Welcome to 2012!
Hi all, happy New Year!
Just thought I’ll take a few minutes to welcome you to the new year and to thank you once again for staying with the Solaris Blog for so long!
My plans for this blog are quite humble in the view of Solaris not being a primary Unix-like OS at work anymore, but I’m still quite curious about a few things and would gladly share knowledge and answer your questions to my best ability.
So far, the following topics appear to be most useful:
- Anything to do with SSH (stay tuned and take a minute to become RSS reader of my Unix Tutorial blog – I plan on releasing an SSH eBook later this year which many of you will find useful) – yes, it will cover passwordless SSH and will have some of the best X11 forwarding recipes
- DTrace tips – still my favorite from Solaris 10 times, DTrace is truly amazing. I’m both surprised and glad that it made its way into many other operating systems. If anything, I’ll be sharing occasional tips on DTrace in Mac OSX. I will assume you’ve all seen Brendan Gregg’s excellent DTrace Tools kit!
- ZFS – this proved to be so useful and revolutionary at the time that ZFS can now be found in a number of appliances and OS distros for NAS storage management (hello ZFS Build, Nexenta and Zena Box!)
I plan to expand sections of the blog covering these topics, but will gladly add anything you may find useful enough to flag in the comments section.
I’m really looking forward to 2012, and hope there will be more than one occasion when you will find my tips useful and readily applicable. Talk soon!
Oracle Sends a Strong Message about Sun Microsystems
Really glad to see the address Larry Ellison gave to all the Sun customers on the Oracle website:
- more money to develop SPARC
- more money to develop Solaris
- dramatic improvement in Sun’s hardware performance through tight integration with Oracle software
I’ve seen many comments from existing Sun employees and the message above is seen as both strong and very positive. Hope this brings Sun Microsystems better days, it’s a great company with amazing people.
Share your Solaris OS experience and win a prize!
Just got an email from the Frontline Systems representative about a competition they’re running at the moment.
Changing hostname in Solaris
I had to change the host name in one of Solaris zones today, and just out of curiousity looked into /etc/init.d/network script. That’s how I learned a new (to me) option of the uname command, which seems to be specific to Solaris: uname -S <newhostname>.
So here’s a very simple procedure for updating the hostname of your Solaris 10 server.
Solaris 10 patch return codes
Now that some of the systems I have to regularly patch are Solaris 10 ones, I have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the Sun’s recommended patchsets. It’s similar to the Solaris 8/9 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list.
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Unix Tutorial- Passwordless SSH with encrypted homedir in Ubuntu
- Welcome to 2012!
- Using dig command to confirm TTL for a DNS zone entry
- Upgrading Ubuntu with do-release-upgrade
- Mounting NFS shares on Mac OS X
- Suggest a topic for the Operating Systems Basics
- Unix Tutorial Gets its Own Page on Facebook
- How To Disable IPv6 in Red Hat Linux
- Climate Change: How You Can Help Prevent It
- Ask me a Unix question on Twitter