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Patching Solaris 10 zones in parallel

22 Apr 2011 1 minute read 2752 visits.

Every sysadmin that has upgraded or patched a system running multiples zones will tell it, the upgrade was an undefinably long process.

5 Jun 2009 1 minute read 2824 visits.

APT originally designed as a front-end for dpkg to work with debian packages, but it has since been modified to also work with the RPM via apt-rpm.

2 Jun 2009 5 minute read 1863 visits.

The difference between a snapshot and a clone is that a clone is a writable, mountable copy of the file system.

1 Jun 2009 4 minute read 772 visits.

This article simply provides addiational zone states from my previous post on the subject.

31 May 2009 1 minute read 2896 visits.

This article simply provides a zone state flow chart and a table listing the state of non-global zones under Solaris.

21 May 2009 2 minute read 3277 visits.

Distinguishing between a failed disk and a failing disk may save you time when you need to replace it.

18 May 2009 3 minute read 3682 visits.

The listener process runs on the database server. It receives client requests and manages the traffic of these requests to the database server.

12 May 2009 1 minute read 3082 visits.

The dbgcommand allows capturing debug info on the fly without restarting NetWorker processes/services.

18 Oct 2011 1 minute read 2742 visits.

inetadm is used in Solaris 10 to managing inetd services. If you run without any parameters you simply get a list of all services and status

4 May 2009 2 minute read 3626 visits.

The following are the steps required to enable archive log mode on an Oracle 10g or 11g database.