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Special file permissons (setuid, setgid and sticky bit)

29 Jul 2011 2 min(s) 21 sec(s) 3433 visits.

setuid and setgid are unix access rights flags that allow users to run an executable with permissions of the executables owner and group respectively

27 Jul 2011 2 min(s) 2 sec(s) 3225 visits.

A simple article on how to install the Gramps (Genealogical Research Software) on the Solaris/OpenSolaris Operating Systems.

22 Jul 2011 1 min 28 sec(s) 2527 visits.

In a nutshell users will be tied-down to a specific directory which they will not be able to move from, thus prevention from seeing you entire system

21 Jul 2011 1 min 5 sec(s) 3491 visits.

Installing a package using CYGWINs apt-cyg utility

18 Jul 2011 1 min 14 sec(s) 658 visits.

A simple procedure to recover the SunFire T1000/T2000 ALOM password by resetting the ALOM NVRAM settings.

8 Jul 2011 47 sec(s) 2833 visits.

The main advantage of using nsrwatch over NMC, is that NMC operations are usually delayed, whereas nsrwatch displays operations in near realtime.

5 Jul 2011 1 min 34 sec(s) 667 visits.

Using 'prtconf' and 'sar' we can determine the amount of memory installed on a Solaris SPARC or Soalris X86 system.

1 Jul 2011 4 min(s) 52 sec(s) 4152 visits.

How to verify the required Veritas NetBackup 7.0 daemons and services are up and running on a master or media server.

29 Jun 2011 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) 2587 visits.

These commands can be run against a specific process, but most of them can also be run against all processes on the system.

29 Jun 2011 2 min(s) 1 sec 2859 visits.

The /etc/inittab file plays a crucial role in the boot sequence. For versions of Solaris prior to version 10, the /etc/inittab was edited manually.