The Rgister has a very interesting article on Solarisx86 today Sun’s Linux killer shows promise The article is a very good read and points to some things that need working on however in one paragraph the author discussed Solaris Patching, and I’d like to elaborate on that a bit. This is an area where Sun’s […]

Recently I was installing a machine for someone. One of their requirements was to have sudo installed. Sudo, allows a given set of users to run a given set of commands as root. What this user wanted to use sudo for was so that they could use any command as root except halt, shutdown,reboot &

Some time ago I posted about what I had needed to do to get Solaris installed on my laptop. Well, the install went fine, but rather what extra bits I needed. Some folks in Sun have been working on a driver for the centrino wireless adapter, but up to now I’ve never managed to get

Are downloadble from http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/zos-s10 As was pointed out on comp.unix.solaris there are no clusters available yet. One tool that you might like to try for patch management on Solaris 10 is the new Sun Update tool. It will check for the latest updates and can be used on all your solaris boxes to keep them