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Disable syslog "remote logging" under Solaris

9 Nov 2007 1 minute read 3556 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 minute read 3161 visits.

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

17 Aug 2007 1 minute read 387 visits.

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

3 Aug 2007 3 minute read 3456 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 minute read 3109 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 minute read 2764 visits.

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

13 Jul 2007 1 minute read 2829 visits.

This post provides brief differences in the log files used for System Logging of the most common versions of UNIX.

13 Jul 2007 2 minute read 2872 visits.

This article provides a brief overview of common differences in system configuration, management and security across multi-OS environments.

21 Aug 2008 1 minute read 121 visits.

Solaris and Linux both have runlevels. However the meanings are somewhat different.

28 May 2009 2 minute read 2878 visits.

When installing patches on Solaris, you may often see error codes or Exit/Return codes when the patch installation fails. These are the return codes.