church1e's blog

Changing Solaris password with an expect script

4 Mar 2010 1 minute read 3343 visits.

Changing a users password without user input is easy under Linux using the chpasswd command. On Solaris this does not exist.

1 Mar 2010 1 minute read 3477 visits.

The 3 major players, at the moment, in the virtualisation market are VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.

1 Mar 2010 2 minute read 3071 visits.

When starting off in virtualisation you can use products such as MS Virtual server or VMware workstation/server.

21 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3017 visits.

The standard pager in Solaris is more, the standard pager in Linux is less, so is less more or most

25 Feb 2011 1 minute read 2964 visits.

This trick isn't widely known but you can install a Solaris package directly from a HTTP source.

25 Feb 2011 1 minute read 3413 visits.

Many people install lsof on their system as they know it from Linux. But you have a similar tool in Solaris, namely pfiles.

11 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3517 visits.

A simple post providing various methods of converting hexadecimal, binary and decimal with different Solaris commands,

10 Feb 2010 1 minute read 3370 visits.

An article outlining steps needed to be able to use the SSH to access a remote system without supplying a password each time that you connect.

1 Feb 2010 2 minute read 3526 visits.

IPC allows information transfer or synchronization to occur between processes.

28 Jan 2010 1 minute read 1317 visits.

With sadness yesterday saw Sun Microsystems becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle.