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Solaris package management

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

Solaris Crash Dumps

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

Solaris Crash Dump Analysis (CDA)

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

Solaris backup and restore utilities

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A brief overview of the various backup and restore utilities available under the Solaris operating system.

Components of a UFS file system

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When you create a UFS file system, the disk slice is divided into cylinder groups.

soft links and hard links in Solaris

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A link is a pointer to another file or directory. Links provide a mechanism for multiple file names to reference the same data on disk.

Solaris file types

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The file type can usually be identified by looking at the first character of the first column of information when using the ls command

Controlling User Disk Space Usage

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Quotas let system administrators control the size of UFS file systems by limiting the amount of disk space that individual users can acquire.

Solstice Backup Server Recovery (pre 6.x)

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A procedure to recovering from the loss or corruption of a Solstice Backup servers critical files including the index, media index, and resource files