church1e's blog

An introduction to Solaris Zones

18 Dec 2011 6 min(s) 33 sec(s) 2752 visits.

This post is an introduction to the new virtual technology introduced from Sun Microsystems, namely Solaris Zones (not containers)

10 Dec 2011 2 min(s) 5 sec(s) 3176 visits.

If like me you're not a fan of Spotlight and want to disable it completely then you can hese simple steps.

2 Sep 2013 49 sec(s) 756 visits.

You can use the zfs send command to send a copy of a snapshot stream and receive the snapshot stream in another pool

2 Sep 2013 2 min(s) 51 sec(s) 3133 visits.

ZFS has the ability to send and receive data. This can be used to combine snapshots, create backups, or replicate data between servers

7 Nov 2011 24 sec(s) 3002 visits.

This article provides the simple steps needed to gather SPCollects from a Celerra box

28 Oct 2011 56 sec(s) 745 visits.

The "isainfo" command determines whether the running Solaris kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit.

19 Oct 2011 2 min(s) 43 sec(s) 3064 visits.

Explanation of the Solaris 11 fine grained versioning schema for SRUs and updates

22 Jan 2012 1 min 13 sec(s) 3684 visits.

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable ftp on a given Solaris system.

17 Oct 2013 1 min 4 sec(s) 4923 visits.

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable telnet on a given Solaris system.

17 Oct 2011 2 min(s) 7 sec(s) 2889 visits.

Puppets automated management of installed applications and libraries can be enhanced with custom package repositories such as a custom repository.