Installing Mutt on Mac OS X
Apple’s Mac OS X has a beautiful graphical user interface, but under that there is a solid unix foundation. OS X is based on FreeBSD. This unix foundation has allowed OS X…
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UW IMAP on OpenSolaris 2009.06
It is quite surprising that the opensolaris distribution does not come with an imap server in the standard repositories. I needed one and the simplest one to use is the one from…
OpenSolaris – Desktop Experience – Part 1
Installation Few days back I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my aging IBM R50e Thinkpad. My previous experience with OpenSolaris Solaris Express builds were not that great from desktop point of view. Primary…
Adding/Removing the Resources from a Running Solaris Zone
The zonecfg command is used to configure the zone. We can add and remove a resource from the solaris zone using zonecfg. Any change to zonecfg needs a reboot, but sometimes it…
Changing the Hostname of a Solaris System
On Solaris 10 the value in the /etc/nodename file is sufficient for setting the hostname of the system. The hostname of a solaris system needs a change in the following files. So…