Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials

Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials is the first book to concisely yet comprehensively cover all of the breakthrough features of the Solaris 10 operating system

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Solaris 10 Desktop Screenshot, So ‘Cutie’

This is my own Solaris 10 Desktop running on Intel-based PC with Mac OSX like theme. Solaris developers in Sun Microsystem have been trying to make Solaris operating system a competitor of linux and claimed as the most advanced operating system on the planet

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Test IPv6 Implementation on Solaris (OpenSolaris) and Linux (Slackware)

This tutorial will try to implement IP Address version 6 on Opensolaris 2009.06 and Linux (Slackware 12.2). Both OS are already support IPv6 by default so we just enable/activate it.
The schenario of this test is using direct connection between the two OSes and using existing private IP addresses. IPv6 makes it very easy to assign existing addresses.

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How to edit crontab in Sun Solaris

First time I edited crontab file in Solaris was when I wanted to schedule my system to always synchronized to NTP server. It is set in the crontab file. On Linux and BSD, just run command “crontab -e” to edit the crontab.

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How to set/change timezone in Sun Solaris

I want to synchronize this machine to an NTP server but because the timezone was set to GMT, the time we get was not in Jakarta timezone (GMT+7), so this tutorial is writen to help you how to set the timezone to GMT+7

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How to install rp-pppoe on Opensolaris/Solaris 10 as a PPPoE client.

If you are familiar with Linux and using PPPoE to connect to your service provider, RP-PPPoE is the best tool for this purposes and easy to install because almost all Linux distros have its binary file

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