You can make the executable search PATH variable persistent in several ways:

1. On the system level you can …
2. On a per user level, or for the user root, you can …

When discussing availability of a service, it is common to hear the term “Five Nines” referring to a service being available 99.999% of the time but “Five Nines” are relative.
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In reality, none of those calculations are relevant because no one cares if a service is unavailable for 10 hours, as long as they…

I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years.
I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me that…

I am a huge fan of Sun Microsystems.I love Solaris 10.I love ZFS.I love RBAC.I love zones.I really love T2/T2+ processors.I especially love the T5140 and X4450 servers.
One thing I cannot figure out though, is why Sun lets obviously delirious cocaine addicts package their software. Maybe I’m exaggerating but I think that many will…

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away.
In Linux I would instinctively go straight to iptraf. I don’t know if iptraf is the tool of choice these days but I’m…