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Solaris Infrequently Asked and Obscure Questions

January 14th, 2010
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When user has last changed his password in Solaris

December 24th, 2009
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 »

Zones related commands

December 16th, 2009
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 »

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 »