Archive for October, 2008

Unix: Package Administration in Solaris

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After installing the Solaris Operating Environment, it is necessary or some times essential to install additional software packages or remove software form the system. You need to apply new patch or package which can be used for security issue, performance issue, hardware related case or any other, but one must be comfortable with basic commands [...]

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Unix: Naming Conventions in Solaris

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In Solaris each disk device is described in three ways, using three distinct naming conventions:
1) Physical device name: Physical device names uniquely identifies the physical location of the hardware device on the system & maintained in the /devices directory. These physical names represent the full device path name in the device information hierarchy.
2) Logical device [...]

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FTP in Solaris

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a common tool for transferring files across network. Solaris contains various configuration files in the /etc/ftpd directory to control access to the FTP server. One of these files is a file named /etc/ftpd/ftpusers, which is used to restrict access via FTP. The /etc/ftpd/ftpusers file contains a list of login names [...]

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Top 5 priceless gifts for IT and web in modern time

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1. Unix : Off course majority of people are still working on Windows and no doubt it is best user oriented OS platform but the reliability and performance of UNIX has been one of the best thing to happen in the IT field. With many variants and UNIX based system available in market, user have [...]

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