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Disabling SELinux in Oracle Linux 6

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In this post, we walk through steps you can follow to check the status of SELinux and also disable it in OEL 6, if it is enabled.

Solaris Deferred Activation Patching (DAP)

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With DAP the reboot is deferred until all patching is completed unlike non-DAP kernel patches which forced reboot before other patches can be applied.

Introduction to Solaris Live Upgrade

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The Solaris Live Upgrade revolutionises the way that you add patches to Solaris products and can save you hours of time and effort.

fssnap of / (root) fails under Solaris

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Using fssnap we can quickly take a temporary snapshot of any UFS file system and then use that snapshot for backup operations.

UFS snaphots

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Basically, a snapshot is read-only copy of a file system (for the purpose of backup).

Renaming Sun Cluster node names

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Sometime hostname need to be changed especially when your customer want to make some list of server more orderly and correctly identify your machine

VxVM 5.1 exit codes

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The majority of the VxVM utilities use a common set of exit codes, which allow programs to react to specific problems detected by the utilities.