Solaris10 on VirtualBox
I installed Solaris10 11/06 on VirtualBox 1.5.6 OSE. The first problem immediately after installation I faced was that of mouse not being captured by virtual machine. So I open a terminal window…
ls ~/solaris/aix/hp-ux
Swap Space Management in Solaris
The swap utility provides an administrative interface to the management of the system swap areas. A standard swap partition which is not under the volume manager control cannot be resized, but swap…
Timezones in Solaris
The available timezones in solaris are listed in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/ To find out the current timezone on the system: grep ‘^TZ’ /etc/TIMEZONE and in order to change the timezone, modify the TZ line…
Changing the IP Address of a Solaris System
Use ifconfig to change the IP address immediately ifconfig If the new IP address calls for a different gateway then change it using the route command: route add default route del default…
Moving data to a seperate filesystem
Often its required that the a directory (for example /home)be moved to a seperate filesystem. The steps are simple: Boot system in single user mode (linux single), or if already booted take…