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Solaris vs RHEL - UNIX Essential differences

22 Oct 2003 3 minute read 2512 visits.

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

22 Oct 2003 1 minute read 2597 visits.

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

14 Oct 2003 2 minute read 3782 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 minute read 3435 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 1 minute read 3304 visits.

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

19 Aug 2003 1 minute read 2690 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 minute read 2579 visits.

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

30 Jul 2003 2 minute read 3323 visits.

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

11 Jul 2003 3 minute read 2896 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 1 minute read 932 visits.

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