Solaris articles - church1e's blog

A simple Disk Wipe procedure on Solaris

29 Mar 1999 1 minute read 3605 visits.

Overwriting a disk with the format command is usually enough for most purposes, because it greatly reduces the chance that any data can be recovered.

19 Feb 1999 1 minute read 2645 visits.

The st.conf is the configiuration file for the st (SCSI Tape) driver on the Solaris Operating System.

5 Jan 1999 1 minute read 2693 visits.

Ever needed to get Solaris to detect disks; the method depends on the version of Solaris. This article provides a how to

4 Dec 1998 1 minute read 256 visits.

ping or not to ping that is a solaris quirk

22 Oct 1998 1 minute read 2550 visits.

A simple one liner to help find and remove core files from a given system.

17 Sep 1998 1 minute read 3140 visits.

Some very useful command in Solaris to find more about a given binary.

14 Aug 1998 2 minute read 2676 visits.

A short article providing various keyboard shortcuts for command line edit of any commands quick and easily.

8 Aug 1998 1 minute read 3198 visits.

This article provides a list of the important files that have changed between SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) based systems

8 Aug 1998 3 minute read 2619 visits.

This article provides a summary of the SunOS administrative command differences between SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) based systems

8 Aug 1998 1 minute read 3260 visits.

To boot diskless workstations need to determine who they are, locate their boot server, locate their kernel and mount file systems from the server