Nice tricks with shell, I discovered in internet darkest corners :)Brace expansion takes a list of strings separated by commas and expands those strings into separate arguments for you. The list should be enclosed by braces.# echo {1,2,3,4,5}… more »

Post completely unrelated to Solaris :>>   I do have this baby - and it rock! Nice OS, 200$, mp3 playback at the mid-range PMP device level and nice design is giving me faith to Nokia.     But today I had first issues with music librar… more »

Very nice and worth-to-read document about the containers in Solaris 10, best practices and how-to`s. Definatley worth to check it here. more »

When you are Jumpstarting/JET`ing server, the first info you`ll need is the MAC address of the interface you`ll be using as primary for client. To get MAC address of the primary interface from OBP use this command:   {1} ok .enet-addr 0:3:ba:d… more »

I had a task on implementing the Squid log rotation, but with timestamps. System was on Solaris - but logadm wasn`t the chosen weapon for this task, and we moved to the squid internal capabilities on logs rotation. Only task was to add the timestamp, whi… more »

If your HDD with system is dying, you have the same HDD (in matter of size), and you`re using UFS - you could do the next steps to completly recreate this disk to a new one: 1. Check the disks (with attached new one): # format 2. Copy the VTOC from… more »

I had an hdd failed in SVM. Well, nothing special - everyone met this situation, when output like this on prod box scare you as hell:     # iostat -En   ... c1t0d0          Soft Errors: 607 Hard Errors: 122 Transport Errors: 130 Vend… more »