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Using the truss command on Solaris

14 Oct 2003 2 min(s) 40 sec(s) 3751 visits.

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

3 Oct 2003 2 min(s) 5 sec(s) 3410 visits.

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

18 Sep 2003 22 sec(s) 3286 visits.

Under Solaris 10 the default sendmail config doesn't forward mail which can't be delivered locally to mailhost.

19 Aug 2003 53 sec(s) 2675 visits.

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

19 Aug 2003 2 min(s) 45 sec(s) 2560 visits.

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

30 Jul 2003 2 min(s) 47 sec(s) 3308 visits.

An entry on the Solaris /etc/vfstab file has seven fields, which are described in the following table.

11 Jul 2003 3 min(s) 21 sec(s) 2873 visits.

For every hard drive known to Solaris, there is a file in the /dev/dsk that is used to access that drive.

10 Nov 2003 50 sec(s) 908 visits.

This error can be caused by either no space available for /var or that the /var/adm/utmpx file itself is corrupt.

27 May 2003 2 min(s) 28 sec(s) 2769 visits.

With Solaris we have five name services include local files, nis (formerly YP), nisplus (NIS+), DNS and now we have LDAP.

13 Mar 2003 1 min 9 sec(s) 2684 visits.

This article shows how to gracefully shut down Solaris 9 from within the CDE, and from the Console Login.