On most UNIX-like operating system all the standard binaries are install in /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin. There are some additional compatibility directories (at least on Solaris) but most of the essential binaries are to be found in those directories. If you download any kind of open source software (that doesn’t have a binary package […]
NTP (Network Time Protocol) is one of the most important things to setup on a new server. Accurate time keeping is important for a lot of applications, e.g logging, and it becomes even more important when you start to have multiple servers. Some badly written web applications sometimes takes the time from the database server […]
Roy Wood has a blog that targets a similar audience as my own. He write articles about UNIX system administration in particular about Solaris, Oracle, Sybase and other interesting technologies. He focus a lot on how to do things and in may be very interesting if you are an aspiring sysadmin. I will definitely keep […]
Oops! You just sent the root password for your central MySQL server to a big mailing list. You scramble to change it as fast as possible. Sometimes you may need to include a password or some other important information in cleartext in a script. A database backup script could be a good example. You whip […]
The last two entries has been about automatic zone installation, part 1 and part 2. With the provided script you can create as many zones as your platform can allow. But usually the story doesn’t end there. In 99.9% of the cases you want to customize the zone even more. In many cases you want […]
As I promised in my previous entry about zone installs I will now provide you with a script that will simplify those many steps into one simple concise command.
Why would you need to script such a thing? It was not that difficult to do it manually. But when you have a script you can do […]
In this article I will tell you about how to create a script to install a Solaris zone with one simple command. Zones is this really amazing features of Solaris 10. It is basically a virtual instance of Solaris running on top of the same kernel. You can have as many zones as you like […]
A lot of the content of this blog will focus on Solaris because I will utilize quite of lot the advanced features, e.g zones, zfs and DTrace. Today you can get Solaris in quite a lot of different flavors, Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris and Nexenta to name a few. Personally I run Solaris 10 but any […]
Hi and welcome to AspiringSysadmin.com. Contrary to what the title may imply this blog is not written by an Aspiring Sysadmin but the goal is to write for Aspiring Sysadmins. There are many sites out there that focus a lot on how to do things but I will mainly try to write about Why and […]
