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Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default how the home directory is created....

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage storage gets faster and faster, you may end in a sitation where the wsvc_t a...

gcore with less impact

This isn’t a everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of ea...

ps

Today i won’t write a blog entry explaining a feature. I would just like to guide your attention to an article at “Teaching an old ps command new tricks” wri...

Jitter and delay for svcbundle generated SMF manifests

Another extenstion to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services services. If you have something to start i...

svcbundle extended

svcbundle is an really useful tool to create SMF manifestes without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don’t have to work with XML at all , b...

Tales from the bike saddle - Step by step

When i worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO send a number of people to a training called “Leading without hierachical power” or as i called it “sho...