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 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

2 min(s) 16 sec(s)    3413 visits.

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

2 min(s) 15 sec(s)    2499 visits.

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

Identifying an ethernet (MAC) address in Solaris

1 min 14 sec(s)    5719 visits.

Identifying a ethernet MAC address in Solaris as a non-root user is not as difficult as people think. arp, netstat and prtpicl are your friends.

Configuring link based IPMP on Solaris

2 min(s) 12 sec(s)    975 visits.

IP network multipathing (IPMP) provides a mechanism for building redundant network interfaces to guard against failures with network interfaces.