Archives for December 2015

Sudo (super user do) command is a program for Unix / Linux Operating Systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (can be the superuser i.e root or any other user in the system). The sudo utility allows users defined in the /etc/sudoers configuration file to have temporary access […]

Storage requirements for servers (and applications) is constantly changing. It becomes very important to be able to allocate or deallocate space without interruption to service. This document provides some approaches to discovering new storage, without performing a reconfiguration reboot. This applies to internal and external disk drives as well as virtual disks. Most of the […]

A locale is a collection of files, data and sometimes code which contain the necessary information to adapt Solaris to a specific geographical market. A locale is essentially a “bundle”, containing information such as: 1. the messages displayed to the user (localized messages) 2. codesets 3. date and time formatting conventions 4. monetary conventions decimal […]

There are several different ways to check the link status(up/down) in solaris. Below are several methods, with examples, to check network link status of Ethernet interfaces in Solaris. Some of the methods like dladm were not available in solaris 8 and 9. In that case we can use kstat and ndd commands. 1. Checking /var/adm/messages […]