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Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 2

As i wrote yesterday, there is an alternate way to configure zone console access. Let’s assume we want to give the user junior the authorization to access th...

Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1

When you wanted to access the zone console on Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old c0t0...

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it’s one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS, of how ZFS al...

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is ptree tool. With the -c option the contract id (the contract filesystem is one of t...

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. May be you may remember m...

Tales from the bike saddle: The distance between you and me

Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast … I mean really...

Enterprise Health Check

(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry) For a very long time there are some security...