Archive for the ‘Solaris’ Category
Recently I have been spending some time learning about database technologies (Oracle Databases at Keste as well as MySQL on my own). Part of this I have decided to carry over into my existing work with Solaris, and go through the installation process using the Image Packaging System which is in Solaris. Now really the [...]
In Part One we went over the basics of sudo, what it is, why we use it, and how it is used properly. In this article we are going to take it a step further and look at specific use cases for sudo. The key thing to remember though, is that you have two ways [...]
What is Sudo? Prior to sudo whenever you wanted to run a command as a specific user then you would su (switch user) to gain access to a shell for that user. This of course required that you knew the password for that user, and it would spawn a new shell after successful authentication. The [...]
I personally use Crashplan for my cloud based backups (I have for over a year). I use them because they are one of a few (to be honest the only one) who actually have Solaris installers. The one downside of this is that they do not start the CrashPlanEngine by default (as a service). However [...]
Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of ZFS and get a little [...]