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Running Gramps 3.2.0 genealogy software on Solaris 11 Express

Published 27 Jul 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 2 sec(s) (3194 visits).

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

Published 22 Jul 2011 Read time 1 min 28 sec(s) (2498 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

Published 21 Jul 2011 Read time 1 min 5 sec(s) (3453 visits).

Installing a package using CYGWINs apt-cyg utility

Updated 18 Jul 2011 Read time 1 min 14 sec(s) (625 visits).

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

Published 8 Jul 2011 Read time 47 sec(s) (2800 visits).

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

Updated 5 Jul 2011 Read time 1 min 34 sec(s) (639 visits).

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

Published 1 Jul 2011 Read time 4 min(s) 52 sec(s) (4086 visits).

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

Published 29 Jun 2011 Read time 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2549 visits).

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

Published 29 Jun 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 1 sec (2828 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.

Published 28 Jun 2011 Read time 4 min(s) 8 sec(s) (2430 visits).

A simple post which outlines the steps needed to configure iSCSI with Multipathing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5