To follow up on my previous post, 7 Basic Solaris Troubleshooting Tips, I now thought I would present some of the great information resources that are available to a Solaris sysadmin. As someone pointed out in a comment on this blog, it is not always easy to know what is different between a Linux and […]
If you have worked in a Linux environment you may be used to the locate command. It is very convenient to find files thay may be scattered around the hard drive. Solaris does not have this command by default but it is very easy to install.
I’m going to assume you have installed Blastwave. Blastwave is […]
One of the first things you learn is that backups are important and restores are even more important. Either you learn it by reading about it or most likely you learn it the hard way when you lose your data. Unfortunately most people won’t learn from their mistakes but they will continue to keep no […]
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 […]
