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Basic Solaris Network Troubleshooting

Updated 22 Apr 2001 Read time 3 min(s) 23 sec(s) (2439 visits).

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

Updated 19 Apr 2001 Read time 50 sec(s) (2389 visits).

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

Updated 30 Nov 2000 Read time 8 min(s) 49 sec(s) (1645 visits).

An updated quick reference quide for sysadmins to contrast the Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3 operating systems.

Updated 30 Nov 2000 Read time 3 min(s) 1 sec (2952 visits).

A short article providing common troubleshooting reference between Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3 operating systems.

Updated 21 Apr 2001 Read time 26 min(s) 11 sec(s) (3018 visits).

There are a number of utilities and files that come into play with tape drives in Solaris, and it is helpful to know how all the pieces fit together.

Updated 12 Sep 2000 Read time 1 min 33 sec(s) (1008 visits).

This is a simple article providing a quick procedure to remove NIS completely from a Master Server, Slave Server, and NIS clients.

Updated 9 Jun 2000 Read time 48 sec(s) (1996 visits).

The following tables list the switches that have been tested with Sun Trunking software.

Updated 14 May 2002 Read time 25 sec(s) (2457 visits).

gunzip: File too large / gzip: Value too large for defined data type

Updated 2 Apr 2004 Read time 39 sec(s) (2275 visits).

Solaris 8 uses a number of commands to manage software installed on the OS. This short cheat sheet provides the basic package management commands.

Updated 2 Jan 2003 Read time 3 min(s) 27 sec(s) (597 visits).

If a Solaris system crashes (panic) it is possible to write the entire contents of memory to disk for later analysis.