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

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Listing avilable Solaris 10 services

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

Troubleshooting a hung process

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Using truss/strace is a simple method to verify if a running process is performing any activity or is in a hung state whilst making a system calls.

EFI and SUN Disk Labels

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Have you ever got into a situation where you can't install a new system as you forgot to change the disk label from EFI prior to install?

Solaris Branded Zones

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Branded zones are Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 containers created in a Solaris 10 global zone with BrandZ framework to extend the Solaris zones.

Automatic home directory creation

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Using the executable maps feature in Solaris automounter we can create an authenticated users home directory automatically if it does not exist.