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Removing NIS from a Solaris system

12 Sep 2000 1 min 33 sec(s) 1325 visits.

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

9 Jun 2000 48 sec(s) 2226 visits.

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

14 May 2002 25 sec(s) 2693 visits.

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

2 Apr 2004 39 sec(s) 2545 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.

2 Jan 2003 3 min(s) 27 sec(s) 845 visits.

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

18 Jan 2000 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) 3259 visits.

Whatever the cause, the crash dump itself provides invaluable information to a support engineer to aid in diagnosing the problem.

27 Jan 2000 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) 1786 visits.

A brief overview of the various backup and restore utilities available under the Solaris operating system.

2 Mar 2003 4 min(s) 32 sec(s) 2585 visits.

When you create a UFS file system, the disk slice is divided into cylinder groups.

29 Nov 1999 24 sec(s) 3149 visits.

savecore under solaris 2.6 fails with 2GB or larger swap partitions

10 Aug 2005 6 min(s) 11 sec(s) 2627 visits.

A link is a pointer to another file or directory. Links provide a mechanism for multiple file names to reference the same data on disk.