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🇬🇧 Solaris LDAP Admin

Improved debugging in LDAP tools and nscd

Some of these improvements are not really new. They were in Solaris for years, however they were not really documented and while many people knew about them...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

Lock it up

This is a quite useful tool. Let's assume you are working with colleagues on a system on their desktop. They are working on their shells as unprivileged users,...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin Performance

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 a command with -E it shows...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin

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 at high speed....

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🇬🇧 Solaris SMF Admin

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....

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🇬🇧 Solaris SMF Monitoring

prstat -x

When looking at processes on your system, sometimes you ask yourself "Who the heck started this process?" Often it's a process started by SMF as part of a...

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