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

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Firefox scrolling on Solaris

Solaris will try to paste the top most thing in your clipboard when you click your middle mouse button.

Troubleshooting common NFS errors

Over the years I have seen some of the most common NFS Error/Issues which occurs in very common now and then to most of Solaris system admins.

Troubleshooting various NFS errors

Identifying and solving a problem is called troubleshooting, which is arguably the most difficult task in any area of computers. NFS is no exception.

Solaris performance monitoring using K9 toolkit

In a nuyshell, the K9Toolkit is a collection of tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9 server to help locate performance bottlenecks.

Which Sun systems have ILOM, ALOM or RSC?

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is the system management firmware used to monitor, manage, and configure a variety of Sun server platforms.