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March 2, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Solaris boot disk copy

November 20, 2005 – 2:24 am
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A sample procedure for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2 on Solaris 8.

Increase swap space

November 19, 2005 – 11:15 pm
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Best Diets Overall 2023

If your goal is to manage your weight long term and eat healthfully, try one of these science-backed diets that work. Each earns top marks from our panel of leading medical and nutriton …

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November 19, 2005 – 10:39 pm

Here’s an example of how to mount a cdrom on Solaris from a remote ISO image via NFS.

Fsck operations

November 19, 2005 – 10:36 pm
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The following is a collection of examples using fsck command. It is important to unmount VXFS before running fsck on Veritas filesystem.