A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Adding fonts in Solaris 11

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fontconfig is used to manage all types of fonts including PostScript and TrueType fonts in the Solaris desktop environment.

Creating a Flash Archive Recovery (FLAR) Image

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This article provides simple instructions to create a Flash Archive image that can be loaded onto the target system to recover from a failed drive.

Restricting Access to SSH Connections

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A set of direcetives that are under used are the AllowUsers, AllowGroups, DenyUsers and DenyGroups to restrict user and groups remote access with SSH.

Securing SSH on Solaris 10

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It is strongly recommended that sites abandon older clear-text login protocols and use SSH to prevent sniffing of sensitive data off the network

Repairing a corrupt SMF Repository

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Without a working SMF repository the system will not be able to boot. This article provides the steps to restore a working copy of the database.

Solaris UADMIN commands

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The uadmin command is tightly coupled to the system administration procedures and is not intended for general use

Starting and Stopping Solaris services with svcadm

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svcadm issues requests for actions on services executing within the SMF. Actions for a service are carried out by its assigned service agent.