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Shell useful tricks (basic stuff)

February 26th, 2010
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 »
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Nokia 5530 issues with Media Library

January 1st, 2010
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 »
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Solaris 10 container guide

December 2nd, 2009
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 »

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MAC address from OBP prompt

November 11th, 2009
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 »

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Squid log rotation with timestamp

November 6th, 2009
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 »
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How to migrate from dying system disk to new one in Solaris

November 4th, 2009
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 »
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Change failed hdd in submirror in Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)

November 3rd, 2009
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 »

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