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Solaris Infrequently Asked and Obscure Questions
January 14th, 2010Perfect information for unix admin to read through, absolutely worth reading! Get it here.
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When user has last changed his password in Solaris
December 24th, 2009Title 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 »
Zones related commands
December 16th, 2009Digging 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 »
How to migrate from dying system disk to new one in Solaris
November 4th, 2009If 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 »