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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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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When processes are managed, two concepts come up, they are the Real and the Effective ID of the process. To detail the difference, you have to understand the Difference between setuid / setgid / sticky bits.
The Real ID is the ID of the user that started the process, suppose that the process was started [...]

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Something bad could happen if you delete /etc/vfstab by mistake and you do not have a backup, the system would not find the required partitions to boot, they are: root (/), /usr, and /var.
To recover it, if you realialized that the /etc/vfstab file has been deleted but do not rebooted yet, you can accomplish this [...]

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If you have already read the Managing patches in Solaris (Part I) and now you want to know more, keep reading ! This time i am going to explain how to remove a patch, this action restores the previously saved files (except that you used the -d option with patchadd).
The syntax is [...]

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could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard type US keyboard assumed
could not get keyboard type US keyboard assumed
This is caused by unix2dos, you may want to use:
-437 Use US code page
-850 Use multilingual code page
-860 Use Portuguese code page
For example:
unix2dos -437 file.log | uuencode file.txt | mailx -s “My Mail, file.log” yourmail@nospam.com

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