A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Using the OBDiag Utility

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

queue max run limit reached

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.

Crash Dump Configuration

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

Configuring Core Files

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

Basic VERITAS Volume Replicator Commands

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

Solaris job scheduler

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