Less known Solaris features: pfedit - editing is not everything

You have allowed junior to edit the httpd.conf and you are capable to monitor the changes with pfedit. However there is a little problem. She or he can’t restart the...

Less known Solaris 11.1 features: Auditing pfedit usage

You have allowed junior to edit the httpd.conf and and some nice evening, you are sitting at home. Then: You get alerts on your mobile: Webserver down. You log into...

::linkbuf for 17-Aug-2013

Brendan's blog » Memory Leak (and Growth) Flame Graphs

Less known Solaris 11.1 features: pfedit

It’s a really nifty feature: Let’s assume, you have a config file in your system and you want to allow your junior fellow admin to edit it from time to...

::linkbuf for 15-Aug-2013

Minimizing Memory Usage for Creating Application Subprocesses (tags: Solaris )

What to do with all the threads of modern SPARC CPUs

A whitepaper written by Ruud van der Pas, Jeff Savit, Jeff Victor, Darryl Gove, and Harry Foxwell: READ_ME_FIRST: What Do I Do with All of Those SPARC Threads?. Really worth...

Event Announcement: Solaris 11.1 Security

(As the events are in german language, i will proceed in this blog entry in german language as well. Sorry.) So … eine Reihe von Terminen für die Solaris 11.1...

Back in time - or: zpool import -T

A disclaimer first: I found an undocumented option of a Solaris 11.1 command. Again: This is an undocumented option. So: It can break everything. It will probably break everything. Because...

The "mutual assured destruction"-option

I’m playing around with Airmail for reading mails. While configuring this application, i saw the nuclear option to bring down any mail traffic in the company for days with “remove...

::linkbuf for 08-Aug-2013

Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS) The next big thing .... SSH via HTTP proxy in OSX (tags: tips macosx )

::linkbuf for 07-Aug-2013

Sprites mods - Hard disk hacking - Intro

9th birthday of c0t0d0s0.org

Just saw that i totally forgot the 9th birthday of c0t0d0s0.org on July 15th. However i spend most time that i would invest in my blog into the Solaris 11...

c0t0d0s0@DOAG Konferenz 2013

So … i have now the dates for my talks at the DOAG conference in Nuremberg. 19.11.2013 17:00: Kryptographie in Solaris 11 20.11.2013 16:00: Solaris 11 - Wenig bekannte Features...

::linkbuf for 03-Aug-2013

Nuclear apocalypse and the Letter of Last Resort. - Slate Magazine

Solaris talks

As the talks will be in german, from now on in Germany: Es gibt schon wieder eine Terminänderung: Mit ein bisschen Glück kann ich den Solaris 11 Security Talk auch...

Schedule change - Event Announcement for Hamburg and Berlin: Solaris 11.1 Security

Change in schedule: Hamburg is taking place on 11.09.2013 … dang …. HH talk on 9/11 … Berlin talk on Friday 13th ….

Event Announcement for Hamburg and Berlin: Solaris 11.1 Security

Just an early warning: I will hold a talk about Solaris 11.1 security on September 12th in Hamburg and September 13th as part of the Oracle Business Breakfasts series. More...

Event Announcement for Brussels: Solaris 11

Hi, on June 25th i will told a talk about the news in Solaris 11.1 in Brussels in the Oracle office. If you want to attend, just drop me a...

Event Announcement: Solaris 11 voor Systeembeheerders

On June 26th between 07:30 and 11:00 am i will hold a presentation about Solaris 11 for System Administrators in Utrecht in the Oracle Office. You will find more information...

Ulrich Gräf

Perhaps you’ve heard it from other sources, but there is sad news: Ulrich Graef, a great colleague and one of the luminaries of the german and worldwide Solaris community passed...