Hi, I`ve found an very nice tool to administer SC (serial console) from within the Solaris itself. No need in Raritan, and friends to access SC. And the name is: # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/bin/scadm Just to know the console history use this:… more »

Awesome solaris/unix one liners, will definitely save a lot of time for any sysadmin. Take a look at them here. more »

Perfect information for unix admin to read through, absolutely worth reading! Get it here.     more »

Title says it all.  Since, the date of last change of password is in /etc/shadow:   root:x:14602:::::: That means, that root has last changed his password 14602 days after beginning of unix epoch, i.e. 1 Jan 1970. But we need to convert this into… more »

Digging through internet while deep-diving into Solaris zones, I have found few interesting commands, that related to the zones. Worth checking out: zonename - prints the name of the current zone ifconfig e1000g0:1 -zone zone01 - get the IP for this… 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 »