Japanese and chinese on windows, linux, sun solaris. Oracle tried to make zone as completely independent virtual machines and they succeed on that. The zfs or ufs file system is hierarchical, starting with the root directory and continuing downwards through a number of directories. Solaris operating system data sheet solaris 10 overview oracle. Use pkgchk command which check package installation accuracy under solaris unix. Solaris 10 is the latest version of suns venerable flavor of unix. How to delete files on a zfs filesystem that is 100% full. To make it a systemwide change, edit etcsystem with following entries. Solaris is supposedly science fiction, but since it isnt really interested in explaining any of the science very clearly, much of it can also be interpreted as mystical, or even religious. In this article, jonathan sinclair points out some of them. Solaris find out a package which a file belongs to nixcraft. Create a zfs pool with a single disk be set to a user definable value.
Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to do more with less, roll out new business services. People who are planning to operate an oracle solaris system. The function of boot environment be is to create, delete, and replicate boot. For several major releases solaris has a really extensive auditing subsystem. The novel also includes a lot of kelvin summarizing scientific books about solaris, all of which say that scientists dont know anything about solaris. This way, i would not have to migrate anytime soon from 10 to 11 and can already make use of solaris 11 features in any scripts and.
Tcr watters 2229985 blind folio ii about the author paul a. Solaris 11 new features unix blog unix blog strings. Solaris represents a large percentage of these systems. He has worked as a solaris and ecommerce consultant for many corporate and nongovernmental entities in australia, designing systems and software on. How to setup and update nappit and omnios, openindiana, solaris or linux download 1. Getting familiar with some of the new features of solaris. Google displays the sites where a free download is available.
One technique for poor mans disk mirroring using ufsdumpufsrestore. Solaris 11 new features birkbeck, university of london. Archiving digital documents conversion of digitalborn documents to pdfa. But the success and the quality of this approach depends heavily on the available tools. The solaris fingerprint database a security tool for. Infos about nappit scripting, nappit file structure, modifications or debugging work in progress. Package now refers to a large group of relocatable packages as large as the entire solaris os. This solaris system monitoring tool allows to perform standard sar activity reporting and nmon activity reporting.
Solaris 10 allows you to lockout accounts after a certain number of failed logins. You still need the t option to ls if you want to list the files by date. Isbn01568191 richard and jim authored solaris internals. List of important files and directories in linux redhat. Dtrace and mdb techniques for solaris 10 and opensolaris prentice hall, 2006. The comparison of advantages and disadvantages among quasiunix systems is an ofttold tale. Let this sink in solaris 12s death is a good thing and this is why. Oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. The reason i have gone down this path is that i see the novice solaris user as being someone that will eventually become a system administrator and not someone that will be just clicking mouse buttons all day long.
Additional dot files can be found in the users home directory. Table 1 below lists some of the more common dot files that users should know about. I was wondering if anyone had a script to find files with a directory and through the subdirectory path that are of a large size or over a specified size so that i can avoid these problems ahead of time in the future. Upon request from many of our unix folks, i am trying to present some of the most useful configuration files for solaris os. However, this article looks into the three kernel subsystems of the latest operating system release. Solaris 10 features the zfs file system for superior data integrity, trusted extensions for advanced security, and.
The start of important services can be given a higher priority than that of less. Note that for the solaris cde gui to function properly, it is also necessary to enable. Solaris stashes some network configuration files in etc and some in etcinet. Solaris 10 has new features to manage nonlogin accounts and locked accounts which is no longer dainbread. Default solaris file systems system administration guide. The owner and group of the extracted files must also be modified to correspond to a system defined user and group id. A new type of zone container called kernel zones that behaves like a solaris optimized hypervisor. Then om sorts by decreasing modification time, and 1,10 restricts the expansion to the first 10 matches.
By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. How do i find out a package which a file belongs to. Whilst solaris may provide much of the functionality that is required for running gui based programs i think that linux is. Due to the sensitivity of the operations being performed by the md5programs, they should be owned by the rootuser. Never run any guioriented service or application on a system unless. The nmon output can be imported with excel or rrd to output simple and efficient graphs. A guide for system administrators mark brown chuck davis william dy paul ionescu jeff richardson kurt taylor robbie williamson a comprehensive reference for a quick transition presents a taskbased grouping of differences between the operating system environments additional content about how to optimize linux on ibm. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks.
There is a new readonly property keychangedate that shows that date and time of the last wrapping key change basically the last time zfs key c was run on the dataset, this is similar to the rekeydate property that shows the last time we added a new data encryption key. Configuring the solaris cluster data service for network file system nfs 68. Zfs is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by sun microsystems. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data compression, raid, and data encryption. Prince proprietary, linux, mac, windows, solaris, converts html, xml, svg, and mathml to pdf by way of css. It uses smf to manage the configuration state of many services. By the way, i hope you can help me further on this.
Solaris performance features top features solaris solaris 10 solaris performance observability bylayer strategy 3metric strategy system components. All settings apply to both sparc and x86 unless explicitly. Managing name services formerly known as etcnf oracle solaris 11 is leaving the svr4 file based system administration of solaris 10 behind. As solaris 10 is four years old now and solaris 11 is rumoured to be released mid 2010 and the first release of our software is planned to be in spring 2010, solaris 11 might be more interesting than solaris 10. The oracle solaris io multipathing feature mpxio, which is also known as storagetek.
Many are duplicated through the magic of symbolic links, with the actual files living in etcinet and the links in etc. How can i use fssnap to take file system snapshots of active ufs file systems. In the last post i discussed that the golden image approach still has its advantages even if you use configuration management frameworks like puppet. The system allows for the sharing of processing power and peripheral resources, white at the same time providing excellent security features. Clarkes, to create believable accounts of futuristic technology, but the books central. Powerful cd command hacks cd is one of the most frequently used. Unix is a multiuser system designed to support a group of users simultaneously.
The output may have some special characters here and there. Oracle solaris 11 delivers groundbreaking features for fast, secure and reliable. It shows all the text in the pdf file clearly, but ignores the images. Hey guys, just bought a second 5tb portable drive and added to my unixsystem. Up to 8192 partitions even without hardware or firmware based partitioning features. The solaris installation process enables you to install a default set of directories and uses a set of conventions to group similar types of files together. Zfs is scalable, and includes extensive protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copyonwrite clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, raidz. Richard and jim with brendan gregg authored solaris performance and tools. Introduction this presentation is an introduction to the field of solaris performance. Solaris 12 disappears from oracles roadmap the register.
Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Solaris networking solaris basic network configuration solaris comes with a bounteous supply of startup scripts. Less known solaris features joerg moellenkamp february 21th, 2010. This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage portable document format pdf. In short, solaris is not just one book in which not much happens. Unix uses a hierarchile file structure to store information.
Kernel comparison of opensolaris, windows vista and linux 2. The new blueprint pdf, or here on our servers if oracle takes it down dated january, 2017 omits any word of solaris 12 that oracle included in the same documents 2014 edition. Solaris advanced users guide sun microsystems, inc. D, is a senior lecturer in the department of computing at macquarie university. The early versions of suns unix were known as sunos, which is the name used for the core operating system component of solaris. Oracle introduced many utilities and new features in solaris 11 local zones. Introducing oracle solaris 11 express whats new for system. A search here revealed scant results and web searches are providing me with ambiguous information. Solaris 10 new features andreas polze ap 0608 virtualization technology solaris containers the software partitioning function provides multiple independent finegrain os environments in the server. Ipmp transitive probing for less restrictive availability. Oracle solaris 11 zones secure, lightweight virtualization scales to 100s of zones node delegated administration zfs datasets, boot environments observability via zonestat solaris 10 zones nfs server network stack isolation and resource management coengineered with installation, security.
Wellknown for the innovative technologies that it integrates, oracle. Simple and fast solaris installation with unified archives. These are used by software developers to add and create pdf features. Configuring and administering network components in oracle. On solaris you can set this parameter to be a hard or soft limit systemwide or you can do the same for a specific application so that it has the correct number of open file descriptors in its runtime space. The first one has been running great for a year without any issues. Contents 4 configuring and administering network components in oracle solaris 11. Oracle finally wised up about operating system names, and made the decision to follow a version strategy that may other software companies have figured out, and are keeping the major number at 11.
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