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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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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin Performance

Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin

truss - just the interesting part ...

Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....

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