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 the...
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Authorizations for Zone Console access - Part 1
When you wanted to access the zone console on a Solaris system as a normal user in the past, you needed an authorization. You may remember from a very old...
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...
ptree with service names
A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...
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. Maybe you remember my...
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...