Solaris articles - church1e's blog

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

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Configuring Core Files

2 Jan 2003 3 minute read 2910 visits.

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

16 Sep 2002 2 minute read 3374 visits.

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

10 Sep 2002 1 minute read 3434 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?

11 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3283 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

11 Feb 2005 1 minute read 2972 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

28 Jul 2002 2 minute read 2986 visits.

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

Minimum disk configuration for Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage arrays

12 Jul 2002 1 minute read 3326 visits.

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

Stopping and Starting CDE

16 Jun 2002 1 minute read 2779 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

26 Feb 2002 1 minute read 3384 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

18 Jan 2002 2 minute read 1021 visits.

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