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 vs RHEL - NetAdmin differences

The following sections detail the differences between the Solaris 9 OS and Red Hat Linux with respect to network administration tasks

Solaris vs RHEL - Advanced SysAdmin differences

The following sections detail the differences between the Solaris 9 OS and Red Hat Linux with respect to advanced system administration tasks

Solaris vs RHEL - SysAdmin differences

The following sections detail the differences between the Solaris 9 OS and Red Hat Linux with respect to system administration tasks.

Solaris vs RHEL - UNIX Essential differences

The following sections detail the differences between the Solaris 9 OS and Red Hat Linux with respect to basic tasks and component

Solaris vs RHEL differences

The purpose of this document series is to introduce the system and network administration features of Red Hat Linux for Solaris Administrators.

Using the truss command on Solaris

The truss command is used to trace system and library calls on a Sun or Sequent system. Which is similar to strace on Linux based systems

Solaris reconfiguration boot

During a reconfiguration restart, a device hierarchy is created in the /devices file system to represent the devices connected to the system.

Solaris pseudo file systems

Solaris pseudo file systems look like an ordinary file system but are actually a method whereby various system and process data can be accessed.

Solaris File Systems

Solaris supports a number of different file systems some out of the box, others by ways of additional software.