SchilliX is the first distribution based on OpenSolaris. It is a liveCD and can also be installed on a hard disk on the x86, AMD64 and EM64T based architectures.
According to SchilliX’s website these are the highlights:
Probably at this point you’ve heard a lot of hype regarding Solaris 10. Well, Ben Rockwood’s blog has a quick primer on Sun Solaris 10. Enjoy this nice introduction.
The ldd command lists the dynamic libraries used by a program. This utility is very useful to find out what shared libraries your executables depend on or to do some basic forensic analysis or to help you building chrooted jails.
Simply type this…
ldd /usr/bin/passwd
and you’ll get something like this…
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7fb5000)
libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0xb7fab000)
libpam_misc.so.0 => /lib/libpam_misc.so.0 (0xb7fa8000)
libcrack.so.2 => /lib/libcrack.so.2 (0xb7f9c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e87000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e83000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7feb000)
The OpenSSL Project is an Open Source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols as well as a cryptography library. In this tip I will show you how to encrypt an individual file using the openssl tool.
Probably GPG is a better choice for simple file encryption, but in some ocassions (i.e. encrypt without building keys or certificates) OpenSSL could be very useful. It’s very simple:
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in SuperSecretFile.txt -out SuperSecretFile.txt.enc
And your are done! Now to decrypt the file:
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in SuperSecretFile.txt.enc -out SuperSecretFile.txt
A note from the man pages.
use a salt in the key derivation routines. This option should *ALWAYS* be used unless compatibility with previous versions of OpenSSL or SSLeay is required. This option is only present on OpenSSL versions 0.9.5 or above.
This little trick will show you how to configure Apache to automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS, i.e. http://www.karkomaonline.com to https://www.karkomaonline.com.
Add this directives to you configuration file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R]
If you are new to Solaris world, don’t forget to add prtconf to your arsenal. This command provides you with information of your sistem configuration.
Simply type the following…
prtconf -v
If you have a Linux system, there is a tool that lets you examine and change ethernet based network interfaces.
The ethtool utility is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them. The basic usage is as follows:
ethtool eth0
…and you’ll get something like this:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown! (65535)
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: umbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0×00000007 (7)
Link detected: no
For more information take a look at man pages.
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