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.

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

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

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

To gain authorisation to change NIS+ databases you need to create your security credentials for the NIS+ principals

All the following commands are to be run from the ok prompt of the SPARC OBP and not the Solaris operating system.

A system's run level (also known as an init state) defines what services and resources are available to users.