Category Archives: Solaris/AIX/HP-UX

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 to have a native unix command line interface … Continue reading

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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 UW IMAP. I downloaded the source package from: … Continue reading

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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 problem being no support for the Intel Pro … Continue reading

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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 is a requirement to dynamically add new resources … Continue reading

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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 replace the old hostname with the new one … Continue reading

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