Those of you still on Solaris 10 may want to download the latest Recommended Patchset for Solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of January 2016. There's only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines … [Continue reading] about Recommended Patchset for Solaris 10 – January 2016
Joyent CLI basics
I've been trying different SmartOS images with Joyent for some time now, but always did everything from the Dashboard. Joyent's wonderful dashboard Most users will never need anything else: the Joyent's dashboard is incredible - simple yet powerful, … [Continue reading] about Joyent CLI basics
Behaviour of the audit daemon
Always wanted to know how to make a clean start with nightly log rotations in Solaris audit setup. Turns out it could't be simpler! From the audit(1M) man page: audit - control the behavior of the audit daemon and a bit further down: -s … [Continue reading] about Behaviour of the audit daemon
How To: Confirm Link Speed for a Network Interface
Here's a one liner that is really useful when you need to quickly confirm the link speed for network interfaces on your system. The beauty of this command is that you can run it as a regular user: bash-3.00$ kstat -p | grep link_speed … [Continue reading] about How To: Confirm Link Speed for a Network Interface
Using nohup for existing processes
Most of you are probably aware with the fact that by default any processes you may have running within your session will be killed once you terminate the session. The most common example is logging onto a remote server via SSH, starting some command … [Continue reading] about Using nohup for existing processes