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

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Solaris Software Patches

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Patches are identified by unique alphanumeric strings. The patch base code, then a hyphen, and then a number that represents the patch revision number

Tuning a Solaris UFS file system

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Using the tunesfs command you can modify certain parameters after creating the original file system without rebuilding the entire file system.

Changing hostid under Solaris 8

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To change the hostid, usually it's sufficient (and very easy) to use the hid ( or hid2 ) programs, which change the hostid of the running kernel.

Creating a Solaris Zone on ZFS

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The following is a simple example of creating a ZFS filesystem and using it to hold a newly-created Solaris Zone (Solaris Container)

Recreating /dev/null in Solaris

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A simple procedure to recreate /dev/null on a Solaris system using the mknod command to create a special character device.

Patching Solaris with Sun Patch Manager 2

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Sun have decided to terminate (end-of-support) Patch Manager 2.0 support. You are now recommended to use Sun Update Manager instead.

Solaris preboot execution environment (PXE)

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For standard Sparc servers the normal method of setting up a jumpstart is the be st forward, but for X86 clients PXE is the way to boot Solaris.

stop/start syslogd on Solaris (updated)

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syslog is an important facility need in all enterprises. We as sysadmins look at syslogs as a critical source to troubleshoot performance issues