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Solaris tape device files and utilities

21 Apr 2001 26 minute read 3640 visits.

There are a number of utilities and files that come into play with tape drives in Solaris, and it is helpful to know how all the pieces fit together.

29 Nov 2000 2 minute read 4675 visits.

This article shows you how to configure NetWorker servers for Windows to use blat console based binary for sending email notifcations.

12 Sep 2000 1 minute read 1418 visits.

This is a simple article providing a quick procedure to remove NIS completely from a Master Server, Slave Server, and NIS clients.

10 Aug 2000 1 minute read 3378 visits.

A SYN Attack is a denial of service (DoS) attack that consumes all the resources on your machine, forcing you to reboot.

29 Jul 2000 1 minute read 3638 visits.

nsrim be default is executed by nsrd after a savegrp completes it's cycle.

9 Jun 2000 1 minute read 2325 visits.

The following tables list the switches that have been tested with Sun Trunking software.

14 May 2002 1 minute read 2788 visits.

gunzip: File too large / gzip: Value too large for defined data type

2 Apr 2004 1 minute read 2640 visits.

Solaris 8 uses a number of commands to manage software installed on the OS. This short cheat sheet provides the basic package management commands.

2 Jan 2003 3 minute read 930 visits.

If a Solaris system crashes (panic) it is possible to write the entire contents of memory to disk for later analysis.

18 Jan 2000 5 minute read 3345 visits.

Whatever the cause, the crash dump itself provides invaluable information to a support engineer to aid in diagnosing the problem.