Thanks to a post by Graeme Mathieson in his fabulous blog Notes from a messy desk I found out that VMware has ported their virtualization product to OSX. It is called Fusion and currently they are running a open beta program. Since I use a MacBook for all my desktop work at home I thought […]
Solaris is bundled with a tool called smpatch but my personal experience from using it is very poor. It is slow and not always that easy to use. This is of course only my personal opinion.
Fortunately Martin Paul has created a tool called Patch Check Advanced (PCA). It is fast and I find it very […]
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 […]
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 […]
