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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin

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...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

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...

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🇬🇧 Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

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🇬🇧 Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

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