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Solaris Name Services

27 May 2003 2 minute read 2795 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 minute read 2703 visits.

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

13 Mar 2003 3 minute read 2565 visits.

The OBDiag utility is an OpenBoot program designed to help the system administrator run extensive hardware diagnostics on a Sun SPARC system.

22 Nov 2004 3 minute read 2720 visits.

The cron daemon has a limit of how many jobs run simultaneously. If a new job is scheduled and the limit is reached the job will be rescheduled.

2 Jan 2003 2 minute read 2588 visits.

A crash dump is a snapshot of the physical memory, saved on disk, at the time that a fatal system error occurs.

2 Jan 2003 3 minute read 2727 visits.

Core files are created when a program or an application terminates abnormally and are by default eritten to the current working directory.

16 Sep 2002 2 minute read 3074 visits.

Veritas Volume Replicator aides in an effective maintain a consistent copy of application data at one or more remote locations via data-replication

10 Sep 2002 1 minute read 3247 visits.

The Solaris Management Console (SMC) includes a graphical tool to create and schedule jobs on your system.

11 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3050 visits.

This article simply provides a list of commands to allow Solaris to detect newly added devices.

11 Feb 2005 1 minute read 2759 visits.

Depending on the programming interface used, an application may not be able to reach the file descriptor limit.