Solaris

online resources

Scott Cromar @Princeton uni

Scott Cromar's blog

Sun's how to guides (opens in a new window)

Sun support and training' (opens in a new window)

Graphical interface

Lesser Known Solaris Features (opens in a new window)

Solaris 10 'bigadmin portal' (opens in a new window)

Service management (opens in a new window)(or PDF)

Tips from akadia.com (opens in a new window)

adminschoice.com (opens in a new window)

thoughtful solutions: Solaris course materials (opens in a new window)

sysunconfig.net - solaris tips (opens in a new window)

Sun developers FAQ about Locales (opens in a new window)

drivers and the kernel - presentation (opens in a new window)

fsck and what it does (opens in a new window; requires sunsolve logon)

fsck error messages (opens in a new window)

My solaris stuff

Solaris X

CDs and ISO images

Kernel

Resource limits

MYSQL

Networking

Rough notes

Open Solaris notes

Performance

service management facility

Solaris volume manager

VMWare

Veritas Volume Manager

x86 Disks

X.Org

ZFS

ZFS time machine

Solaris posts/news feed

Mon 16th Mar 2009:

Crontab: the first five fields combine to restrict the schedule. Except for when they don't.

If you complete both the 'day of month' and 'day of week' fields, cron is likely to behave exactly the way you expect it not to.

Tue 23rd Sep 2008:

Investigating SVM 'needs maintenance' state disks

Task map that assumes the disk is actually ok:

Earlier Stories

Complete archive on the official site