Changing timezone is different on x86 machines and on Solaris servers. I have listed the steps for both platforms below.
Solution for Solaris 10 x86:
As changing TimeZone on Solaris machine requires reboot, so plan a downtime and then plan the change activity. If one is changing only time, then one can use date command with required [...]
Job schedulers are used to run some job in user’s absenteeism. Cron and At are traditional unix job schedulers.
Cron can run scheduled jobs in a repetitive manner whereas At runs it once only one or after predefined interval.
Studying Cron:
Database files:
1. /var/spool/cron/crontabs : crontabs directory contains list of jobs in the form of file by [...]
Yesterday, I was asked to enable ssh and disable telnet on few Solaris 10 servers. For those who do not know the reason for this change activity, telnet is a bit dubiuos protocol and all the data sent over telnet is not secure. To keep a check on security aspect, use of ssh is recomended [...]
Mounts and Unmounts
In Solaris mounting process is used to attach individual file system to their mount points. These actions makes the file system accessible and available to the system and user.
Unmounting process detaches file system from mount point. This action makes file system unavailable and unaccessible for users and system.
Database Files:
/etc/vfstab : Whenever system [...]
Subscribe via RSS Feed stay updated with blog articles
Subscribe via email address:
