This is a procedure that might be useful if you ever have to grow a Solaris VTOC /SMI partition cont...
Solaris has built-in IP Multi Pathing. IPMP can be setup with either IP tracking or link based. This...
Ever run a very large job and regretting not starting it in the excellent screen utility? If you don...
Sometimes you have a VM that you just don't care about security. I do the following to cheat a littl...
I haven't tried this yet in a real world example. In some instances you might be moving large amount...
I recently had to touch a pretty old AIX OS and it frustrated me not to have human readable output f...
I recently had an issue where the Solaris SMF did not want to update my /etc/resolv.conf file. Even...
I had to do the following to display a X terminal remotely.
Solaris 10:
This initial Solaris inst...
By default Solaris 10 use "/" as root's home directory and plain sh as a shell. If you want to chang...
Solaris use Role Based Access which is a better way to allow system access to defined users and only...
If you experience issues with installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions it could be that the build e...
I recently needed to copy files using scp, while not able to copy directly to the target host. I had...
UPDATE: 1: On a subsequent kernel upgrade to 3.8.0.25 I realized that the zfs modules are getting...
For those familiar with the excellent ZFS file system and the Sun(now Oracle) storage products built...
In a previous article I setup Ubuntu 13.04 to run off a ZFS root pool. During my setup I used 4G out...