This post outlines some of the post-installation tasks I usually perform after a fresh Solaris 10 installation. Note that this is my own approach and that it is based on …
This is an interesting point of view of Robin Goldfarb, a blogger from Sun’s blog hub. He points out why he and others from Sun consider Solaris to be less …
According to Sun, the new Solaris 10 5/08 release will be available on April 14, 2008. This new release includes a lot of improvements and new features. Take a look …
Xnest is a nested X server that I use in some cases to remotely access my Solaris 10 boxes. From Xnest man pages:
Xnest is a client and a server. Xnest …
This is a quick guide to install PHP4, MySQL4 and Apache2 in Solaris 10. In order to facilitate the management and installation of packages we will use the pkg-get tool. …
The next link will show you a set of wonderful features of the OpenSolaris and Solaris operating systems. This has been written by the Open Solaris Community: OpenSolaris Primer. Many …
One of the security enhancements that Solaris 10 provides is the ability to restrict the output of the ps command so that users can only see processes that they own.
So …
If you want to disable IP routing or packet forwarding in Solaris, simply create this file…
touch /etc/notrouter
Protect the file by issuing the next command:
chmod 400 /etc/notrouter
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 …