Anonymous FTP

• How do I setup an anonymous FTP server the long way or the Sun script way?

Backups

• How can I use fssnap to take file-system snapshots of active UFS file-systems?

Best Practices

• Sun's Best Practices Guide (pdf)

Boot

• Ever wonder what the box is doing before the banner and OBP prompt is displayed?

CD-ROM

• Sun CD-ROM FAQ

Chown

• How can I allow/prevent users from giving files away to someone else?

Clustering

• Want to do something to multiple machines at once? Use the Sun Cluster Console Tool. NOTE: you also need the scripts.jar.
• Need help with disk contention problems in a "shared" storage configuration?

DHCP

• Why doesn't my hostname get set (from /etc/nodename) when using DHCP?

Docs

• Sun documentation by product

E-mail

• Why won't my .forward file forward my e-mail?

Files

• How can I remove a file with a wierd character in the name?

FTP

• How can I change the ftp daemon's banner?
• Why can't I ftp to the box if I can telnet to it?

Hardware

• SunBlade 100 FAQ's and pictures.
• Sun's System Handbook

Hostid

• How can you replace your nvram chip or change your hostid?

Jumpstart

• I need help automating package installs.
• I need some help setting up jumpstart. article A article B article C
• Tips for Solaris 8 jumpstart.
• How would I add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image?

Kernel

• What are the different tunable kernel paramters for Solaris 2.3 - 2.6, 7 - 8?

Keyboard

• How can you remove the keyboard from a running machine?

Libraries (or the lack of them)

• Accidentally removed/renamed a critical library file and can't get it back?

Memory

• How can I tell what kind of memory I have in my Sun box without opening it? Use memconf. local copy and man page
• Why do I have more free memory after I upgrade to Solaris 8?

Modems

• How can I setup my external modem to... Go directly to Celeste's serial port resources pages.

NFS

• How can I fix the "Stale NFS file handle" error message? One of these tips should do the trick.
• Having problems unmounting a busy FS in Solaris 7 or 8?

Network

• If I have multiple NIC's, how can I do outbound load spreading for Solaris 8 or have redundant network connections? Sun Answerbook   SysAdmin article   Sun BluePrints article (pdf)
• Where can I find a FREE firewall program for Sol 8?
• How can I log or limit/deny certain hosts from telnet/ftp/etc. to my box? Download tcp-wrapper-7.6 locally or from the source.
• How do I manually change the hostname or IP?
  
  
• How do I set the NIC speed/duplex?
• How can I check what my current NIC speed/duplex settings are? Use this quick nic_check script.
• What kind of limitations are there on multiple NIC's?
• Ok, what about setting up trunking on a QFE card?
  
  
• How can I determine if an interface is in promiscuous mode?
• How do I interpret the output of netstat -k?
• How do I turn off replies to broadcast pings?
  
  
• Where can I find information about tuning my TCP/IP stack?
• I have heard that Solaris web servers are slow to serve MS clients? How can I speed up their access?
• What if I don't want to use the /etc/defaultrouter file?
• So what do those lights on the back of my FDDI card mean?
  
  
• How do interface groups differ from trunking?
• Why should I use interface groups?
• I want to know more about interface groups?

NIS

• Some info on protecting your NIS maps.
• Here is a nice method to secure NIS.

/dev/null

• How can I recreate /dev/null?

OS

• How can I tell if I am running in 32 bit or 64 bit mode?
• Which OS version am I running? cat /var/sadm/softinfo/INST_RELEASE OR cat /etc/release

Patches

• What are the various patch exit codes?

Power/CPR

• Why do I get some error message about /etc/power.conf?

Priority Paging

• What is priority paging and why do I need it? For one, it decreases application startup time.

Raid Manager

• Known bug with RM 6.22 results in the following error messages: "Auto configure failed" or "Wrong number of drives entered for the RAID level given"
• Think you have a failing power supply on your A1000/A3000?
• Some info on the different RM6 Controller States.
• Trying to run RM on Sol8? You need to read .
• Having long boot times (90mins) with >8 LUN support on A1000 and A3x00 configurations?

Rosetta Stones

• Compares: AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Redhat, Solaris, Tru64 (PDF)
• Compares: Everything and the kitchen sink (PDF)

SCSI disks/cdrom

• Need to add SCSI disks "hot" or make it see your cdrom (Solaris 7 and earlier)?     In Solaris 8, use cfgadm.

Security

• Here are some suggestions for securing Solaris.

Sendmail

• How can I change the sendmail banner?

SE Toolkit

• Where can I find the SE Toolkit?
• Please be careful when running virtual_adrian as it will make changes to the kernel following Adrian's rules.

Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager (SDS/SVM)

• It is hard to keep all these different names Sun assigns to everything straight. Where can I find a list?
• Where can I get the newest version of Solaris Volume Manager that supports soft partitions?
• Here is a nice doc on on soft partitioning. The only other docs are the man pages.
• How do I setup ODS? (basic)
• DiskSuite FAQ
• One technique for poor man's disk mirroring using ufsdump/ufsrestore.
• Another technique for poor man's disk mirroring using dd.

Stop-A, L1-A, break key sequence

• How can we create an alternate keyboard sequence for the BREAK signal on a dumb terminal?
• How do I prevent a spurious BREAK (includes terminal server reboot) signal from halting my Sun server? Cisco method (Workaround section) or the Stokely method
• How the different terminal servers stack up on this issue.
• How do I send the break sequence (aka STOP-A or L1-A) using my terminal program?
• Here is the explanation of the resistor between the pins fix and where it came from.

Storage Array

• Storage Array helpful tips

Su

• Need to log when someone uses su? Use this dummy su program instead.

Suspend

• How can I disable the power/suspend key?

Sys-unconfig

• Is your sys-unconfig broken in Solaris 8?

Tar

• Show me the easiest way to move files between directories using tar.
• How can I use wildcards when extracting only certain files from a tarfile?

Telnet

• How can I change the telnet banner?

Terminals

• How come my server won't boot until I connect my terminal to it?

Timezone

• How do I change the timezone my Sun server is in?

Uadmin

• What are all the options to uadmin?

UFS

• How can I enable UFS logging on Solaris 7 and later?

Veritas

• Top 10 FAQ's about Volume Manager.
• Veritas Crash Course (local copy)
• Veritas Cheat Sheet (local copy)
• How do I add a disk "hot" to Veritas?

VI

• How can I reverse a text file with vi?
• Can I delete blank lines in a file using vi?
• If I wanted to make the same change several times in file, use vi.

Video

• How can I print a list of all possible resolution/refresh rates for your screen?
• Would you like to set your display to 24 bit color?
• How can I use my PC's monitor for my Sun box?

Vold (Volume Management)

• Want to automatically play audio cd's or mount your Jaz drive?

X or Xdm

• How can I keep my Sun server from announcing that it will serve as an X server?