Thanks to links I've got from Robert Milkowski's Solaris Internals blog entry, I went to the Pearson Education website and ordered myself a book on Solaris 10, which every active Solaris user or administrator should definitely read: Solaris™ … [Continue reading] about Books on Solaris
SMF: offline or disabled services
When something doesn't work like expected, one of the first commands to find what's wrong is svcs -a. But there are other ways to use this command. For instance, the following command will show only disabled and offline services, which quite often … [Continue reading] about SMF: offline or disabled services
DTrace: predicates
You don't have conditional statements like if..then..else in DTrace, instead of them predicates are used. Predicates are slash (/) wrapped conditions which are put right after the lines of probe definitions, defining whether DTrace should or … [Continue reading] about DTrace: predicates
Be careful with Jumpstart miniroot
Last few days I'm working on debugging the Solaris 10 Jumpstart install for some old desktops (Ultra 10, Ultra 60). Among few well-known problems, I've noticed such an anomaly: the whole Jumpstart session happens just fine, all the packages are … [Continue reading] about Be careful with Jumpstart miniroot
NVidia OpenGL driver for Solaris x64/x86
Wonderful news! Finally, we have an OpenGL driver for x86! As Alan already said, NVidia has finally released an OpenGL driver. This driver will work only in Solaris 10 and newer Solaris releases. Everything works just fine, and just like Sean had … [Continue reading] about NVidia OpenGL driver for Solaris x64/x86