DHCP Client Management
The Solaris DHCP client does not require management under normal system operation. It automatically starts when the system boots, renegotiates leases, and stops when the system shuts down. You cannot manually start and stop the dhcpagent daemon. However, you can use the ifconfig command as superuser on the client system to affect the [...]

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Solaris is usually used as a server operating system. Because of this, you want to make sure that you shut the system down as gracefully as possible to ensure there isn’t any data loss.
For every application that is installed on your server, you should make sure that you have the correct scripts in /etc/rc(x).d to [...]

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Another complex combination.  To list line numbers on a file the cat command has an option, but the “nl” command has multiple formating options, something that the “cat” command doesnt.The -n specifies a format and “rz” right justifies with not leading zeros.
cat sourcefile.php | nl -n rz
To see the last 3 lines of any text [...]

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The scenario is that you have a compressed file with ZIP, and this is a raw text log file that you have to unzip and then to cat.
$ zcat messages.gz
You want to see only the first lines of a text file, for that is the head command.
$ head messages.log
And if you want to see the [...]

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Removing repeated lines in a text, the strategy to remove repeated lines in a text is not very intuitive at the first, the operation is divided in parts:
1) convert if possible all the lines to lowercase.2) sort the lines so repeated lines are together.3) remove repeated lines.

$ cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | tr [A-Z] [a-z] [...]

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This post is based on an email i’ve answered to a person from the Solaris Users list, so it is written in that context.
If you are using cpio to backup, you may want to check with the script the value returned by the backup operation and based on the returned value, send an email or [...]

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Today i have certified as Sun Solaris Administrator for Solaris 10.  I am very happy and would like to share with all of you my good day.  Here is a link for people that is in the way to certifying to measure they knowledge and to see if they are prepared, this on line assessments [...]

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A Flash Archive is basically a package with all the operating system configuration in a certain point of time (some kind of snapshot of the operating system) this package can be used to recover a system, to restore a backup, basicaly disaster recovery. This Flash Archive can be stored in any storage media (CD,DVD,Tape) [...]

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You can create a RAID 0, 1, 5 and 1+0 in Solaris by using SVM. You may also want to create a RAID-Z with ZFS which is highly recommended, it surprised me this advanced filesystem with its simplicity and power.

Read policies on Mirrors:
Round Robin : This is the default policy, reads are distributed across [...]

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This seems like the title of a novel from Dan Brown :-)  I would like to explain how NFS is composed:
Commands:

share [-F <fs>] [-o opts] [-d description] <path>
dfshares <hostname>
mount [-F <fs>] [-o opts] serverName:path mountPoint

Daemons:

nfsd : Handles filesystem exporting and file access (svc:/network/nfs/server:default)
mountd : Handles mount requests (svc:/network/nfs/server:default). Not used in NFSv4
lockd : Provides file [...]

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