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Just the processing please

One of the many enhancements to well known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss for a command with -E it sh...

truss - just the interesting part ...

Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by in high speed. ...

Servicename in ps

Yesterday i wrote in “prstat -x” about the addition of a feature to show the FMRI of the service which the process is part of. ps got a similar enhancement. ...

prstat -x

When looking with processes on your system, sometimes you ask your self “Who the heck started this process? Often it’s a process started by SMF as part of a ...

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 31

SRU 31 of Oracle Solaris 11.4 has been published today. You will find more information about the changes here.

fsstat

The command fsstat (somehow a command relatively unknown when talking with customers) got a slight enhancement in an Solaris 11.4 SRU. Before this enhancemen...

Clean up after yourself

This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant t...