Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Viewing Processes with the prstat command

3 Aug 2007 2 minute read 2879 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 2523 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 2619 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 2688 visits.

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

28 May 2009 2 minute read 2607 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.

12 Jun 2009 2 minute read 973 visits.

Whilst there is an abundance of documentation on creating containers, the goal here is to create a container in the fewest number of steps.

15 Dec 2006 2 minute read 3291 visits.

When enabled, all changes to file system meta-data are written to an intent log prior to being written out to the file system itself.

10 Jul 2012 1 minute read 423 visits.

Why is my long password truncated to 8 characters, classed as weak, doesn't have enough different characters or classes — Hmmm! go figure.

9 Jul 2006 1 minute read 2776 visits.

This is a simple procedure to display the version of SunCluster installed on a given system.

18 Mar 2006 1 minute read 2647 visits.

SunOS is the core operating system and Solaris is the broader environment comprising SunOS, OpenWindows and networking support