In my network i have setup a Linux DHCP Server and multiple Solaris machines who obtain all their network information though dhcp.  First in the Solaris machine i enable the dhcp client:

ifconfig pcn0 dhcp start

To release the IP and obtain a new one:

ifconfig pcn0 dhcp release
ifconfig pcn0 dhcp start

This is going to obtain the IP, [...]

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The Solaris Management Console is known as a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides administration tools and the possibility to manage computers remotely inside a network. But it is not only a nice graphical interface, it is a powerfull set of commands and a server application.
How to start SMC ?
/etc/init.d/init.wbem start
Solaris Management Console server [...]

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A package are files and directories grouped in a single entity.
A cluster is a logical collection of packages.
A Software group is a grouping of Packages and Clusters, these are selected in the installation, and individual packages can be uninstalled from a Software Group.
Now, which is the relation between Software Groups and their Cluster Name ?
This [...]

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Try your Solaris 10 knowledge !
This pre-assessment gives you an idea of how well you would perform on the following certification test:
Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Part 1) (CX-310-200).
http://www.sun.com/training/certification/assessment/200-S10intro.jsp

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SUN Microsystems has a bi-monthly patch report:
From this link:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=patchpage
You access this page:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-34-10_x86-1

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Part of the network setup in a Unix operating system is the configuration of the default gateway and the dns resolutions, this is what i want to show how it is done:
1) Setup default gateway:
Edit /etc/defaultrouter and set there the ip address from the gateway of your LAN/WAN.  The graphic is only illustrative.

2) Setup dns:
Edit [...]

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Implementing security in crontab is something easy to do because all the tools are already available with the operating system, this info is usefull in Solaris as in Linux, and probably many other *nix like systems.
To give or deny access to crontab, this means, give the user permission to modify its own crontab file (see [...]

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Files that have a dash at the start of their name have to be handled with special options because a dash is also used for arguments of the commands.  In this video i display some examples.

cat ./-ls
cat — -l
rm — -ls

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In Solaris are two possibilities to schedule processes, it depends on the nature of the scheduling objective that one method is used or the other.
The methods are “cron” and “at”.
Cron
This name is inspired in the Greek god of Crono, the god of human’s time (day, month, years, calendards).The Cron method is used if you need [...]

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