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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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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I needed to convert some ANSI screens to ASCII to capture some data, finally i had to hack a little with sed and regular expressions, this may help a lot of pleople with similar problems:

sed ’s/^\x20//g’ < test.log > test.2
sed ’s/\x1B\[[0-9]*;*[0-9]*.//g’ < test.2 > test.3

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Hard and Symbolic links are the two types of files that exist in a Unix Operating System to point to another file.
Hard Links: They are a pointer that is exactly as the same than the file it points to, no mather if it has a different name, any modification done to the pointer are also [...]

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Sun OpenSolaris supports currently 2249 systems. Sun has an updated list of all the supported hardware. The Hardware Compatibility List shows systems and peripherals which are compatible with the Solaris OS. There are 1064 systems [...]

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Here is a nice list of perl book available in Internet, they are open to public and can be read without paying, this is a nice initiative to give people with less acquisition power the possiblity to learn a language that with some effort can give you the possibility to know people and work together [...]

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Every user account in any unix system needs a unique username and a user identifier, known as UID. Every username has a home directory and a login shell. A username could also be member of a group and have a role.
The components of a unix user account are:
Unique username.
Password.
User Identifier (UID), it is [...]

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In Software Engineering the Client-Server model is applied in the distribution of work in a computer network. The Server is composed by software and hardware, its function is mostly to wait for work proccess requested by the client; and the clients role is to send requests to the Server, mostly through a computer network. [...]

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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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