The Solaris Zones provide many benefits to the Technological solution that is going to be deployed. One of this benefits is that a Network Service can run inside a Zone, and avoid a large damage in case of a security breach due a newly discovered exploit or worm. The affected Zone would not affect the [...]

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ZFS is the new Solaris file System, it include many features and benefits that no other file system has. Filesystems where historically build over the physical devices. ZFS utilizes virtualized volumes, it aggregates devices into a storage pool. The storage pool has the information of the physical storage (device layout, data redundancy, etc).
Because of [...]

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Following i display the key possibilities to move arround a man page in Solaris.
You can see the uname man page for example:

$ man uname
Reformatting page. Please Wait… done

User Commands [...]

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The passwords protect the system from intruders, the users should change their passwords frequently to avoid no authorized security breaches.
The Solaris operating system passwords should have this characteristics:

Six (6) to Eight (8) characters

It should have almost two (2) alphanumeric characters and almost one numeric or special sign.
It should be different than [...]

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The UNIX (r) operating system was developed by AT&T Bell Labs in 1969, it was created as a combination of tools by developers for developers.
The developers of the California Berkeley did modifications to the original source code, and it was called Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix. The most important contribution from the Berkeley developers was [...]

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To disable a service you have to be root or have a sudo, for example, i want to disable nfs:
-bash-3.00# svcs | grep nfs
online 16:29:25 svc:/network/nfs/status:default
online 16:29:29 svc:/network/nfs/mapid:default
online 16:29:44 svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default
online [...]

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You have to share a directory in Solaris, may be, the home of the users, or a directory with binaries. With svcs the service status can be checked, so lets check the status of the nfs server:
-bash-3.00# svcs network/nfs/server
STATE STIME FMRI
offline [...]

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If you want to start solaris in text mode, it is easy:
-bash-3.00# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
Then reboot

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This kind of task is very frequent in the System Administrators day, what we are going to do is configure or modify the IP network address of a Server permanently, not just until the server is rebooted.
The key files for this task are:
/etc/inet/ipnodes
This files has the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, this file has to be [...]

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From Solaris 7 and newer version if you are going to use it without the NFS, when you want to create a user you may see this error:
# useradd -c “Walter” -m -s /bin/ksh -d /home/walter walter
ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: Operation not applicable.
To stop automount to mount the /home partition edit /etc/auto_master [...]

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