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Solaris patch return codes - patchadd

When installing patches on Solaris, you may often see error codes or Exit/Return codes when the patch installation fails. These are the return codes.

Creating Solaris Containers

Whilst there is an abundance of documentation on creating containers, the goal here is to create a container in the fewest number of steps.

Dumping all resources into a single file

It's not uncommon to perform this task. In fact NetWorker does it everytime you run the NetWorker support nsr_support/nsrsup commands.

UFS logging in Solaris (updated)

When enabled, all changes to file system meta-data are written to an intent log prior to being written out to the file system itself.

Solaris password truncated to 8 characters

Why is my long password truncated to 8 characters, classed as weak, doesn't have enough different characters or classes — Hmmm! go figure.