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Disabling services in Solaris 10

22 Apr 2011 27 sec(s) 2650 visits.

To disable a service under Solaris 10 we use the svcadm command.

1 May 2012 1 min 50 sec(s) 3095 visits.

The traditional method of changing the hostname of a given solaris system was to use sys-unconfig utility.

14 Mar 2017 24 sec(s) 3251 visits.

The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) identifies hardware that is compatible with Solaris and provides information about available software support.

16 Dec 2007 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) 1338 visits.

Setting up a Solaris system as a DHCP client is fairly straight forward, it's just a matter of setting up files on your system.

9 Nov 2007 1 min 14 sec(s) 3297 visits.

syslog remote logging under Solaris by default is enabled and will listen on UDP port 514 for syslog messages from remote servers.

26 Sep 2007 1 min 57 sec(s) 2757 visits.

IPF provides stateful packet filtering capabilities by IP address, network, port, protocol, network interface and traffic direction.

17 Aug 2007 1 min 0 sec(s) 182 visits.

Accessing a tape device (or any device) from a non-global zone in Solaris

3 Aug 2007 3 min(s) 10 sec(s) 3174 visits.

The pgrep command lets you specify the criteria and then displays the information only about the processes that match the criteria.

3 Aug 2007 2 min(s) 44 sec(s) 2860 visits.

The prstat command displays information about processes similar to ps and pgrep commands but refreshes (updates) the output in a periodic fashion

26 Jul 2007 2 min(s) 6 sec(s) 2503 visits.

With later releases of Solaris, if you want to, you can manually lock down your system using the netstat, svcs and svcadm commands.