
A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.
SunOS 4.1x and 5.x Administrative File differences
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
Continue reading...SunOS 4.1x and 5.x Administrative Command differences
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
Continue reading...Sun Diskless Workstation Boot Sequence
To boot diskless workstations need to determine who they are, locate their boot server, locate their kernel and mount file systems from the server
Continue reading...NIS+ Credential Setup
To gain authorisation to change NIS+ databases you need to create your security credentials for the NIS+ principals
Continue reading...Useful Sun OpenBoot PROM (obp) commands
All the following commands are to be run from the ok prompt of the SPARC OBP and not the Solaris operating system.
Continue reading...Solaris run levels (updated)
A system's run level (also known as an init state) defines what services and resources are available to users.
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