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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...

Tales from the bike saddle - Feeling/being superior to whom?

The film “Kingsmen” is totally over the top, somehow still fun and you learn from it. For example what the hell brogues are. That you should know how a bulld...

Even more new options for svcbundle

Another addition to svcbundle was the addition to set user group privileges to directly create manifests for SMF that didn’t need manual editing to ...

Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default how the home directory is created....

iostat and microseconds

Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage storage gets faster and faster, you may end in a sitation where the wsvc_t a...