstall a solaris zone in an incomplete state

14 Oct 2010 5 min(s) 40 sec(s) 720 visits.

This is a step-by-step tutorial that explains the installation and configuration of ypserv NIS server and client.

2 Nov 2010 2 min(s) 29 sec(s) 2738 visits.

When we aggregate two or more network interfaces we are forming a new network interface on top of those physical interfaces.

30 Sep 2010 2 min(s) 21 sec(s) 2561 visits.

Under Solaris 10 we use the svcs command to provide information about services, including their status.

4 Jul 2010 45 sec(s) 2731 visits.

This is a simple post providing the necessary steps to disable NIS client on Solaris 10.