Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Common Solaris and AIX sysadmin tasks

30 Nov 2000 3 minute read 3222 visits.

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

21 Apr 2001 26 minute read 3369 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.

12 Sep 2000 1 minute read 1339 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 1 minute read 2241 visits.

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

14 May 2002 1 minute read 2709 visits.

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

2 Apr 2004 1 minute read 2569 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 minute read 862 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 minute read 3275 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 minute read 1807 visits.

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

2 Mar 2003 4 minute read 2618 visits.

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