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Solaris is a UNIX certified operating system owned and developed by Oracle for SPARC, x86 and x86-64 processor architectures.

Solaris is a UNIX certified operating system for SPARC , i86,x86 and x86-64 processor architectures. It was developed by SUN Microsystems until 2010 when the company was acquired by Oracle Corp. Subsequently Solaris has been renamed Oracle Solaris.

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Solaris as a server OS - why?

I have no experience with Solaris and asked myself will I ever use it and why would I chose to do so. I couldn't answer that on my own, so here goes.. Please reply stating why exactly do you administer a Solaris box, why you wouldn't do so and…
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Solaris: What is the difference between .so and .so.1 files?

I am trying to understand how/why certain library files are dynamically loaded by the linker on Solaris. I am using ldd to see this (with the -s switch to see what paths are tried by the linker). As an example, if I run "ldd /usr/local/bin/isql…
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Extract files out of Solaris pkg file without installing

How can I extract the binaries out of a pkg file without adding them to the default locations under /usr or other default folder. I want to add this package under my own directory /our_own_directory/our_own_prefix_specific_for_this_package so it is…
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Solaris as a server OS - what are the disadvantages?

One of the recent questions asked about potential reasons to use Solaris on a server. I would like to ask about the opposite: What would be reasons to stay away from Solaris on a server? Package and patch management comes to mind, but I'm sure…
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How do I permanently change the hostname on Solaris 10?

I want to permanently change the hostname on a Solaris box. How do I do that?
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How to move a Solaris Container from one zfs filesystem to another on the same server?

This seems like a simple thing to do, if it would only work as documented. However, it doesn't work thanks to some bug in the zoneadm move process. Go figure. Firstly let me show what the trivial documentation says :…
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Solaris 11: understanding high values in the kernel statistics

what can cause these kernel statistics (as reported by top) to be so high? Kernel: 152661 ctxsw, 2475 trap, 99065 intr, 1449 syscall, 3 fork, 2373 flt Usually, my system has much lower values, e.g. Kernel: 487 ctxsw, 3 trap, 904 intr, 435 syscall,…
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Tar files older than x days

I have a directory which I would like to scan through and add each file older than 50 days to a new archive named archive.tar All files older than 50 days must be in one big tar not a tar for each file. How can I do this?
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What part of Solaris version string IDs the update?

Solaris 10 server. I need to determine if the server is Solaris 10 Update 9 or greater. Can someone interpret the version strings below? What part of those strings identifies the update that has, or has not, been applied to the server? # uname…
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Why can't I launch more than 1000 processes in Solaris 11?

I'm trying to launch more than 1000 processes, but it hangs at 999. e.g. #!/usr/bin/env zsh for i in {1..$1} ; do sleep 300 & done Then running it, $ ./launchsleep.sh 3000 …
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UFS filesystem creation date

How can I find out when a UFS filesystem was created on a Solaris 8 machine?
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How to use Solaris 10 as my desktop?

I need to do a lot of work on Solaris 10 for the next few weeks. Is there an easy way to get the common packages installed so the machine is more "modern". A Fedora install comes with a lot more packages, and the missing ones are a ´yum install'…
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Reset Root Password on Solaris 10

So, I have an interesting problem. The root password on one of our Sun x4500 machines was changed and never communicated. Now, nobody knows what it is. I have physical access to the machine, but no Solaris installation disc. Is there any way to…
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Solaris kstat - great tool, not much reference?

I am trying to use kstat for Solaris 10 monitoring, but it is pretty tough trying to find reference materials on what the individual codes decode to and what they mean. Can anyone recommend a good source for this ? Cheers.
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Remove label from solaris disk

As you know, any disk used in Solaris has to have a label (if there isn't any, you can just use "format"). My problem is I want to unlabel a disk for testing purposes. Is there any command that does this? Thanks!
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