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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 job scheduler

Updated 10 Sep 2002 Read time 39 sec(s) (2964 visits).

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

How do I make Solaris system aware of new devices?

Updated 11 Feb 2010 Read time 1 min 32 sec(s) (2775 visits).

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

Increasing the number of file descriptors available to an application

Updated 11 Feb 2005 Read time 58 sec(s) (2452 visits).

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

Setting up a SAN Tape device on Solaris

Updated 28 Jul 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2470 visits).

Use the following procedure to configure a Solaris system to utilise fabric tape.

Minimum disk configuration for Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage arrays

Updated 12 Jul 2002 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2874 visits).

This article provides a quick guide to the supported disk configuration on a Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage array.

Stopping and Starting CDE

Updated 16 Jun 2002 Read time 32 sec(s) (2331 visits).

The Common Desktop Environment compatible among various workstation manufacturers, provides users with a desktop graphical interface on the Solaris OS

Installing Manual pages in Solaris

Updated 26 Feb 2002 Read time 1 min 21 sec(s) (2934 visits).

You need to have both the SUNWdoc and SUNWman packages installed on a Solaris system in order to view manual pages.

Solaris Run Control Scripts

Updated 18 Jan 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 1 sec (532 visits).

Run Control (rc) scripts are used to start and stop processes at boot up and shutdown.

Preventing a Solaris 'Ping of Death' attack

Updated 3 Dec 2001 Read time 1 min 52 sec(s) (700 visits).

The Ping of Death attack, first seen in 1996, is achieved using the Internet control message protocol, or ICMP (hence the name ?Ping of Death?).

Sun Explorer Utility (SUNWexplo)

Updated 1 Jul 2001 Read time 58 sec(s) (2513 visits).

The Sun Explorer utility gathers information and creates detailed snapshots of a systems architecture and configuration.