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

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Stopping and Starting CDE

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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

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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

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

Preventing a Solaris 'Ping of Death' attack

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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)

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

Basic Solaris Network Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting potential Solaris network services and issues using standard everyday tools ping, snoop, netstat and nfsstat.

Finding Solaris release and kernel info

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Do you need to determine which release of Solaris you are running? Or other useful information that comes with it? The read more